Welcome to developheat
developheat is a simple idea: a curated directory of developer tools for people who actually ship.
Every tool in the directory is one someone on this side of the screen has used, paid for, or argued about at 2 a.m. No sponsored placements. No "top 100" listicles padded with affiliate links. If a tool is here, it earned the slot.
What's on the site
- /tools — the directory. Filter by category, search by name or tag, and every tool gets its own page with a straight-shooting description and a link out.
- /blog — notes on tools, deploys, self-hosting, and building in the open. New posts are just Markdown files dropped in a folder, so publishing is a
git pullaway. - /merch — charcoal tees, hoodies, and mugs with the fire-and-chrome flame mark. First drop is coming soon.
The stack
The site itself is a small Python app (Flask) running in Docker on a $6-ish VPS, behind nginx, with a free Let's Encrypt cert. The whole thing deploys with docker compose up -d. Sometimes the boring stack is the right stack.
If you've got a tool we missed — or one we got wrong — the directory is meant to grow. More on how curation works in the next post.