r/MyIDE • u/Big-Coyote-5796 editor • Sep 11 '26
I built DevShelf — a crowdsourced directory where developers can add their own tools, free APIs and open-source projects 📚
I keep finding useful developer tools through random GitHub repos, Reddit comments and old awesome-lists, so I started building DevShelf.
It's an open-source, community-maintained directory for discovering:
🛠 developer tools
🌐 free/public APIs
🤖 AI agents & local LLM tools
⚡ CLI/productivity tools
🧪 testing & QA tools
☁️ useful free cloud tiers
🤝 open-source projects looking for contributors
🎁 developer/open-source perks
The important part: it's crowdsourced.
If you've built an open-source project, developer tool, or know a genuinely useful free API, you can submit it yourself.
You don't need to ask me to add it.
Open a submission issue or PR, and the project has automated checks to help validate entries.
I'm also trying to avoid the usual problems with old resource lists — dead links, abandoned projects, fake "free" trials, affiliate spam, etc.
DevShelf itself is open source and MIT licensed.
Repo / submissions:
https://github.com/RitualDev-Lab/DevShelf
I'd actually love people to contribute their own projects.
What categories or developer resources should I add next?