Welcome back to the Annual StackShare Awards! 🎊 (Check out last year's awards here).
This year we analyzed well over 12 million data points shared by you- the StackShare community- to bring you these rankings 📈
There's well over 100 tools in this list so make sure to bookmark this so you can come back to it later 📌
ICYMI: in 2023 we announced the release of The Tech Stack File - the universal standard for tech stack data. techstack.yml is a single file that lists the entire tech stack of a Git repo, with metadata about each technology. You can read more about it in the announcement and in the press release. Try out the free Stack File GitHub App today!
We also released over 40 new StackShare Enterprise features! Including tons of API improvements and new endpoints, Tech Radar visualization (pictured below), additional report filters, profile updates, dashboard improvements, new multi-org features, tons of new package manager support, and more!
Check out the full list of new enterprise features here.
And now, the winners of the StackShare Top Tools Awards 2023:
As usual, this is our biggest undertaking of the year- we comb through a massive data set to find the best tools that you should know about, try out, or should already be using. We aggregated usage from 1M+ tech stacks , over 10M+ follows , and tons more developer comments, reviews, and votes (more on methodology below) . Let’s dive in!
2023 was the year of AI in developer tools land. Week after week we saw new language models, LLM tooling, and data solutions being released. Amongst the thousands of tools that were introduced in 2023, there was one that emerged as the dominant building block for AI: LangChain. While it technically debuted in 2022, it took off last year as developers tried to keep up with all the new models and the changes to those models. LangChain became so popular largely because it was viewed as a wrapper around all the most popular LLMs, making it easier for your application to utilize more than one model and also keep up with changes more easily. While there are pros and cons to that approach, it's clear that LangChain struck a chord with the developer community. Congratulations to the entire LangChain team on building an incredibly valuable open source framework and now an entire community. LangChain has an MIT license and has over 75K stars on GitHub. Head over to LangChain's website to learn more.
» Follow LangChain
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» Learn more about LangChain
Create an AI-generated backend with just a few sentences
» Autobackend's profile
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» Autobackend's website
Beautifully designed components built with Radix UI and Tailwind CSS
» shadcn UI's profile
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» shadcn UI's website
An interoperable, streaming-enabled, edge-ready software development kit for AI apps
» Vercel AI SDK's profile
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» Vercel AI SDK's website
Build fully typesafe APIs without code generation or schemas
» tRPC's profile
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» tRPC's website
An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous
» Auto-GPT's profile
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» Auto-GPT's website
An open-source GitHub Copilot server
» FauxPilot's profile
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» FauxPilot's website
Build high-performance vector search applications
» Pinecone's profile
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» Pinecone's website
GPT-powered code contextualizer
» Watermelon's profile
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» Watermelon's website
Interact privately with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks
» privateGPT's profile
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» privateGPT's website
Transcribe and translate any audio files
» Writeout.ai's profile
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» Writeout.ai's website
A CLI that writes your commit messages for you
» AI Commits's profile
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» AI Commits's website
The AI that knows your entire codebase (By Sourcegraph)
» Cody AI's profile
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» Cody AI's website
A GPT-empowered penetration testing tool
» PentestGPT's profile
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» PentestGPT's website
The AI-native open-source embedding database
» Chroma's profile
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» Chroma's website
Text to beautiful charts within seconds
» Chart-GPT's profile
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» Chart-GPT's website
Your end-to-end stack for cloud compute
» Modal's profile
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» Modal's website
Custom ChatGPT bots using your data
» Chat Thing's profile
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» Chat Thing's website
Generative AI for customer support automation
» SupportGPT's profile
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» SupportGPT's website
Open-source AI-powered junior developer
» Sweep's profile
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» Sweep's website
A central interface to connect your LLMs with external data
» LlamaIndex's profile
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» LlamaIndex's website
Drag and drop UI to build your customized LLM flow using LangchainJS
» Flowise's profile
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» Flowise's website
A Rust Crate/CLI for CPU inference of LLMs
» LLM's profile
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» LLM's website
A lightweight JavaScript framework for building interactive web interfaces
» AlpineJS's profile
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» AlpineJS's website
Label, clean and enrich text datasets with LLMs
» Autolabel's profile
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» Autolabel's website
Get an instant overview of all your code and cloud security issues
» Aikido Security's profile
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» Aikido Security's website
Giving Kubernetes SRE superpowers to everyone
» K8sGPT's profile
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» K8sGPT's website
Chat-based SQL client for the next decade
» SQL Chat's profile
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» SQL Chat's website
A latent text-to-image diffusion model
» Stable Diffusion's profile
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» Stable Diffusion's website
Platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools
» GPT Engineer's profile
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» GPT Engineer's website
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets
» Dagster's profile
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» Dagster's website
Search, understand and augment your codebase in seconds using AI
» Buildt's profile
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» Buildt's website
Use AI to save up to 75% on your AWS bill
» Antimetal's profile
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» Antimetal's website
A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model (By Facebook)
» LLaMA's profile
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» LLaMA's website
Open-source Large Language Model for Finance
» FinGPT's profile
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» FinGPT's website
An end-to-end document management platform for PDF-heavy businesses
» Anvil Platform's profile
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» Anvil Platform's website
Your second brain, empowered by Generative AI
» Quivr's profile
