Cloudflare’s Developer Platform already makes it easy for anyone to go from idea to launch. It gives you all the tools you need in one place to work on that class project, build out your portfolio, and create full-stack applications. We want students to be able to use these tools without worrying about the cost, so starting today, students at least 18 years old in the United States with a verified .edu email can receive 12 months of free access to Cloudflare’s developer features. This is the first step for Cloudflare for Students, and we plan to continue expanding our support for the next generation of builders.

Eligible student accounts will receive increased usage allotments for our developer features compared to our free plan. That includes Workers, Pages Functions, KV, Containers, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Durable Objects, Workers Logpush, and Queues. With these, you can build everything from APIs and full-stack apps to data pipelines and websites. After 12 months, you can easily renew your subscription by upgrading to our Workers Paid plan. If you choose not to, your account will automatically revert to the free plan, and you won't be charged. Here’s a look at the increased usage allotments students can receive today. Above those free allotments, our standard usage rates will apply.

You’ll also have access to a dedicated Discord channel just for students. We want to see what you’re building! This is a place to connect with peers, get support, and share ideas in a community of student developers.

Curious about what’s possible with Cloudflare’s developer features? Here are some projects from our community:

by Daniel Foldi

Adventure is a text-based adventure game running on Cloudflare Workers that uses Workers AI to generate the stories with the @cf/google/gemma-3-12b-it model. 

The project’s developer chose Workers AI with the OpenNext adapter because it made deployment simple and handled scaling automatically. It uses the Workers Paid plan mainly to enable Workers Logpush and get access to detailed logs for better monitoring and analysis.

When a new game starts, the server gives the AI a custom prompt to set the scene and explain how the adventure should work. From there, each time the player makes a choice, their story history is sent back to the server, which asks the AI to continue the narrative, allowing the story to evolve dynamically based on the player’s choices.

The code below shows how this logic is implemented:

"use server";
import { getCloudflareContext } from "@opennextjs/cloudflare";

async function prime(env: CloudflareEnv) {
  const id = Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000);//unique ID for each game run
  const messages = [
    {
      role: "user",
      content:
        `The user is playing a text-based adventure game. Each game is different, this is game ${id}. Your first job is to create a short background story in 3-4 sentences. Scenarios may include interesting locations such as jungles, deserts, caves.
        After the first message, each of your messages will be responses to the user interaction. State three short options (A, B, C). The user responses will be the chosen action. Your responses should end by asking the user about their choice.
        Your message will be shown to the user directly, so avoid "Certainly", "Great", "Let's get started", and other filler content, and avoid bringing up technical details such as "this is game #id".
        The games should have a win condition that is actually feasible given the story, and if the player loses, the message should end with "Try again.".
        `,
    },
  ];
  //Call Workers AI to generate the first response (story intro)
  const { response } = await env.AI.run("@cf/google/gemma-3-12b-it", { messages });

  return [
    ...messages,
    { role: "assistant", content: response }
  ];
}

/**
 * Main server action for the adventure game.
 * If no input yet, it primes the game with the opening story
 * If there is input, it continues the story based on the full history
 * Uses getCloudflareContext from @opennextjs/cloudflare to access env.
 */
export async function adventureAction(input: any[]) {
  let { env } = await getCloudflareContext({ async: true });

  return input.length === 0
  ? await prime(env)
  : [...input,
      { role: "assistant", content: (await env.AI.run("@cf/google/gemma-3-12b-it", { messages: input })).response }
  ];
}

by Matt Cowley

DNS over Discord is a bot that lets you run DNS lookups right inside Discord. Instead of switching to a terminal or online tool, you can use simple slash commands to check records like A, AAAA, MX, TXT, and more.

The developer behind the project chose Cloudflare Workers because it’s a great platform for running small JavaScript apps that handle requests, which made it a good fit for Discord’s slash commands. Since every command translates into a request and the bot sees a lot of traffic, the free tier wasn’t enough, so it now runs on Workers Paid to keep up reliably without hitting request limits.

