A long, community-kept list of software and services with genuinely free tiers: hosting, databases, email, monitoring and much more.
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free-for.dev sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. free-for.dev is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use free-for.dev without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file free-for.dev as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
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