Community-sourced tools for the DevRel industry. Brought to you by The DevRel Collective.
- Awesome DevRel
- Table of Contents
- Community forums
- Static sites generator
- Podcasting
- Workshop training
- Meeting scheduler
- Virtual Events
- Analytics and CRM
- Developer portals and documentation
- API documentation
- Product feedback
- GIF creation
- Video recording and live streaming
- Form creation
- Presentation engine
- Real time interactions
- CFPs and Speaking Resources
- Websites to Publish Articles
- Other
- Hardware
- Travel Tools
- Community Management
- Articles
- Events
- LICENSE
- Resource Templates
- Thanks to all the contributors ❤
- discourse.org: Open-source, community-minded forum software
- vanillaforums.com: Vanilla offers a highly brandable and extensible solution for support, Q&A and ideation forums.
- Answer: A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it’s a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Answer.
- netlify.com: Deploy modern static websites with Netlify. Get CDN, Continuous deployment, 1-click HTTPS, and all the services you need. Get started for free.
- Cloudflare Pages: Cloudflare Pages is a JAMstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites.
- GitHub Pages: You can create a website directly from a repository on github.com.
- Azure Static Web Apps: Streamlined full-stack development from source code to global high availability
- datocms.com: DatoCMS is an API-based administrative area for your static websites. Use your favorite website generator, let your clients publish new content independently, host the site anywhere you like.
- gohugo.io: Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.
- jekyll: Jekyll is a popular, open source static site generator.
- gatsby: Gatsby is a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps
- middleman: The static site generator behind Slate
- Vercel: Deploy any static site (Next.js, Jekll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc) for free.
- Render: Free static sites. Global CDN, managed TLS certs, PR previews, custom domain or
.onrender.comsubdomain. More details. - Kinsta: Free static site hosting for pre-built static websites and modern static site generators using Node.js. Integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, deploy to the Edge at 260+ CDN locations.
- anchor.fm: Anchor is the easiest way to hear, share, and create audio worthy of your ears. Broadcast voice, mix in music from Spotify and Apple Music, and take call-ins from your listeners. All from your phone.
- mixlr.com: Mixlr is a simple way to share live audio online. Broadcast using any source and invite people to listen and chat in real-time.
- zencastr.com: Zencastr is a web app to record your remote interviews in studio quality with a separate track per guest
- transistor.fm: Transistor provides podcast hosting and analytics and supports multiple podcasts under one account fee so you can spin up as many podcasts as you want. In addition to simple instructions for submitting your RSS feed to Spotify, Apple and other big directories, you get a customizable website, shareable and embeddable player, and API access. Private Podcasts are great addons for Memberships or Patreon Perks.
- github.com/jpetazzo/container.training: This repository contains materials (slides, scripts, demo app, and other code samples) used for various workshops, tutorials, and training sessions around the themes of Docker, containers, and orchestration.
- Glitch.com: Glitch is a really useful tool to collaborate, code and ship apps on the web. It offers value for DevRel folks especially in lowering the adoption barrier, creating embeddable running-code in documentation/blogs and live coding for free.
- Google Codelabs: Codelabs are interactive instructional tutorials, which can be authored in Google Docs using some simple formatting conventions. You can also author codelabs using markdown syntax.This is very handy during workshops and enablement sessions.
- CodePen: CodePen.io is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration.
- CodeSandbox: Create, share, and get feedback with collaborative sandboxes for rapid web development.
- Tuple: The best remote pair programming app on macOS.
- RunKit: RunKit is a node playground in your browser.
- Observable: Explore, analyze, and explain data. As a team.
- Jupyter: Project Jupyter develops open-source software, open standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages.
- replit: Code, create, and learn together.
- CoScreen: Collaborative screen sharing and video chat. One click to share and co-edit any window. Bring your team closer to you.
- claralabs.com: Clara is your partner in doing great work - a virtual employee that schedules your meetings.
