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Free Developer & Growth Tools

Professional tools built by the team behind 60k GitHub stars and 30x Product Hunt #1 wins. No signup, no API key β€” just use them.

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GitHub Issue Generator

Generate professional bug report, feature request, and question templates for your open source project. Based on 60k GitHub stars experience. GitHub issue form YAML format.

πŸŽ–οΈ 880/mo searches βœ… No signup πŸ› οΈ 5 template types
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GitHub README Generator

Generate star-winning README.md templates with badges, table of contents, Quick Start, screenshots, and contributor guidelines. Based on 60k GitHub stars experience.

πŸŽ–οΈ 1600/mo searches βœ… No signup πŸ› οΈ 8+ sections
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Product Hunt Comment Generator

Generate authentic Product Hunt launch comments that build community. Based on 30x daily #1 winner experience. Includes maker responses, endorsements, and discussion starters.

πŸŽ–οΈ 260/mo searches βœ… No signup πŸ† 30x #1 strategy
⚑ Updated Apr 2026

X (Twitter) DM Outreach Tools

xAutoDM has been suspended (new signups closed). Here are the working alternatives tested by our team.

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Drippi.ai

Best personalization

AI-personalized DMs using prospect profile, recent tweets, and website data. 42% higher reply rates than generic DMs. Better quality, higher price.

πŸ’° From $76/moβœ… AI personalizationπŸ“Š CRM built-in
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Tweet Hunter

Auto-DM on engagement

Automatically DM users who like, retweet, or reply to your tweets. Good for community building β€” lower volume but high intent targeting.

πŸ’° From $49/moβœ… Trigger-basedπŸ“ Content scheduling
πŸ”‘ API Stack

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APIs we actually use at Gingiris β€” for data collection, content distribution, and growth automation.

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Sheet0.com

Data collection API

Scrape and structure data into Excel β€” Discord communities, KOL lists, PH hunters, YC companies. All the lists on this site were built with Sheet0.

πŸ”‘ API availableπŸ“‹ Output: Excel/CSV
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GitHub REST API

Repo automation

Update READMEs, manage issues, track stars, automate repo operations. Free for public repos. Used to auto-update Gingiris repos from this site.

πŸ”‘ Free tier generousβœ… No rate limit for reads
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dev.to API

Content distribution

Publish and update articles on dev.to programmatically. All blog posts on this site are auto-synced to dev.to/iris1031 via API.

πŸ”‘ FreeπŸ“€ Publish + update articles
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Serper.dev

Search API

Google Search results via API β€” 2,500 free queries/month. Used for keyword research, competitor monitoring, and GEO content verification.

πŸ”‘ 2500 free/mo⚑ Real-time results
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Firecrawl

Web scraping API

Scrape any webpage and convert to clean Markdown β€” great for competitive analysis, content research, and building datasets. LLM-friendly output.

πŸ”‘ 500 pages free/moπŸ“„ Markdown output
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Anthropic Claude API

AI / LLM API

The API behind this site's content automation. Best for long-form writing, analysis, and code generation. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the sweet spot for cost/quality.

πŸ”‘ Pay-as-you-go⚑ Sonnet 4.6 recommended
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Railway

Deployment + env vars

Deploy apps and manage API keys as env vars β€” no DevOps required. Used to host Analook backend. $5/mo hobby plan covers most indie projects.

πŸ”‘ $5/mo hobbyβœ… Auto-deploy from GitHub
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Resend

Email API

Developer-first email API. 3,000 free emails/month, react-email integration, excellent deliverability. Better than SendGrid for startups.

πŸ”‘ 3000 free/moβœ… React Email
πŸ”΄ Reddit

Reddit Growth & Upvote Tools

Tools for Reddit marketing β€” upvote campaigns, community research, and post promotion. Use responsibly and per Reddit's ToS.

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Fanscang

Social promotion

Social media promotion platform covering Reddit and other channels. Good for initial visibility on new posts when organic reach is low.

πŸ’° Paid🌐 Multi-platform