10 Development Tools Recommended by Startup Founders| Roadsleeper.com

What are the tools that help tech startups get the job done? Here are some suggestions.

Dev tools are the unsung heroes behind a lot of technology innovations. They make it easy for people with great ideas to create and maintain the technology behind their products and services.

If you are a budding entrepreneur or a toiling techie yourself, you might have wondered what dev tools tech startups swear by.

And SiliconRepublic.com has your back. We asked our Start-up of the Week participants to tell us about the necessary tools.

Here are 10 they recommend.

AWS amplifier

John Hannon, CEO and founder of SalesTier (formerly Gain Grain), recommended AWS Amplify. This helps front-end web and mobile developers build, deploy, and host full-stack applications on Amazon Web Services.

Hannon said he couldn’t have done so much so quickly without it. “It’s really like having a team of engineers to set up a service, deploy and scale it, and all from my command line.”

He added that Amplify has many features built in that have made product building “so much easier.”

“It has allowed me to focus on the core product and outsource the maintenance to AWS.

Unity

Liltoda founder and CEO Professor Deirdre Murray said she and her team relied heavily on Unity’s game software development platform while creating the CogniTot app.

CogniTot is a tablet-based gamified assessment program for toddlers. Without tools like Unity, it would have taken Liltoda much longer to build and customize the app, Murray said.

Jira

Jira is part of a suite of products owned by Australian software player Atlassian.

Like fellow Atlassian platform Trello, Jira offers Kanban-style bulletin boards, as well as scrum boards, progress reports, and other workplace management features. Jira focuses on software development, enabling bug tracking and agile project management.

It was recommended by Cardo AI CEO and co-founder Altin Kadareja, as well as Volograms CEO and co-founder Rafael Pagés.

Bitbucket

Many people who find a particular Atlassian product works well for them may delve into the company’s other offerings as well.

Pagés of Volograms said the teams are “heavy users of the Atlassian suite” — from Jira to Bitbucket, which is a Git-based source code repository for teams using Jira.

“We use it in all teams to organize our work, track the roadmap, track bugs, customer support and as an internal website with all the information related to the company, our processes and our products.”

GitHub

GitHub’s tagline is “where the world builds software”.

Recommended by the team at Cardo AI, the code hosting platform helps developers store and manage their code, track and manage changes, and collaborate with others.

PyTorch

Originally developed by Meta AI, PyTorch’s open source machine learning platform is used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing.

It offers a lot of resources and tutorials, making it a good option for beginners. Jason Mowles, CEO and co-founder of CergenX, recommends it.

TensorFlow

Another recommendation from the team at CergenX, TensorFlow is an open source software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

“PyTorch and tensorFlow are key to small businesses leveraging AI,” said Mowles. “It would be almost impossible for a small business to develop its own AI framework.

Jupiter

Jupyter is an interactive web development environment for notebooks, code and data. It was recommended to us by the team at Cardo AI.

FastAPI

Another recommendation from Cardo AI, this web framework is used to build APIs with the Python 3.7+ programming language, based on standard Python type hints.

MLflow

A final recommendation from the Cardo AI team, MLflow is an open source platform designed to manage the machine learning lifecycle. It helps developers consider aspects such as experimentation, reproducibility, deployment, and a central model repository.

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