- calendly.com: Say goodbye to phone and email tag for finding the perfect meeting time with Calendly. It's 100% free, super easy to use and you'll love our customer service.
- x.ai: AI scheduled meetings for smarter work days. The future is here.
- vyte.in: Schedule meetings 10x faster
- Cal.com: Open source Calendly
- Icebreaker: online networking tool, like chat roulette but for online events
- Brella.io: event matchmaking, engament, etc
- Gather.town: Gather is a video-calling space that lets multiple people hold separate conversations in parallel, walking in and out of those conversations just as easily as they would in real life
- Spatial.chat: Video chat conversations that recreate real-life social interactions
- Butter: Butter is a video conferencing tool that empowers facilitators to run interactive, buttery smooth online workshops.
- flat.social: Fun & highly interactive virtual spaces for online meetings & socials
- Virtual Event Starter Kit: Free, open-source template using Next.js and Vercel
- Moesif Developer Relations Management: Understand API adoption and keep developers informed automatically.
- Savannah CRM: Understand your Community better across multiple sources, track engagement and contributions.
- GetSphere: An open source, community-driven platform that empowers you to track, engage, and grow your community across multiple platforms. Built on the foundation of Crowd.dev, GetSphere is committed to putting community first.
- developerhub.io: Documentation tool to write, publish, review, analyse and collect feedback on personalised customer-facing API docs.
- readme.io: Create beautiful product and API documentation with our developer friendly platform.
- apimatic.io: Developer Experience Platform for your Public/Private/Internal APIs
- readthedocs.org: Create, host, and browse documentation.
- widdershins: OpenApi / Swagger / AsyncAPI / Semoasa definition to Slate / Shins compatible markdown
- gitbook.com: Modern documentation format and toolchain using Git and Markdown
- raneto.com: Markdown powered Knowledgebase for Nodejs
- docusaurus.io
- MadCap Flare
- Nextra: Write docs with Markdown/MDX and Next.js
- Mintlify: Modern standard for public facing documentation. Beautiful out of the box, easy to maintain, and optimized for user engagement.
- stoplight.io: StopLight, providing engineering teams with the best way to document, test, and build web APIs
- openapis.org: Open API Initiative
- Postman: Use Postman's API documentation feature to generate beautiful, machine-readable documentation for your API and automatically keep it up to date.
- Insomnia: Deliver high quality APIs through standards and collaboration with the Insomnia API design platform.
- Haxor: Haxor is the platform for developer experience feedback. Learn how to improve your DX by watching developers build with your product.
- EnjoyHQ: When your team wants to discover customer problems, do research for a new feature, collect evidence for your next sprint planning, share research findings and more, NomNom has your back.
- UserVoice: User feedback software to help you listen to your customers, focus product development efforts on features that matter, and innovate efficiently.
- HotJar: Record and replay onboarding flows. Cheaper than FullStory.
- Cockos LICEcap (for Windows): LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below).
- EZGif: Online Gif editor - crop, add text, trim, add effects, censor - all online.
- gifcurry (for Linux/Mac): Gif editor to add text, trim, and add other effects.
- gifbrewery (for Mac): Creating fine-crafted GIFs for Mac users worldwide. Note: No longer in development
- gifsicle: Optimize and edit GIFs for sharing.
- GIPHY Capture (for Mac): Allows you create and edit GIFs through screeen capture, also can add captions and control pixel size
- Kap (for Mac): Capture screen areas and save as GIF, MP4, etc. Free and open source.
- Peek (for Linux): Capture screen area and save as GIF or video formats.
- terminalizer: Record terminal sessions and save to GIF.
- obsproject.com: Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
- OBS Ninja: Bring live video from your smartphone, remote computer, or friends directly into OBS or other studio software.
- screenflow.com: Video editing and screen recording software for Mac
- GitDuck.com: Online screen recording and live streaming tool with built-in code sharing. Create instantly shareable videos linked to commits.
- Loom: Record your screen, audio and camera in one click. Loom hosts the video for you and you can easily share the link with publicly or with colleagues.
