Awesome SaaS Services - Brought to You by GetStream.io

This is a curated list of the best in class SaaS services for developers and business owners. Here at Stream, we use a number of services to keep our business up and running smoothly, promote our content, etc., and we've decided to share some of the services that we use, in addition to other great SaaS platforms that may benefit your business.

As always, please feel free to make Pull Requests to add additional offerings that you feel may help the community.

Our Favorites for 2020

• Stream (Of course)
• Algolia
• Pusher
• Postman
• SendBird
• Auth0
• Digits
• Crashlytics
• MessageBird
• KeenIO

Infrastructure, Engineering & APIs

Calendarific - Enterprise-grade Public holiday API service for over 200 countries. Free plan includes 1000 calls per month.

Dataflow kit - Turn websites into structured data with a simple point-and-click toolkit. Dataflow Kit is Web scraping open source framework written in Go. DFK platform provides easy and comfortable way to extract data from web pages.

ProxyCrawl - Bypass captchas and blocks, and crawl javascript pages with a simple to use API service.

Stream - Don't re-invent the wheel feed; grow without worrying about the scalability, reliability and maintenance of your feeds. Save months of development headache and focus on what makes your app unique.

Scraper API - Scraper API handles proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs for you, so you can scrape any web page with a simple API call.

Plaid - Develop the future of financial services. Plaid enables applications to connect with users’ bank accounts.

GitHub - How people build software. Millions of developers use GitHub to build personal projects, support their businesses, and work together on open source technologies.

GitLab - Tools for modern developers. GitLab unifies issues, code review, CI and CD into a single UI.

Postman - A powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing.

DeveloperHub.io - Managed service to create beautiful powerful developer hubs. Build your product and API documentation. Upload your OpenAPI spec to get entire auto-generated API references.

SerpApi - API to scrape and extract search engine results. Including advanced data structures like knoweledge graph, reviews, and maps. Works with Google, Baidu, and Bing.

Sales

HubSpot - Generate leads, close deals & manage your pipeline with the Hubspot growth stack.

SalesforceIQ - SalesforceIQ is an out-of-the-box sales app that gets your team up and running in minutes.

RealtimeCRM - RealtimeCRM lets you manage your contacts, enrich your leads and track your opportunities through a sales pipeline as well as schedule appointments, integrate with finance systems like Xero and Mail automation platforms such as MailChimp.

Data, Analytics & Monitoring

AppSignal - Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts, detect anomalies — all in one tool.

Sentry - Sentry’s real-time error tracking gives you insight into production deployments and information to reproduce and fix crashes.

Datadog - Real-time performance monitoring. See granular metrics from your entire stack, from application-level to your actual hosts and VMs.

New Relic - Monitor and optimize your entire technology stack — from your infrastructure and applications to browser and mobile apps.

KeenIO - With Keen’s developer-friendly APIs, it’s easy to collect, explore, and visualize data anywhere. Apps and websites, customer-facing dashboards, IoT devices, you name it.

Crashlytics - A powerful and lightweight crash reporting system for your apps.

Healthchecks.io - Cron job monitoring. Get alerted when your cron jobs don't run on time.

Image Processing

ImgIX - ImgIX optimizes and delivers images fast to grab your users’ attention & increase sales.

Cloudinary - Cloudinary is the image back-end for web and mobile developers. An end-to-end solution for all your image-related needs.

ExtractTable.com - API service to extract tabular data from images and PDFs. Free Demo Here

Productivity & Organization

Slack - Whatever work means for you, Slack brings all the pieces and people you need together so you can actually get things done.

Trello - Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible and rewarding way.

Taskade - Taskade is a cross-platform collaboration tool for teams. Create team checklists, notes, and outlines, and chat together in real-time.

Reminder Bot - Receive regular grouped messages for daily, weekly or monthly routines. Once setup this chat bot will send you notifications to ensure that your tasks are completed and logged over time.

Metatask - Metatask automates management of repeating business workflows, admin work, HR processes. A simple and flexible workflow management app.

Calendarific - Allows developers to fetch dates of holidays and observances in applications. The database covers over 200 countries worldwide

Tefter - Tefter is a bookmarking app for individuals and teams. There is a Slack integration to collaborate with your team. Tefter is free for open source teams.

SMS & Messaging

Twilio - Build apps that communicate with everyone in the world. Voice & Video, Messaging, and Authentication APIs for every application.

SendBird - Messaging SDK & chat API for mobile apps and websites. Enable in-app messaging for your mobile apps and websites using SendBird messaging SDK and chat API.

MessageBird - A messaging API that is packed with features and customizable parameters that enable high volume and demanding message senders to use the platform with ease.