In this project, the Worker checks if the request is a Discord interaction, and if so, it sends it to the right command (e.g., /dig, /multi-dig, etc.), using a handler that calls out to a custom framework for Discord slash commands. If it’s not from Discord, it can also serve routes like the privacy page or terms of service.

Here’s what that looks like in code:

export default {
  // Process all requests to the Worker
  fetch: async (request, env, ctx) => {
    try {
      // Include the env in the context we pass to the handler
      ctx.env = env;

      // Check if it's a Discord interaction (or a health check)
      const resp = await handler(request, ctx);
      if (resp) return resp;

      // Otherwise, process the request
      const url = new URL(request.url);

      if (request.method === 'GET' && url.pathname === '/privacy')
        return new textResponse(Privacy);

      if (request.method === 'GET' && url.pathname === '/terms')
        return new textResponse(Terms);

      // Fallback if nothing matches
      return new textResponse(null, { status: 404 });
    } catch (err) {
      // Log any errors
      captureException(err);

      // Re-throw the error
      throw err;
    }
  },
};

by James Ross

placeholders.dev is a service that generates placeholder images, making it easy for developers to prototype and scaffold websites without dealing with hosting or asset management. Users can generate placeholders instantly with a simple URL, such as: https://images.placeholders.dev/350x150

Since placeholders are typically used in early development, speed and consistency matter, and images need to load instantly so the workflow isn’t interrupted. Running on Cloudflare Workers makes the service fast and consistent no matter where developers are.

This project uses the Workers Paid plan because it regularly exceeds the free-tier limits on requests and compute time. The Worker below shows the core of how the service works. When a request comes in, it looks at the URL path (like /300x150) to determine the size of the placeholder, applies some defaults for style, and then returns an SVG image on the fly.

export default {
  async fetch(request: Request, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext) {
    try {
      const url = new URL(request.url);
      const cache = caches.default;

      // Handle requests for the placeholder API
      if (url.host === 'images.placeholders.dev' || url.pathname.startsWith('/api')) {
        // Try edge cache first
        const cached = await cache.match(url, { ignoreMethod: true });
        if (cached) return cached;

        // Default placeholder options
        const imageOptions: Options = {
   dataUri: false, // always return an unencoded SVG source
          width: 300,
          height: 150,
          fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
          fontWeight: 'bold',
          bgColor: '#ddd',
          textColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.5)',
        };

        // Parse sizes from path (e.g. /350 or /350x150)
        const sizeParts = url.pathname.replace('/api', '').replace('/', '').split('x');
        if (sizeParts[0]) {
          const width = sanitizeNumber(parseInt(sizeParts[0], 10));
          const height = sizeParts[1] ? sanitizeNumber(parseInt(sizeParts[1], 10)) : width;
          imageOptions.width = width;
          imageOptions.height = height;
        }

        // Generate SVG placeholder
        const response = new Response(simpleSvgPlaceholder(imageOptions), {
          headers: { 'content-type': 'image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8' },
        });

        // Cache result
        response.headers.set('Cache-Control', 'public, max-age=' + cacheTtl);
        ctx.waitUntil(cache.put(url, response.clone()));

        return response;
      }

      return new Response('Not Found', { status: 404 });
    } catch (err) {
      console.error(err);
      return new Response('Internal Error', { status: 500 });
    }
  },
};

Check out Built With Workers to see what other developers are building with our developer platform.

This offering is available to United States students at least 18 years old with a verified .edu billing email address.

Just ensure your verified .edu email address is added to your billing details and add our Workers Paid plan to your subscription.

_{Note: in order to receive the credit, your verified .edu email address needs to be your billing}

While our first offering is primarily for institutions in the US, we’re working on expanding support for our students in other countries and plan to add additional higher education domain names after launch. If you’re at an educational institution outside of the United States, please reach out to us and apply for your educational/academic domain to be added. We’ll let you know as soon as it becomes available in your region. Check our Cloudflare for Students page for updates and keep an eye out for emails if you have an account with a newly supported domain.