- StreamYard: StreamYard is a live streaming studio in your browser. Interview guests, brand your broadcast, and much more. Stream directly to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms.
- Restream: Restream allows you to stream live to 30+ social platforms at once.
- Zoom.us: Great service for hold and record videocalls. Also saves any chat messages into a separate file.
- typeform.com: Build beautiful, engaging, and conversational online forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages, and much more
- shwr.me: Shower HTML presentation engine (Jekyll support)
- reveal.js: The HTML presentation framework
- slides.com: Make better presentations. Slides is a place for creating, presenting and sharing slide decks.
- deckdeckgo.com: Create presentations that work as standalone apps at any device, everywhere (see example video)
- Slidev: Slidev aims to provide the flexibility and interactivity for developers to make their presentations even more interesting, expressive, and attractive by using the tools and technologies they are already familiar with.
- SliDesk: SliDesk allows you to focus on your content. You write your slides with MarkDown. An ecosystem exists for components and plugins.
- kahoot.com: Game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Useful for real time surveys
- sli.do: A simple platform that enables live polling, crowdsourcing questions and brainstorming ideas.A mobile-friendly interface that lets participants join via a custom event-code
- Confs.tech: Open source, shows both conferences coming soon as well as CFPs. They also have an email newsletter.
- CallingAllPapers: Open source aggregator that grabs conferences from several sources. They also have a free API.
- vmbrasseur/Public_Speaking: A big open source list of conference speaking tips.
- Speaking.io: Zach Holman’s collected tips for public speakers in tech.
- SeeCFP: CFP list and email notification.
- Tech Daily CFP: Sends a daily newsletter of CFPs.
- Developers Conferences Agenda/list - A list of worldwide conferences since 2017 with date and location
- Sessionize - Awesome tool for Call for Papers, Schedule and Speaker Management.
- dzone
- hackernoon
- Hashnode
- medium: medium publications are the core value of medium e.g.:
- The New Stack
- Java Code Geeks: including related sites specifically
- jaxenter
- earthclassmail.com: Get the best virtual mail and address solution for your business. Now you can scan, sync to cloud storage, deposit checks and much more. Try it risk-free
- Nice comparison of various mics
- Blue Snowball Ice
- Blue Yeti
- SHURE SM7B
- UR22C RECORDING PACK
- Electro-Voice RE320 AND Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface
- Rode Procaster Broadcast Vocal Microphone
- Timular time-tracking app
- Mogics Travel Bagel: Compact 4x plug + 2x USB power adapter for any country to any country
- Osprey Porter 46: Works as a backpack style suit case, can easily fit clothes for an entire week when expanded while being able to compress for daily use (laptop, accessories).
- RiutBag: Profile themselves as the original anti-theft backpack. 🤷
- Peak Design Everyday Backpack
- Timbuk2 Q Laptop Backpack
- Traveling Salseros: Great, thorough reviews of travel gear.
- GitHub Open Source Guides: Open Source Guides is a collection of resources for individuals, communities, and companies who want to learn how to run and contribute to an open source project.
- Contributor Covenant: A Code of Conduct for Open Source Communities
- Commsor Blog: Thoughts and insights on community, marketing, and creating connections.
- CMX Newsletter
- Blog: What 3rd party events are interesting for my DevRel organisation? by @floord
- Blog: How to make the most out of sponsoring an event by @floord
- A corporate DevRel program for honoring open source contributions
- CommonRoom: Community growth platform
- crowd.dev: Find high-intent accounts in your developer data (GitHub repo)
- Blog: A Step-by-Step Guide to Hosting Inclusive Developer Meetups or Events In Your Office by @SarahJaneMorris
- Video: Inclusive and Accessible Events by @hnky
- Video: Event Accessibility
- My travel habits, by Anonymous Hash
- @QuinnyPig's conference speaking megathread (unrolled twitter thread)
- An adaptable framework for preparing a strategy planning session for your devrel team
- A DevRel approach to prioritising events on dev.to
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