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» Quivr's website
The open source Background Jobs framework for Next.js
» Trigger.dev's profile
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» Trigger.dev's website
OSS to deploy autonomous AI Agents in the browser
» AgentGPT's profile
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» AgentGPT's website
Add 10X features to GitHub code review
» Planar's profile
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» Planar's website
Serverless, fault-tolerant, branchable Postgres
» Neon Database's profile
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» Neon Database's website
The open-source autopilot for software development
» Continue's profile
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» Continue's website
Serverless data for Redis® and Kafka®
» Upstash's profile
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» Upstash's website
Neovim config for the lazy
» LazyVim's profile
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» LazyVim's website
A full-stack personalized AI assistant
» AnythingLLM's profile
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» AnythingLLM's website
A self-hosted GitHub Copilot
» Tabby AI Assistant's profile
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» Tabby AI Assistant's website
Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
» Automatisch's profile
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» Automatisch's website
Fine-tune, serve, deploy, and monitor any LLMs with ease
» OpenLLM's profile
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» OpenLLM's website
Enterprise-class web analytics.
» Google Analytics's profile
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» Google Analytics's website
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users
» Mixpanel's profile
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» Mixpanel's website
Quickly and easily update tags and code snippets on your website or mobile app
» Google Tag Manager's profile
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» Google Tag Manager's website
A single hub to collect, translate and send your data with the flip of a switch.
» Segment's profile
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» Segment's website
Experimentation platform for marketing, product, and engineering teams, with feature flags and personalization
» Optimizely's profile
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» Optimizely's website
The Realtime App Platform
» Firebase's profile
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» Firebase's website
A comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform
» Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s profile
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» Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s website
Scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud
» Amazon EC2's profile
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» Amazon EC2's website
A suite of cloud computing services
» Google Cloud Platform's profile
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» Google Cloud Platform's website
Integrated cloud services and infrastructure to support computing, database, analytics, mobile, and web scenarios.
» Microsoft Azure's profile
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» Microsoft Azure's website
A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
» NGINX's profile
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» NGINX's website
An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies
» Apache Tomcat's profile
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» Apache Tomcat's website
Open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows
» Apache HTTP Server's profile
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» Apache HTTP Server's website
A web server for Microsoft Windows
» Microsoft IIS's profile
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» Microsoft IIS's website
A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
» Gunicorn's profile
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» Gunicorn's website
Only complete API development environment
» Postman's profile
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» Postman's website
Build highly customisable maps with your own content and imagery
» Google Maps's profile
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» Google Maps's website
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
» Elasticsearch's profile
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» Elasticsearch's website
Public webpages freely hosted and easily published.
» GitHub Pages's profile
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» GitHub Pages's website
Quickly and easily create a beautiful online store with Shopify.
» Shopify's profile
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» Shopify's website
A safe place for all your files
» Google Drive's profile
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» Google Drive's website
The Web Performance & Security Company.
» CloudFlare's profile
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» CloudFlare's website
Build the power of Dropbox into your apps
» Dropbox's profile
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» Dropbox's website
Content delivery with low latency and high data transfer speeds
» Amazon CloudFront's profile
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» Amazon CloudFront's website
File uploads, media processing, and adaptive delivery for web and mobile
» Uploadcare's profile
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» Uploadcare's website
Dedicated email servers without any user/domain limits and complete API support for email administration
» Mailcheap's profile
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» Mailcheap's website
Open Source Mail Server Solution
» iRedMail's profile
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» iRedMail's website
Create and edit spreadsheets online, for free
» Google Sheets's profile
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» Google Sheets's website
A blazingly fast Email client
» Superhuman's profile
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» Superhuman's website
Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects
» GitHub's profile
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» GitHub's website
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
» Visual Studio Code's profile
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» Visual Studio Code's website
Enterprise Container Platform for High-Velocity Innovation.
» Docker's profile
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» Docker's website
The package manager for JavaScript.
» npm's profile
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» npm's website
Automate your workflow from idea to production
» GitHub Actions's profile
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» GitHub Actions's website
Bring all your communication together in one place
» Slack's profile
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» Slack's website
The #1 software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software.
» Jira's profile
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» Jira's website
Your entire project, in a single glance
» Trello's profile
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» Trello's website
One place to share, find, and collaborate on information
» Confluence's profile
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» Confluence's website
All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone
» Discord's profile
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» Discord's website
Bring voice and messaging to your web and mobile applications.
