Reading List

This is an evolving reading list of interesting articles, blogs posts, tools, ideas for Startups, SaaS, DevOps and Azure Public Cloud.

Key

🔍 Looks interesting, not tried it yet…

💥 Tried it, like it

❌ Tried it, don’t like it

General

🔍 Claim-Check pattern: For working around Function App message restrictions
🔍 Databerry: Connect your data to ChatGPT in minutes
🔍 PlanetScale: “The world’s most advanced serverless MySQL platform”
🔍 Hive Index: “Find The Best Online Communities”
🔍 Zapier - Natural Language Actions API
🔍 “Endowed Progress”: Never as your users to start from scratch: zapier, uxdesign.cc, changingminds.org

Open source

💥 Hugo The world’s fastest framework for building websites (dholmes.co.uk is built using Hugo)
- 💥 Hokus CMS: CMS for Hugo
💥 Hurl: Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format
❌ Riffusion: Real-time music generation with stable diffusion (blog post to follow) - It’s not there yet (but still interesting)
❌ beatoven.ai: “Create customisable royalty free music that elevates your story” - It’s not there yet (but still interesting)
💥 BlurHash: Fast loading, colourful placeholders for your images (See the related blog post)
💥 gpt4-pdf-chatbot-langchain: Use the new GPT-4 api to build a chatGPT chatbot for multiple Large PDF files.
💥 Auth.js “Authentication for the web”, avoid vendor lock in, save time
💥 Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library
💥 megabots “🤖 Megabots provides State-of-the-art, production ready bots made mega-easy”
💥 WXT: “Next-gen Web Extension Framework - An open source tool that makes Chrome Extension development faster than ever before.”
🔍 Prisma Editor: “Prisma Editor is a powerful tool designed to visualize and edit Prisma Schema with ease.” (dbdiagram.io?)
🔍 tremor: “The React library to build dashboards fast”
🔍 kv.js: “Advanced in-memory caching module for JavaScript.”
💥 highlight: “The open source, fullstack Monitoring Platform.”
💥 Freeze “Generate images of code and terminal output”
🔍 Tracecat “an open source Tines / Splunk SOAR alternative”

SaaS with “always free” plans

💥 dbdiagram.io: “Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly 😎 A free, simple tool to draw ER diagrams by just writing code. Designed for developers and data analysts.”
💥 heurio: Collaborative website feedback tool
🔍 changedetection.io: “WEBSITE CHANGE DETECTION …FOR CLEVER PEOPLE”
🔍 ScribeHow: Turn any process into a step-by-step guide, instantly. (Scribe is also a speech recognition JavaScript library I started looking at in 2014! 😳)
🔍 Checkbot: Checkbot finds SEO, speed & security problems before your website visitors do (similar to Google Lighthouse)
🔍 Text Blaze: “Eliminate repetitive typing and mistakes. Easy-to-use templates with endless customizability and powerful automation. All with full control at your fingertips.”
🔍 unleash: Feature flags

Open beta / free for now

OpenAI cookbook: Usage examples for using GPT
- ChatGPT: Wow - we’re all going to lose our jobs 😄

Hello!

Reading List

General

Open source

SaaS with “always free” plans

Open beta / free for now

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