The Developer’s Toolkit: Your Essential Open-Source DevTools

Nathan Tarbert
Wing Cloud
Published in
3 min readFeb 8, 2024

Every developer needs a toolkit to streamline their workflow, increase productivity, and tackle some of the most complex tasks efficiently.

This could be development, testing, or project management, having the right tools in your back pocket can make or break your development process.

Let’s take a look at some of my favorites, and I hope they become your favorites too!

Let’s get started!👇

1. Wing

  • 🔥 A programming language for the cloud
  • 🔥 A unified programming model combining infrastructure and runtime code into one language

Please star ⭐ Wing

2. Inbox Zero

  • 👉 Clean Up Your Inbox In Minutes
  • 👉 Newsletter cleaner, AI automation, cold email blocker, and analytics

Please star ⭐ Inbox Zero

3. Papermark

  • 🚨 The Open-Source DocSend Alternative
  • 🚨 Share pitch decks, sales proposals, and other docs securely with real-time analytics and white-labeling options

Please star ⭐ Papermark

4. Aptabase

  • 📣 Analytics for Apps
  • 📣 Works with the framework of your choice! (JS | NextJS etc.)

Please star ⭐ SoapUI

5. Documenso

  • 🚀 The open-source document signing
  • 🚀 Integrates with all your favorite tools — Send, connect, receive, and embed everywhere

Please star ⭐ Documenso

6. Flipt

  • ⚡ GitOps-enabled feature management platform for modern engineering teams.
  • ⚡ Follow modern DevOps best practices such as trunk-based development, continuous delivery, and software kill switches all without needing to restart your applications.

Please star ⭐ Flipt

7. OpenStatus

Build trust:

  • ✨ Showcase your reliability to your users, and reduce the number of customer service tickets.

Custom domain

  • ✨ Bring your own domain, and give the status page a personal touch.

Please star ⭐ OpenStatus

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Nathan Tarbert
Wing Cloud

Community Engineer - Wing Cloud | Content Creator | Dev | Geek | alum: snyksec