Whether you're gearing up for your first hackathon, launching a side project, or looking to build the next big thing, you can get started today with free access and join a global developer community already building on Cloudflare.

Get started by signing up or requesting access today.

Creating from the ground up often means spending countless hours piecing together the right development stack, navigating different pricing models, and managing growing costs — all of which can take your focus away from what truly matters: building your product and growing your business.

Hey! Dani Grant here, one of the first PMs at Cloudflare and co-founder of Jam.dev. Ten years ago (during 2014’s Birthday Week), Cloudflare launched Universal SSL, making SSL free on the Internet for the first time, and in one night doubling the size of the encrypted web.

I was a college student back then, and I immediately became enraptured by Cloudflare’s mission: helping build a better Internet. As part of this mission, Cloudflare has developed powerful tools typically accessible only to Internet giants, oftentimes offering them for free to developers and individuals alike. Heck yeah! I joined Cloudflare in January 2015, and 5 years after that, co-founded a developer tool company called Jam, inspired by the impact that I saw building tools for developers could have while at Cloudflare.

It’s now 10 years later, and a lot has changed –– “software ate the world” and it’s now powering all aspects of our lives, from health to finances to how we work. It’s more important than ever to empower every developer with the best tools available, because the faster we build software, the sooner people’s experiences improve.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the Dev Starter Pack, an alliance of like-minded dev tool companies giving away their services for free, or heavily discounting them for developers who want to start companies and build the future.

Not only does this stack include all the tools you need to build a startup, it also includes all the tools you need to build AI-powered features. We believe that the next wave of startups will be AI-native, as AI becomes as ubiquitous as the electricity that powers the servers.

We haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s possible with AI, and we hope this launch gets developers closer to solving the challenges of building non-deterministic software.

If you’re a software engineer, and you want to build a project or a company and need an off the shelf stack of dev tools to get started, go to devstarterpack.io to start using all of these tools.

Each provider is offering developers a heavily discounted or even free plan to get started building. You can redeem these services by either using the special code “devstarterpack” or selecting “Dev Starter Pack” while applying to relevant programs.

We welcome more tools to join the alliance — this is just the beginning. If you are building a developer tool and would like to include your product in the Dev Starter Pack, let us know here, so we can include you. 

We are very excited to see what you will build. Please share with us in Cloudflare’s Discord and community forum, so we can support you however it makes sense.

Software developers are changing the world, and we believe in providing support to help you make an even greater impact. If you’re looking for additional funding or support, check out Cloudflare’s Launchpad for developers turned founders building startups.

Melissa and Chris from the Cloudflare for Startups team here. Our team is blown away by what customers are demonstrating on the Developer Platform. Just a few weeks ago, our Workers Launchpad Cohort #3 wrapped up. On Demo Day, customers demoed their applications built on Cloudflare, spanning AI, dev tools, IaaS, observability, SaaS, media, and beyond. We’re incredibly proud of Cohort #3 participants, and we look forward to their continued success with Cloudflare.

Following Demo Day of Workers Launchpad Cohort #3, we’ve been excited to receive a surge of new applications from startups around the world. These startups are pushing the boundaries of innovation, particularly in areas like observability, PaaS, AI, automation, e-commerce, and other industries. Many startups that applied this go-around demonstrated that they’ve built some great applications on Cloudflare, and today, we’re excited to announce the accepted participants for our upcoming Workers Launchpad Cohort #4.

Let’s take a look at what Cohort #4 participants are building in their own words:

The Cloudflare team is ecstatic to work with the amazing participants of Cohort #4. If you want to follow along on Cohort #4’s journey, be sure to follow @CloudflareDev on X and join our Developer Discord server.

Are you a startup building on Cloudflare? Apply for Cohort #5!

