Community-sourced tools for the DevRel industry. Brought to you by The DevRel Collective.
- lithium.com: Lithium social media software provides on-demand, hosted forums, chats for businesses. Solve your social media marketing problems and learn more today!
- answerhub.com: Q&A Solution based on the idea of Stack Exchange
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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
- gelato.io: A tool for creating and maintaining excellent Developer Portals and API or Technical Documentation
- readme.io: Create beautiful product and API documentation with our developer friendly platform.
- apimatic.io: Developer Experience Platform for your Public/Private/Internal APIs
- slate: Beautiful static documentation for your API (slate example: developer.tradegecko.com)
- 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
- swagger.io: Swagger is the world’s largest framework of API developer tools for the OpenAPI Specification(OAS), enabling development across the entire API lifecycle, from design and documentation, to test and deployment.
- stoplight.io: StopLight, providing engineering teams with the best way to document, test, and build web APIs
- openapis.org: Open API Initiative
- Haxor: Haxor is the platform for developer experience feedback. Learn how to improve your DX by watching developers build with your product.
- NomNom: 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.
- Sarahah: Lets your developer communities, friends or coworkers come with anonymous, constructive feedback on you. Risk of trolls, chance for gold.
- 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).
- gifbrewery.com (for Mac): Creating fine-crafted GIFs for Mac users worldwide.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- gitpitch.com: Create compelling slideshow presentations in no time using the tools you already know and love ~ Markdown + Git
- deckdeckgo.com: Create presentations that work as standalone apps at any device, everywhere (see example video)
- 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.
- CFP Land: Sends a weekly newsletter of CFPs and Tweets them about a month before they’re due. Also has a large, filterable list of open CFPs, and a blog full of speaker stories.
- vmbrasseur/Public_Speaking: A big open source list of conference speaking tips.
- Speaking.io: Zach Holman’s collected tips for public speakers in tech.
- Tulu.la - Curated list of tech events and open CFPs. Friendly community and speaker support champions. Community-driven.
- 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
- EvMan: An open-source tool for your team to manage events, from CfPs to participants. A hosted version is available via evman.io.
- Zoom.us: Great service for hold and record videocalls. Also saves any chat messages into a separate file.
- HooToo Wireless Travel Router
- RAVPower Wireless Travel Router
- Timular time-tracking app
- PlanckEZ: Compact, travel-friendly mechanical keyboard.
- 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).
- Travelpro Maxlite 5 21": Great roller bag, which just seems to continue to take all of the stuff I want to throw in it.
- RiutBag: Profile themselves as the original anti-theft backpack. 🤷
- Travelpro Crew Executive Choice 2
- Peak Design Everyday Backpack
- REI RuckPack 28: Primarily would be a day pack, but works really well as a work backpack, with the ability to be used for a short 2-3 day trip as well. Only downside is if you have a long torso.
- Timbuk2 Q Laptop Backpack
- Traveling Salseros: Great, thorough reviews of travel gear.
- My travel habits, by Anonymous Hash
- @QuinnyPig's conference speaking megathread (unrolled twitter thread)
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