» Twilio's profile
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» Twilio's website
Bulk and transactional email-sending service.
» Amazon SES's profile
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» Amazon SES's website
Email Delivery. Simplified.
» Twilio SendGrid's profile
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» Twilio SendGrid's website
The Email Service for Developers.
» Mailgun's profile
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» Mailgun's website
A module for Node.js applications to allow email sending
» Nodemailer's profile
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» Nodemailer's website
The world's most popular open source database
» MySQL's profile
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» MySQL's website
A powerful, open source object-relational database system
» PostgreSQL's profile
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» PostgreSQL's website
Open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store
» Redis's profile
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» Redis's website
Store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
» Amazon S3's profile
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» Amazon S3's website
Prototyping & Collaboration For Design Teams
» InVision's profile
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» InVision's website
The collaborative interface design tool.
» Figma's profile
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» Figma's website
Render React components to Sketch ⚛️💎
» React Sketch.app's profile
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» React Sketch.app's website
The industry standard in design, photography, video editing & more
» Adobe Photoshop's profile
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» Adobe Photoshop's website
Ship your products 3-4x faster — with low code
» Locofy's profile
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» Locofy's website
Lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions
» JavaScript's profile
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» JavaScript's website
A superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
» TypeScript's profile
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» TypeScript's website
A clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
» Python's profile
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» Python's website
A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications
» Node.js's profile
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» Node.js's website
A shell is a text-based terminal, used for manipulating programs and files. Shell scripts typically manage program execution.
» Shell's profile
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» Shell's website
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
» React's profile
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» React's website
A progressive framework for building user interfaces
» Vue.js's profile
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» Vue.js's website
Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework
» AngularJS's profile
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» AngularJS's website
The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.
» jQuery's profile
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» jQuery's website
Predictable state container for JavaScript apps
» Redux's profile
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» Redux's website
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
» Django's profile
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» Django's website
Sinatra inspired web development framework for node.js -- insanely fast, flexible, and simple
» ExpressJS's profile
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» ExpressJS's website
Create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss
» Spring Boot's profile
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» Spring Boot's website
A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
» Laravel's profile
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» Laravel's website
A microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions
» Flask's profile
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» Flask's website
A framework for building native apps with React
» React Native's profile
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» React Native's website
Cross-platform mobile framework from Google
» Flutter's profile
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» Flutter's website
Statically typed Programming Language targeting JVM and JavaScript
» Kotlin's profile
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» Kotlin's website
An innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.
» Swift's profile
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» Swift's website
An SDK that provides you the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android.
» Android SDK's profile
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» Android SDK's website
Open source Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor
» Grafana's profile
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» Grafana's website
Visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack
» Kibana's profile
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» Kibana's website
See performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize code health.
» Sentry's profile
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» Sentry's website
Unify logs, metrics, and traces from across your distributed infrastructure.
» Datadog's profile
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» Datadog's website
Collect, Parse, & Enrich Data
» Logstash's profile
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» Logstash's website
Send Money, Pay Online or Set Up a Merchant Account
» PayPal's profile
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» PayPal's website
A platform for shopping, mobile recharge, bill payments, movie ticketing experience and more
» Paytm's profile
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» Paytm's website
A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
» WordPress's profile
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» WordPress's website
All the software you need to do inbound marketing.
» HubSpot's profile
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» HubSpot's website
A program that allows bloggers and website owners to make money by displaying Google ads
» Google AdSense's profile
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» Google AdSense's website
The leading cloud-based customer service software solution.
» Zendesk's profile
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» Zendesk's website
These rankings are brought to you, by the entire StackShare community of over one million developers. You make these awards possible by sharing not only what you're using, but more importantly, why you chose your stack. If you aren't familiar, Stack Advice is an easy way to get and give advice on specific tech stack decisions.
So we'd like to thank and recognize the community members that chose to give their fellow developers advice in their time of need, on all sorts of important tech stack decisions.
While there are thousands of developers that help each other every year on StackShare- the 20 developers below went above and beyond the call of duty to give their peers advice over and over again.
We'd like to thank everyone who asked the community for advice and everyone who chimed in with their recommendations 🙏 See all the Stack Decisions and Stack Advice these special developers shared by checking out their stack decision feeds below!
Methodology:
For tool rankings, scores are calculated using a combination of number of stacks a tool was added to, number of votes, number of Stack Decisions shared, number of one-liners, number of follows, and number of profile views for the year. New Tool rankings were calculated from tools that were created and added to StackShare in 2023 with follows and views being weighted more heavily than other metrics since new tools don’t just enter stacks overnight.
As usual, we removed Git from the rankings in the DevOps rankings since many developers don't list it in their stack (and instead only list Git collaboration platforms).
If you have any questions about the rankings, drop us a line at team@stackshare.io!