

Ihtesham Ali
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@ihteshamali
I write on technology and business. Helping you understand AI.









Software companies give developers a free tier the way casinos give gamblers a free drink. So, a coder named R.I. Pienaar built a directory of free developer tools you can use to build an entire product without paying. It is called FREE-FOR-DEV. You open it, choose what your project needs, and it shows you which companies will provide it for free and exactly where the limits begin. → Cloud hosting → Databases → APIs → Authentication → Email delivery → File storage → Monitoring → Analytics → CI/CD → AI models → Security tools → Error tracking → Payment systems → Design resources → Testing platforms The list now covers more than 50 categories. And these are actual free tiers. A 14-day trial does not qualify. A service must remain free for at least a year if the offer is time-limited. Tools that place basic security like TLS behind a paid plan can also be rejected. Beside every service, you can see the allowance before signing up. How many requests you get. How much storage is included. How many users it supports. Which features require money. The project has collected 130,000 GitHub stars, more than 7,000 commits, and contributions from over 1,600 people. They keep adding new services and removing the ones that quietly kill their free plans. You could assemble the hosting, database, authentication, monitoring, email, analytics, and deployment stack for your next project without paying anything. It may be the only startup budget where every line ends in $0.



Can AI’s bosses work together to control the technology’s risks? “If we have to talk, we’ll talk,” says @elonmusk. On the latest episode of The Insider, he tells @zannymb that the industry’s rivals can “set aside personal differences for the good of the world”. Tune in to the full interview from 6pm London time here: bit.ly/4fvUlxt




