# Just Ship Now

> A curated directory of tools for developers, indie hackers, and startup builders.

## Author

Alex Cloudstar (https://alexcloudstar.com). A solo full-stack developer and product builder with 8 years of experience shipping production software and 2 years as an indie hacker.

## Directory

144 curated tools across 4 sections. Browse all at https://justship.now/browse.

### Ideation & Planning

- [Boilerplates](https://justship.now/categories/boilerplates): 6 tools
- [Frameworks](https://justship.now/categories/frameworks): 6 tools
- [UI & Design](https://justship.now/categories/ui-design): 7 tools
- [Icons](https://justship.now/categories/icons): 6 tools

### Development & Building

- [Libraries](https://justship.now/categories/libraries): 6 tools
- [AI](https://justship.now/categories/ai): 6 tools
- [Database](https://justship.now/categories/database): 5 tools
- [ORM](https://justship.now/categories/orm): 4 tools
- [Authentication](https://justship.now/categories/authentication): 5 tools
- [Backend](https://justship.now/categories/backend): 4 tools
- [APIs](https://justship.now/categories/apis): 4 tools
- [Internationalization](https://justship.now/categories/internationalization): 6 tools
- [Testing](https://justship.now/categories/testing): 5 tools
- [Jobs & Queues](https://justship.now/categories/jobs-queues): 5 tools
- [Payments](https://justship.now/categories/payments): 6 tools
- [Accessibility](https://justship.now/categories/accessibility): 4 tools

### Infrastructure & Deployment

- [Storage](https://justship.now/categories/storage): 6 tools
- [Hosting](https://justship.now/categories/hosting): 7 tools
- [CI/CD](https://justship.now/categories/ci-cd): 5 tools
- [DevOps](https://justship.now/categories/devops): 5 tools
- [CMS](https://justship.now/categories/cms): 7 tools
- [Monitoring](https://justship.now/categories/monitoring): 5 tools
- [Logging](https://justship.now/categories/logging): 5 tools

### Growth & Operations

- [Email](https://justship.now/categories/email): 6 tools
- [Marketing](https://justship.now/categories/marketing): 6 tools
- [Analytics](https://justship.now/categories/analytics): 7 tools

## Notes

- [What Is DR? Domain Rating Explained, Since Everyone Keeps Asking](https://justship.now/blog/what-is-dr-domain-rating-explained): I keep mentioning DR on X and getting the same reply: what's DR? Here's what Domain Rating actually is, how Ahrefs calculates it, and why chasing the number is the wrong goal.
- [I Was Losing Context Across 100 Chats, So I Built My Own Memory](https://justship.now/blog/mybutler-local-first-ai-assistant): A hundred open chats and no idea which one had the context I needed, so I built mybutler: a local, provider-agnostic AI assistant that remembers outside of any single conversation and only retrieves what's actually relevant.
- [I've Shipped Seven Products. Distribution Is Still the One I Haven't Solved.](https://justship.now/blog/distribution-is-still-the-hard-part): Building software got fast. Getting anyone to use it didn't. Here's what actually moved the needle after seven launches, numbers included.
- [Building in Public With Nothing to Show](https://justship.now/blog/building-in-public-with-nothing-to-show): Why this newsletter exists, what I'm actually going to write about, and why I'm doing it in public instead of waiting until it's ready.