Useful websites, apps, and tools

[seemly]

I have posted this previously (at UKDNF) when I was sorting out my bookmarks. Luckily I'd saved the bulk of it, so it's easy enough for me to publish again.

Hopefully some of you will find at least one or 2 that you might not have stumbled across before that you might possibly find useful.

1. Project Ideas
2. Design
3. Code
4. Performance
5. Tools
6. Services

 

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Project Ideas:​

Exploding Topics
Discover rapidly growing topics before they take off.

Exploding Topics - Discover the hottest new trends.

See new market opportunities, trending topics, emerging technology, hot startups and more on Exploding Topics.

explodingtopics.com

Reddit List
Discover the most active sub-reddits.

redditlist.com - Tracking the top 5000 subreddits

redditlist helps you find the best parts of reddit.com by bringing you daily rankings and statistics for the most popular subreddits.

redditlist.com

Unbundling Reddit

The Guide to Unbundling Reddit

Every few years a great unbundling occurs

latecheckout.substack.com

Product Hunt
Discover new apps and projects that could provide some inspiration.

Product Hunt – The best new products in tech.

Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about.

www.producthunt.com

Neal Fun
A collection of mini-apps and games that could provide some project inspiration.

https://neal.fun/

Tiny Helpers
Looks like it's a little broken at the moment, but a large collection of useful mini-apps and tools.

All – Tiny Helpers

A collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers...

tiny-helpers.dev

 

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Design​

Colors and Fonts
Color & typography tools for web developers & digital designers.

Colors & Fonts - Home

Discover Colors & Fonts, a platform offering a wide range of color and typography tools for web developers and digital designers.

www.colorsandfonts.com

Collect UI
UI design inspiration categorised by type.

Collect UI

Daily inspiration collected from daily ui archive and beyond. Based on Dribbble shots, hand picked, updating daily.

collectui.com

Commerce Cream
A showcase of beautiful ecommerce experiences that are powered by Shopify.

Commerce Cream

Shopify Ecommerce Web Design Inspirations

commercecream.com

Really Good Emails
A huge catalog of email marketing templates, grouped by type.

https://reallygoodemails.com/

Vector Magic
Convert raster images to vector file formats (not free).

Vector Magic: Convert JPG, PNG images to SVG, EPS, AI vectors

Easily convert JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF bitmap images to SVG, EPS, PDF, AI, DXF vector images with real full-color tracing, online or using the desktop app!

vectormagic.com

Iconoir
Free icon library.

Iconoir | Free Icons

Iconoir is the biggest open source icon library that provides a massive selection of high-quality icons, available for free download. No premium options or email sign-up required, free for real. Icons available in SVG, Font, React, React Nativ, and Flutter libraries, Figma and Framer.

iconoir.com

Undraw
Open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create.

unDraw - Open source illustrations for any idea

The design project with open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create. Create beautiful websites, products and applications with your color, for free.

undraw.co

Storyset
Free customizable illustrations for your next project

Storyset: Customize, animate and download illustration for free

Edit and animate all our customizable illustrations to enhance your projects totally free. Start now to be creative in our online editor ✅

storyset.com

Photopea
A free online image editor. A more basic version of Photoshop available from your browser. This app is super useful for programmatically generating image thumbnails using a template.

Photopea | Online Photo Editor

Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. Do Online Photo Editing in your browser for free!

www.photopea.com

Screely
Make your screenshots look better.

Screely - Generate Website Mockups

Instantly turn your screenshot into a beautiful website mockup. Customize the browser mockup window, background and much more.

screely.com

Carbon
Make your code snippet screenshots look better.

Carbon | Create and share beautiful images of your source code

Carbon is the easiest way to create and share beautiful images of your source code.

carbon.now.sh

Animista
A collection of pre-made CSS animations, tweak them and get only those you will actually use.

Animista - On-Demand CSS Animations Library

Animista is a CSS animation library and a place where you can play with a collection of ready-made CSS animations and download only those you will use.

animista.net

Remove BG
Remove backgrounds from images automatically.

Remove Background from Image for Free – remove.bg

Remove image backgrounds automatically in 5 seconds with just one click. Don't spend hours manually picking pixels. Upload your photo now & see the magic.

www.remove.bg

 

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Code​

Penguin UI
A free Tailwind UI alternative.

Penguin UI - Tailwind CSS & Alpine JS UI Component Library

Beautifully crafted UI components for Tailwind CSS and Alpine JS

www.penguinui.com

Headless UI
Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.
https://headlessui.com/

 

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Performance​

wsrv.nl
An image cache (CDN) & resize service

Image cache & resize service

Manipulate images on-the-fly with a worldwide cache

images.weserv.nl

Web Vitals patterns
A collection of performant UI patterns to improve your Core Web Vitals scores.

Web Vitals patterns | Patterns | web.dev

A collection of common UX patterns optimized for Core Web Vitals.

web.dev

 

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Tools​

Squoosh
Browser based image compression and conversion.

Squoosh

Squoosh is the ultimate image optimizer that allows you to compress and compare images with different codecs in your browser.

squoosh.app

Uptime Robot
Uptime monitoring service, free tier has up to 50 monitors.

UptimeRobot: Free Website Monitoring Service

Start monitoring in 30 seconds. Use advanced SSL, keyword and cron monitoring. Get notified by email, SMS, Slack and more. Get 50 monitors for FREE!

uptimerobot.com

htaccess tester
Test your htaccess rewrite rules

htaccess tester ♥ madewithlove

Easily test your htaccess rewrite rules

htaccess.madewithlove.com

HTTP Status
Easily check status codes, response headers, and redirect chains.

