ToolsOfTheTrade

Tools of the Trade is a long, community-maintained directory of online services and software that startups and developers commonly use day-to-day. The repository contains no application code; the README itself is the product, organized as a giant table of contents with categories and tables of named services. The description calls it Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News.

The background section explains the origin: in 2010 the founder of Delicious asked on Hacker News which hosted services people were using instead of self-hosting things like mail and source control. A 2013 follow-up thread revisited the same question, and this repository began by collecting answers from those threads, plus data from AngelList and Quora, then grew further from pull requests on GitHub. It includes both self-hosted and hosted services.

The contents are grouped into two top-level buckets, Business and Tech. Business covers payments and billing, marketing and SEO, productivity tools, founder needs like fundraising and legal documents, analytics dashboards, design and UX, CRM, customer support, HR, and shipping. Tech covers databases and storage, programming productivity, APIs, testing and monitoring, platform services, DevSecOps including security and continuous integration, hosting and boilerplates, and other categories like DNS, error handling, geocoding, and backups. Each leaf category is a small table listing the service name, Twitter handle, a pricing line, and a one-line description.

You would use this as a starting point when picking a tool for a specific job and want a curated jumping-off list rather than open-ended web search. The full README is longer than what was provided.