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[GitHub Trending] ripienaar/free-for-dev

5.8 relevance
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technical depth
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novelty
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actionability
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community
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strategic
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personal
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Curated list of free dev services; highly actionable for cost-conscious engineers but not technically deep.

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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev - ripienaar/free-for-dev
Summary

The ripienaar/free-for-dev GitHub repo curates a community-maintained list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings with permanent free tiers (not just trials), covering major cloud providers like GCP (e.g., 28 App Engine frontend hours/day, 2M Cloud Functions invocations/month) and niche services across analytics, CI/CD, monitoring, and generative AI. The list, built by 1600+ contributors, excludes self-hosted software and enforces security criteria such as requiring TLS on free tiers. It serves as a practical reference for infrastructure developers evaluating cost-effective tools for prototyping, side projects, or bootstrapped startups.

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