Bulk URL HTTP Status Code, Header & Redirect Checker

Redirect checker to easily check status codes, response headers, and redirect chains.

httpstatus.io

Octopus
Visual sitemap builder and website planner.

AI Visual Sitemap Builder Tool, Website Planner, Architecture

FREE visual sitemap builder with lo-fi wireframes for prototyping website architecture & structure. Use our website planning and site mapping tool to create a site map instantly. Our website diagram tool and website mapping is extremely fast and easy, we promise!

octopus.do

CyberChef
A plethora of developer based tools for converting, decoding, compressions, formatting, etc.

CyberChef

The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

gchq.github.io

Share Drop
Easily and securely share files directly between devices without uploading them to any server first.

ShareDrop

ShareDrop is a peer-to-peer file sharing app powered by HTML5 WebRTC.

www.sharedrop.io

Hoppscotch
Browser based Postman app alternative (API endpoint tester).

Hoppscotch • Open source API development ecosystem

Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development.

hoppscotch.io

Coolors
Extract colour palettes from your photos (amongst other tools).

Extract palette from image - Coolors

Create a palettes from your photo.

coolors.co

Get average colour of an image

Get Average Color of Image

My Noise
Immersive and customizable soundscapes that can enhance focus, relaxation, and sleep.

Background Noises • Ambient Sounds • Relaxing Music | myNoise ®

myNoise sets the standard for online background noise machines and interactive soundscapes.

mynoise.net

Table Topy
An RPG sound generator. Or just use it for background ambience (filters at bottom of screen).

Tabletop sounds

Create immersive environments for Dungeons and Dragons campaigns and other RPG games.

tabletopy.com

 

[diablo]

A lot of very useful tools there! Thank you!

 

[GreyWing]

Some amazing tools I'd never seen before @seemly - Some I didn't even know I needed, thanks for that, really appreciated and I'll be using a few of them on the next build.

 

[ben]

I have posted this previously (at UKDNF) when I was sorting out my bookmarks. Luckily I'd saved the bulk of it, so it's easy enough for me to publish again.

Hopefully some of you will find at least one or 2 that you might not have stumbled across before that you might possibly find useful.

1. Project Ideas
2. Design
3. Code
4. Performance
5. Tools

I love VectorMagic, I just signed up to their monthly subscription. I use it to create vector art from some of my photography for Tales from the Trees, like this:

The Hoad — Limited Edition A5 Print

Introducing an exclusive, limited edition: “The Hoad” – a meticulously crafted vector art print in A5 size, celebrating the historic Hoad Monument in Ulverston.

talesfromthetrees.com

Another good one for the design category is coolors.co (edited), proper smart colour palette tool (and more). Great list though.

 

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I love VectorMagic, I just signed up to their monthly subscription. I use it to create vector art from some of my photography for Tales from the Trees, like this:

The Hoad — Limited Edition A5 Print

Introducing an exclusive, limited edition: “The Hoad” – a meticulously crafted vector art print in A5 size, celebrating the historic Hoad Monument in Ulverston.

talesfromthetrees.com

Another good one for the design category is coolers.co, proper smart colour palette tool (and more). Great list though.

Regarding coolors.co (typo in your post) - Agreed, this is a fantastic website, and I do actually have this bookmarked already. I've had a promote/demote system for bookmarks for a few years now. I'm a bit weird like that, but it makes sure I keep a concise list of genuinely useful bookmarks!

Can't say I've ever used VectorMagic, but I've seen a lot of people recommend it within the 3D printing circles I also participate in, so it must be good!

 

[ben]

Regarding coolors.co (typo in your post) - Agreed, this is a fantastic website, and I do actually have this bookmarked already. I've had a promote/demote system for bookmarks for a few years now. I'm a bit weird like that, but it makes sure I keep a concise list of genuinely useful bookmarks!

Can't say I've ever used VectorMagic, but I've seen a lot of people recommend it within the 3D printing circles I also participate in, so it must be good!

It's funny because I literally always spell it wrong when I'm going to the website, and I'm ALWAYS saying, "Oh no, has it closed down?"

 

[GreyWing]

Just found

Manager.io

free offline accounting software, even I can use it. Can use for Multi-Companies and businesses.
Impressed with that one.

 

[ben]

That actually looks clean as well

 

[DJ]

I remember bookmarking this and never getting round to reading it. I'll bookmark it again

 

[DJ]

Just found

Manager.io

free offline accounting software, even I can use it. Can use for Multi-Companies and businesses.
Impressed with that one.

Thanks for this, I actually have finding some basic accounting software on my todo list

 

[John]

Thank you Seemly for compiling this list, very useful great thread.

 

[seemly]

Thank you Seemly for compiling this list, very useful great thread.

You're most welcome. I hope you find some value.

I'll be adding more as time goes by, so hopefully it becomes a pretty useful resource.

 

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Services​

Veeqo
Effortlessly manage your ecommerce inventory and shipping using all-in-one software. Save costs with low rates, automation, and hassle-free tools.

Multichannel Inventory Software for Ecommerce | Veeqo UK

Effortlessly manage your ecommerce inventory & shipping with our all-in-one software. Save costs and time with low rates, automation, and hassle-free tools.

www.veeqo.com

 

[John]

Thank you very much for compiling this list, very useful.

 

[John]

???

You gonna post the same thing every couple weeks?

I forgot I posted earlier in the thread, two months ago.

???
Is there any particular reason you needed to post this comment?

Is there any reason you needed to be so rude?