But oftentimes, open source maintainers struggle with the costs associated with running their projects and providing access to users all over the world. We’ve had the privilege of supporting incredible open source projects such as Git and the Linux Foundation through our open source program and learned first-hand about the places where Cloudflare can help the most.

Today, we're introducing a streamlined and expanded open source program: Project Alexandria. The ancient city of Alexandria is known for hosting a prolific library and a lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Lighthouse of Alexandria served as a beacon of culture and community, welcoming people from afar into the city. We think Alexandria is a great metaphor for the role open source projects play as a beacon for developers around the world and a source of knowledge that is core to making a better Internet. 

This project offers recurring annual credits to even more open source projects to provide our products for free. In the past, we offered an upgrade to our Pro plan, but now we’re offering upgrades tailored to the size and needs of each project, along with access to a broader range of products like Workers, Pages, and more. Our goal with Project Alexandria is to ensure every OSS project not only survives but thrives, with access to Cloudflare’s enhanced security, performance optimization, and developer tools — all at no cost.

We realize that open source projects have different needs. Some projects, like package repositories, may be most concerned about storage and transfer costs. Other projects need help protecting them from DDoS attacks. And some projects need a robust developer platform to enable them to quickly build and deploy scalable and secure applications.

With our new program we’ll work with your project to help unlock the following based on your needs:

• An upgrade to a Cloudflare Pro, Business, or Enterprise plan, which will give you more flexibility with more Cloudflare Rules to manage traffic with, Image Optimization with Polish to accelerate the speed of image downloads, and enhanced security with Web Application Firewall (WAF), Security Analytics, and Page Shield, to protect projects from potential threats and vulnerabilities.

• Increased requests to Cloudflare Workers and Pages, allowing you to handle more traffic and scale your applications globally.

• Increased R2 storage for builds and artifacts, ensuring you have the space needed to store and access your project’s assets efficiently.

• Enhanced Zero Trust access, including Remote Browser Isolation, no user limits, and extended activity log retention to give you deeper insights and more control over your project’s security.

Every open source project in the program will receive additional resources and support through a dedicated channel on our Discord server. And if there’s something you think we can do to help that we don’t currently offer, we’re here to figure out how to make it happen.

Many open source projects run within the limits of Cloudflare’s generous free tiers. Our mission to help build a better Internet means that cost should not be a barrier to creating, securing, and distributing your open source packages globally, no matter the size of the project. Indie or niche open source projects can still run for free without the need for credits. For larger open source projects, the annual recurring credits are available to you, so your money can continue to be reinvested into innovation, instead of paying for infrastructure to store, secure, and deliver your packages and websites. 

We’re dedicated to supporting projects that are not only innovative but also crucial to the continued growth and health of the internet. The criteria for the program remain the same:

• Operate solely on a non-profit basis and/or otherwise align with the project mission.

• Be an open source project with a recognized OSS license.

If you’re an open source project that meets these requirements, you can apply for the program here.

We’re incredibly lucky to have open source projects that we admire, and the incredible people behind those projects, as part of our program — including the OpenJS Foundation, OpenTofu, and JuliaLang.

OpenJS Foundation

Node.js has been part of our OSS Program since 2019, and we’ve recently partnered with the OpenJS Foundation to provide technical support and infrastructure improvements to other critical JavaScript projects hosted at the foundation, including Fastify, jQuery, Electron, and NativeScript.

One prominent example of the OpenJS Foundation using Cloudflare is the Node.js CDN Worker.  It’s currently in active development by the Node.js Web Infrastructure and Build teams and aims to serve all Node.js release assets (binaries, documentations, etc.) provided on their website. 

Aaron Snell explained that these release assets are currently being served by a single static origin file server fronted by Cloudflare. This worked fine up until a few years ago when issues began to pop up with new releases. With a new release came a cache purge, meaning that all the requests for the release assets were cache misses, causing Cloudflare to go forward directly to the static file server, overloading it. Because Node.js releases nightly builds, this issue occurs every day.