Layer - The power of messaging for every mobile and web product. Everything you need, from UI to infrastructure, to boost retention, engagement or drive transactions with the power of rich messaging.

OneSignal - High volume, cross platform push notification delivery.

Pusher - Everything you need to build scalable realtime apps.

Applozic - Chat API & In-App Messaging SDK for Mobile & Web Apps. Innovate fast, save development cost and delight users with a scalable, secure and customizable Chat.

Authentication

Auth0 - Add authentication to your web and mobile apps in under 10 minutes.

LoginRadius - Managed User Authentication service, super easy implementation, powerful User Management, rich analytics, user import, third party business apps integration, 24x7 Support, and many more. For developers FREE tier available.

Digits - Grow and verify users around the world. Digits helps you onboard your mobile app users with simple phone number authentication so you can build safe, viral communities. Don’t ask people to create passwords they’ll forget - delight them with a quick and easy login experience.

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

Section.io - Faster websites. More security and scalability. The features you look for in a Content Delivery Network, in one, easy-to-use tool built for agile teams.

Email Hosting

Google Apps (Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Gmail) - All you need to do your best work, together in one package that works seamlessly from your computer, phone or tablet.

Outgoing Email Services

SendGrid - Email delivery and transactional email service.

MailChimp - World’s leading email marketing platform, sending over a billion emails every day.

Mailgun - The email service for developers. Powerful APIs that enable you to send, receive and track email effortlessly.

Mandrill - Mandrill is a transactional email API for MailChimp users. It's reliable, powerful, and ideal for sending data-driven emails, including targeted e-commerce and personalized one-to-one messages.

Search

Algolia - A hosted Search API that delivers instant and relevant results from the first keystroke.

Amazon Elasticsearch (AWS) - Fully managed, reliable, and scalable Elasticsearch service.

Payment Processing

Stripe - Stripe is the best software platform for running an internet business. They handle billions of dollars every year for forward-thinking businesses around the world.

Bill - Get paid 2x-3x faster with ACH and credit cards. Magically simple business payments that work with your accounting software.

Payroll

JustWorks - Big or small, all teams deserve the best. JustWorks is leveling the playing field with seamless payroll, great and affordable benefits, and comprehensive compliance coverage, all in one cutting-edge product designed for you to work fearlessly.

Gusto - For HR people who do everything. One intuitive place to manage payroll, benefits, and HR for your business.

Recruiting

Recruiterbox - Recruiterbox is recruitment software that simplifies and optimizes your hiring process. Post job openings, manage candidates, collaborate with colleagues and use data to help you make an informed decision – all in one place.

Mapping

Mapbox - Make maps that move you. Whether you are visualizing millions of rows of data, tracking assets in real time, routing fleets around traffic, or making your app look beautiful, Mapbox is the platform that powers location and lets you build the experience in your app.

Chat & Support

Stream Chat – Build real-time chat in less time. Rapidly ship in-app messaging with our highly reliable chat infrastructure. Drive in-app conversion, engagement, and retention with the Stream Chat messaging platform API & SDKs.

Intercom - Intercom makes customer messaging products for sales, marketing, and support teams, connected on one platform.

Desk - Customer support software that makes customers happy.

Jitbit - Neat and affordable customer service app (email, live chat, mobile apps etc.)

Kommunicate - Live Chat, FAQs and Bots integration for Customer Support.

Social Media

Buffer - Buffer shares your content at the best possible times throughout the day so that your followers and fans see your updates more often. Get the most out of each post.

Crowdfire - Crowdfire provides a dashboard for users to manage their Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram accounts on the fly.

ManageFlitter - ManageFlitter provides you with a set of easy to use tools to empower you to work smarter and faster with Twitter.

DNS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Route 53 - Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications.

Cloudflare - Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet. Our Anycast technology enables our benefits to scale with every server we add to our growing footprint of data centers.

Database Hosting

Compose - Backups, replication, and complete monitoring. Three essentials of a production database deployment. Spend your time building apps, and let Compose worry about production database operations.

Design

Invision - The world's leading prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform.

Security

Virushee - Privacy-oriented, file/data scanning service utilizing hybrid heuristic and AI-assisted engine.

Machine Learning

IBM Watson - Simplifies the process of preparing data and makes it easier to run predictive analysis.

Google Prediction API - Cloud-based machine learning and pattern matching tool.

Big ML - BigML is user-friendly and developer-friendly Machine learning API that mainly concentrates on decision trees.

Customer Data Management

Hull - Powerful customer data platform to combine, cleanse, enrich, and sync any customer data across all your tools in real-time.

Content Management Systems

Tipe - Next generation API-first CMS. Create your content with powerful editing tools and access it from anywhere with a GraphQL or REST API.