What we use to build AlternativeTo
Algolia ->
To provide you with an incredible fast and accurate search Free Personal Proprietary
React ->
For our new frontend. Free Open Source
Google AdSense ->
Our primary source of income. Free Proprietary
VirusTotal ->
The team often checks on apps using VirusTotal, to ensure they're safe for users. Free Proprietary
Google Search Console ->
To keep an eye on the SERP. Free Proprietary
NuGet ->
As the server side package manager in Visual Studio Free Open Source
Cloudflare ->
To speed up your requests, detect spam and some great HTTPS support. Freemium Proprietary
Microsoft Azure ->
To host most of our servers, databases and so on. Paid Proprietary
Asana ->
For all our task management and daily operations. Freemium Proprietary
iA Writer ->
A lot of blog posts, plans and other long.form texts have been typed up in this application, either on Mac OS X or on iOS. Paid Proprietary
TypeScript ->
We use Typescript to make sure we do not add to many runtime errors. Free Open Source
Front ->
A collaborative inbox and support chat. Paid Proprietary
Redis Desktop Manager ->
To work with our Redis cache locally Paid Open Source
Docker ->
Both in production and for development. Freemium Open Source
Slack ->
AlternativeTo is a distributed team and since not two single people are based in the same city, this is our digital office. Freemium Proprietary
Redis ->
As a cache for data that is accessed often. Free Open Source
Sketch ->
A modern way to create user interfaces and more. Most of the current design on the site was made with Sketch, the rest with Photoshop. Paid Proprietary
Cypress.io ->
Awesome test framework for integration and E2E tests. Free Open Source
Google Analytics ->
We spend a lot of time trying to understand how the site works and how our users engage with the site, and we do most of that digging in Google Analytics. Free Proprietary
Google Lighthouse ->
To make sure the page is as fast as possible. Free Open Source
SQL Server Management Studio ->
For database management. Free Proprietary
GitHub ->
Like most other software developers nowdays we use GIT as our source control system and we host our code on GitHub. We also use their issue system to associate bugs with commits and so on. Freemium Proprietary
Microsoft SQL Server ->
As the primary database for the site Freemium Proprietary
Azure DevOps ->
Most of our CI/CD is running in Azure Devops. Freemium Proprietary
Windows Terminal ->
Finally a decent terminal for windows. Free Open Source
.NET Core ->
Our API is built in .net core. Free Open Source
1Password ->
To keep the passwords safe and to share them with our team. Paid Proprietary
Git ->
Since we use Github we of course also use Git. Free Open Source
Microsoft Visual Studio ->
Visual Studio is the main IDE we use for coding, debugging and everything else that you do in a large app like this. Free Personal Proprietary
Nuclino ->
For internal documentation. Freemium Proprietary
Next.js ->
Javascript framework to run polymorphic apps. Free Open Source
Azure Data Studio ->
For database management. Free Open Source
Auth0 ->
For authentication and some user management. Freemium Proprietary
Yarn ->
Not sure why, but we mainly use Yarn as a package manager in the JS world. Free Open Source
Visual Studio Code ->
To do Frontend development with Next.Js Free Proprietary
Adobe Photoshop ->
A lot of the design elements on the site was done in Photoshop over the years, but lately we're leaning towards Sketch. Paid Proprietary
Insomnia REST Client ->
To test and debug the API. Freemium Open Source