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free-for-dev: The Spreadsheet That Saves You Months of Research
A maintained list of free tiers across cloud infra, databases, and DevOps tools. Useful if you're bootstrapped or testing before committing budget.
ripienaar/free-for-dev ↗Building infrastructure costs money—until it doesn't. free-for-dev is a curated list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services that offer genuinely usable free tiers: databases (PostgreSQL, Redis), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab), monitoring, storage, CDNs, the lot.
Why it matters: Instead of Googling "free database" and hitting marketing pages, you get a structured inventory. Each entry tells you what the free tier actually includes—storage limits, request caps, what kills your free status. For solopreneurs and small teams, this saves weeks of vendor research and often months of runway.
The list is old (started 2014) but actively maintained. You won't find cutting-edge discovery tools here, but you will find reliable, boring infrastructure at zero dollars.
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Free tier cheat sheet for infra—before you pay for anything
ripienaar/free-for-dev is a living list of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS free tiers: databases, CDNs, CI/CD, monitoring, etc. Solid for bootstrapped founders doing cost arithmetic. Mature project, regularly updated, no fluff.
spending money on infra before you've tested the idea? free-for-dev is a structured list of actually-usable free tiers: postgres, redis, github actions, monitoring, etc. old project, actively maintained. saves you weeks of vendor googling.
For bootstrapped teams: free-for-dev is a maintained inventory of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS free tiers—databases, CI/CD, monitoring, CDNs, and more. Each entry specifies what's actually included and what kills free status. Saves weeks of vendor research before your first paid dollar.
I just bookmarked ripienaar/free-for-dev and it saved me three hours of Slack conversations about which tools have actual free tiers. Here's the thing: most founders I know are burning money on paid plans they could've gotten free. This repo is a curated list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS with real free offerings—databases, CI/CD, monitoring, analytics, the works. No fluff. No "free trial for 14 days." Real, usable free tiers. If you're bootstrapped or just hate waste, you're literally leaving money on the table without this. https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
ripienaar/free-for-dev just became my new tab. A living list of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS with real free tiers. No trial traps. No hidden limits buried in the FAQ. Databases ✓ CI/CD ✓ Monitoring ✓ Analytics ✓ If you're not checking this before signing up for paid, you're paying to learn. https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev