NavX Developer Directory

The default tech feed. Comments often beat the article.

Invite-only link aggregator. Far less noise than HN.

A daily batch of new products. See what others ship.

In-depth tech reporting that skips the hype cycle.

Startup and funding news. Light on technical detail.

Independent benchmarks of model quality, speed and price.

A model leaderboard from blind head-to-head voting.

The main home for open models and datasets.

One API key for many providers. Easy to compare prices.

Run open models via API, billed by the second.

Paste your error message; the answer is usually here.

Busy front-end and full-stack chatter. Broad, not deep.

Developer blogging platform. Mostly beginner-level posts.

Developer blogging with custom domain support.

Indie founders on revenue and growth, not on code.

The reference for web standards and browser behavior.

Dozens of API docs in one UI. Works offline.

One-page cheat sheets for when syntax slips your mind.

Concise syntax cheat sheets with a clean layout.

Check browser support for any CSS or JS feature.

Skim a whole language through one annotated file.

Example-driven man pages. Much faster than the real ones.

Google's guides on web performance and best practices.

Learning roadmaps by role. For planning, not lookups.

A legally free programming book list, sorted by language.

The default for code hosting, with the deepest ecosystem.

Full CI/CD built in, and the CE edition self-hosts.

Non-profit Forgejo hosting. No ads, no tracking.

The main JavaScript registry. Check versions and deps.

A TypeScript-first registry. ESM only.

See what a package costs your bundle before installing.

Compare downloads and upkeep across packages.

Flags suspicious behavior and supply-chain risk in deps.

Runs full Node projects in the browser. Boots instantly.

A near-local online IDE. Good for reproducing issues.

Front-end snippets, easy to share and to browse.

Multi-language runtime with collaboration and deploys.

Browser-based API testing. Nothing to install.

The industry standard for API testing. Powerful, heavy.

A throwaway URL that shows exactly what gets posted.

Live regex testing that explains what each part matched.

Premium CN2 GIA routing into mainland China. Lowest latency, highest price.

Yearly plans under $20. Modest specs, fine for small always-on services.

Hourly billing — spin up and destroy freely. Built for short-lived tests.

30+ regions, fast provisioning, hourly billing, clear docs.

The most compute per dollar. EU and US only; routing to Asia is mediocre.

The friendliest console and docs. Costs more — a good first server.

Free ARM instances. Sign-up often fails; VMs can be reclaimed.

At-cost renewals with zero markup — but transfers only, no new registrations.

Cheap first year, transparent renewals, free WHOIS privacy and SSL.

Established and full-featured. Renewals cost well above year one.

Low renewal prices that stay flat, free WHOIS privacy. Dated interface.

Namecheap's newer brand. Similar pricing, far cleaner interface.

Widest TLD selection, loudest promos, heaviest upsells.

Strong backorder and auction tooling for domain trading.

CDN, DNS and WAF on the free plan — enough for most personal sites.

Cheap per-GB pricing with wide POP coverage. Good for images and video.

Free open-source CDN serving straight from npm and GitHub.

Direct links to any npm package — the fastest way to try one version.

Unmetered bandwidth, pairs naturally with Workers and R2. This site runs on it.

Best preview deploys, built for Next.js. Costly past the free tier.

Static hosting with forms and auth built in. Build minutes are capped.

Easy long-running services and databases. No free always-on tier.

Free web services that sleep when idle — expect a slow cold start.

Runs your containers close to users. Suited to stateful workloads.

Edge TypeScript with near-zero cold starts. Smaller ecosystem than Node.

One-click deploys, many templates. Chinese docs and support.

Postgres plus auth, storage, realtime. Open source. Runs this site.

Serverless Postgres. Branch a database like a git branch.

Distributed SQLite. Fast edge reads; writes still go to one primary.

Per-request Redis and Kafka. Cheaper when traffic is bursty.

MySQL with non-blocking schema changes. The free tier is gone.

Open-source backend suite — database, auth and functions. Self-hostable.

Database and backend functions in one place, end-to-end typed in TypeScript.

Transactional email API with React templates. Used by this site.

S3-compatible with zero egress fees — that is the whole pitch. This site uses it.

Lowest per-GB price; egress is free when fronted by Cloudflare.

The de facto standard with the deepest ecosystem. Egress is expensive.

Self-hosted, S3-compatible storage that runs on your own machines.

Open-source, cookie-free analytics. Self-hostable, ~2KB script.

Lightweight, privacy-first analytics. Paid hosted plan, or self-host it.

The most complete and most complex. Free; you handle privacy.

Free heatmaps and session replay — watch how people actually click.

Error tracking that points at the exact line and the stack at the time.

Free uptime checks for 50 endpoints every five minutes.

Uptime monitoring plus log aggregation, with polished status pages.

Screens from real shipped apps, organized by user flow.

Designer shots. Long on concepts, short on shipped work.

Adobe's portfolio network. Full case studies, not just shots.

Awards for cutting-edge web design. Heavy motion, slow pages.

Landing page gallery, filterable by industry.

A curated web gallery leaning minimal and typographic.

A tight selection of cutting-edge sites, updated often.

High-quality free photos. Artsy, and heavily reused.

Free photos and video for commercial use. No attribution.

Huge and varied. Also has vectors and sound effects.

Vectors and PSD templates. The free tier needs attribution.

CC0 photos with a clean, ad-free search.

Shopify's free stock photos, skewed to e-commerce.

Free background video, made for hero sections.

Free video, music and sound effects. Commercial use OK.

Open-source flat illustrations with a live color picker.

Recolor them, and animate parts before exporting.

Hand-drawn illustrations and icons. Partly free.

One search across 100+ icon sets. This site uses it.

Consistent line icons. This site uses them.

Icons from the Tailwind team. Pairs well with Tailwind.

Monochrome brand logos in SVG, with official hex values.

Six weights, so icons can match your text weight.

A large free line-icon set, close to Feather in style.

Free web fonts. Self-host them if China access matters.

Free-for-commercial fonts from Indian Type Foundry.

Hit space for a new palette. Fastest way to start.

Preview a palette on a real page layout instantly.

Generate a full Tailwind scale from one hex value.

Check whether a color pair passes WCAG contrast.

Free commercial-use music, no attribution required.

Community sound effects. Licensing varies per clip.

Free sound effects, well categorized, no sign-up.

Free music for video creators. Monthly download limits.

A very large SFX library. The free tier needs credit.

Subscription library with clean licensing for YouTube.

In-browser compression with side-by-side codec compare.

Drag-and-drop lossy compression for PNG and JPEG.

One-click background removal. Free output is low-res.

Shrink SVGs with per-option control and live preview.

Photoshop in a browser tab. Opens PSD files directly.

One image into a full favicon set plus the markup.

Converts between many file formats. Free size limits.

Merge, split, compress and convert PDFs.

My own local-only toolkit. Files never leave the browser.

Converts between formats: JSON to types, HTML to JSX.

A grab-bag of developer utilities. Self-hostable.

Chain encoding, crypto and data ops into a pipeline.

Renders JSON as a graph. Fast way to read deep nesting.

Turn a code snippet into a shareable image.

Hand-drawn whiteboard. Good for architecture sketches.

Translates a cron expression into plain English.

Anthropic's model. Strong on long documents and code.

OpenAI's assistant, with the widest ecosystem.

Google's multimodal model, wired into Google services.

Open weights, strong reasoning and code, very cheap API.

xAI's model, with live access to content on X.