As developers, we end up bookmarking a bunch of random tools that quietly save us hours every week. Here's a short, practical list of websites I actually use in day-to-day dev work — no fluff, just useful stuff.
🌐 Free Public APIs - APIs for side projects & experiments
👉 https://www.freepublicapis.com/
When you're building demos, learning a new framework, or testing API integrations:
- Find free APIs by category (weather, crypto, movies, etc.)
- Great for side projects and mock data
- Saves you from spinning up fake backends
🎨 Carbon - Pretty code snippets for sharing
Turn ugly screenshots of code into beautiful ones. Perfect for:
- Documentation
- Blog posts
- Slides
- X/LinkedIn flexing
You paste code → pick a theme → export image → look 10x more professional.
🖼️ Favicon.io - Generate favicons in seconds
Favicons are one of those things you always forget until the very end. This site lets you:
- Generate favicons from text, emojis, or images
- Download all required sizes
- Drop them straight into your project
No more "why is the default browser icon showing?" moments.
📁 Sample Files - Test files for dev & QA
👉 https://www.mzeeshan.me/samplefiles
Need a random PDF, image, video, or large file for testing uploads, previews, or download flows? This site has:
- Different file formats
- Different sizes
- One-click downloads
Extremely handy for frontend testing and QA scenarios.
🔧 Uiverse - Ready-to-use UI components
A community-driven collection of buttons, toggles, cards, loaders, and more. Great when:
- You want quick UI inspiration while shaping product experiences
- You need a component fast and don't want to design from scratch
- You're prototyping and don't care about pixel perfection (yet)
All components are open-source and published under the MIT License.
📚 DevDocs - All docs in one place
This is basically Google for documentation, but better:
- Actively maintained, free, and open source
- Offline support
- Multiple libraries/frameworks in one UI
If you're tired of juggling 10 tabs for MDN, React docs, and Node docs - this one's a keeper.
🗺️ Roadmap.sh - Learning paths for developers
If you ever feel lost about what to learn next, roadmap.sh is gold:
- Clear learning roadmaps for frontend, backend, DevOps, AI, etc.
- Great for juniors and seniors who want to fill knowledge gaps
- Helps you structure learning instead of randomly hopping tutorials
Think of it as Google Maps for your dev career.
⭐ Honorable Mention: SVG Crop
Simple but clutch tool:
- Upload or paste an SVG
- Automatically crop or trim empty space
- Download or copy a clean, optimized SVG
A lifesaver when downloaded SVGs come with random whitespace.
Final Thoughts
None of these tools are "revolutionary", but together they remove small daily annoyances - and that's where real productivity gains come from.
If you've got similar low-key useful websites, drop them in the comments. I'm always down to steal good dev bookmarks 😄
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