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🚀 DevShelf v1.0.0 — The Crowdsourced Developer Directory

We are thrilled to officially launch DevShelf v1.0.0 — an open-source, community-driven discovery engine designed to help developers showcase their repositories, share free public APIs, discover curated developer discounts, and find open-source projects actively seeking contributors.

DevShelf is 100% free, runs with zero hosting costs on GitHub Pages, and automates community contributions via GitHub Actions bots!

🌐 Live Web Directory

Experience instant fuzzy search, category filter pills, and 1-click clipboard URL copying on the interactive web directory:
👉 https://ritualdev-lab.github.io/DevShelf/

✨ What's Included in v1.0.0

  • 34 Curated Resources Across 7 Shelves:

    • 🔌 Free Public APIs: 7 high-utility APIs with zero API key required (JSONPlaceholder, PokeAPI, Cat Facts, REST Countries, Open-Meteo, etc.)
    • 🤖 AI Developer Tools & Agents: GitWhisper, Ollama, Open-WebUI, AutoHeal-QA
    • ⚡ CLI Productivity Tools: eza, bat, ripgrep, fzf, zoxide
    • 🧪 Testing, QA & Reliability: Playwright, Vitest, k6, MSW
    • ☁️ Cloud Free Tiers & Databases: Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, Neon, Upstash, Turso
    • 🤝 Contributors Wanted: Curated repositories with good-first-issue labels
    • 🎁 Developer Discounts & Startup Perks: GitHub Student Developer Pack, AWS Activate, Google Cloud for Startups, Microsoft Founders Hub, MongoDB, DigitalOcean Hatch, JetBrains

  • 🤖 Zero-Friction Issue-to-Shelf Automation:

    • Submit a tool or API in 30 seconds using structured GitHub Issue Forms (.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/).
    • An automated GitHub Action parses submissions, validates URL liveliness, updates JSON databases, regenerates README.md and the web index, and merges with a congratulatory bot comment!

  • 🛡️ Built-In Reliability & CI/CD:

    • Biome-powered formatting and strict linting.
    • Automated weekly URL health check bot (healthcheck.yml) detecting deprecated tools and dead links.
    • Continuous static deployment to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions.

🤝 How to Add Your Project

Want to get featured on DevShelf? It takes less than 30 seconds:

  1. Open a submission form under DevShelf Issues.
  2. Fill in your project name, repository/API URL, and a 1-sentence description.
  3. Our bot automatically validates and merges your project onto the shelf!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/RitualDev-Lab/DevShelf/commits/v1.0.0

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