The CDN Worker plans to fix this by using Cloudflare Workers and R2 to serve requests for the release assets, taking all the load off the static file server, resulting in improved availability for Node.js downloads and documentation, and ultimately making the process more sustainable in the long run.

OpenTofu

OpenTofu has been focused on building a free and open alternative to proprietary infrastructure-as-code platforms. One of their major challenges has been ensuring the reliability and scalability of their registry while keeping costs low. Cloudflare's R2 storage and caching services provided the perfect fit, allowing OpenTofu to serve static files at scale without worrying about bandwidth or performance bottlenecks.

The OpenTofu team noted that it was paramount for OpenTofu to keep the costs of running the registry as low as possible both in terms of bandwidth and also in human cost. However, they also needed to make sure that the registry had an uptime close to 100% since thousands upon thousands of developers would be left without a means to update their infrastructure if it went down.

The registry codebase (written in Go) pre-generates all possible answers of the OpenTofu Registry API and uploads the static files to an R2 bucket. With R2, OpenTofu has been able to run the registry essentially for free with no servers and scaling issues to worry about.

JuliaLang

JuliaLang has recently joined our OSS Sponsorship Program, and we’re excited to support their critical infrastructure to ensure the smooth operation of their ecosystem. A key aspect of this support is enabling the use of Cloudflare’s services to help JuliaLang deliver packages to its user base.

According to Elliot Saba, JuliaLang had been using Amazon Lightsail as a cost-effective global CDN to serve packages to their user base. However, as their user base grew they would occasionally exceed their bandwidth limits and rack up serious cloud costs, not to mention experiencing degraded performance due to load balancer VMs getting overloaded by traffic spikes. Now JuliaLang is using Cloudflare R2, and the speed and reliability of R2 object storage has so far exceeded that of their own within-datacenter solutions, and the lack of bandwidth charges means JuliaLang is now getting faster, more reliable service for less than a tenth of their previous spend.

If your project fits our criteria, and you’re looking to reduce costs and eliminate surprise bills, we invite you to apply! We’re eager to help the next generation of open source projects make their mark on the internet.

For more details and to apply, visit our new Project Alexandria page. And if you know other projects that could benefit from this program, please spread the word!

With millions of developers around the world building on Cloudflare, we are constantly inspired by what you all are building with us. Every Developer Week, we’re excited to get your hands on new products and features that can help you be more productive, and creative, with what you’re building. But we know our job doesn’t end when we put new products and features in your hands during Developer Week. We also need to cultivate welcoming community spaces where you can come get help, share what you’re building, and meet other developers building with Cloudflare.

We’re excited to close out Developer Week by sharing updates on our Workers Launchpad program, our latest Developer Challenge, and the work we’re doing to ensure our community spaces – like our Discord and Community forums – are safe and inclusive for all developers.

In late 2022, we initiated the $2 billion Workers Launchpad Funding Program aimed at aiding the more than one million developers who use Cloudflare's Developer Platform. This initiative particularly benefits startups that are investing in building on Cloudflare to propel their business growth.

The Workers Launchpad Program offers a variety of resources to help builders scale faster and reach more customers. The program includes, but is not limited to:

• Fostering a community of like-minded founders

• Facilitating introductions to the Launchpad’s VC partner network of 40+ leading investors

• Company-building support and mentorship through virtual Founders Bootcamp sessions

• Organizing technical office hours with our engineers

• Access to preview upcoming Cloudflare products and Product Managers

• Culminating in a Demo Day, for participants to share their stories globally with investors and prospective customers.

So far, 50 amazing startups from 13 countries have successfully graduated from the Workers Launchpad program. We finished up Cohort #1 in March 2023, and Cohort #2 wrapped up August 2023.

Since the end of Cohort #2, we have received hundreds of new applications from startups across the globe. Startup applicants showcased incredible tools and software across a variety of industries, including AI, SaaS, Supply Chain, Media, Gaming, Hospitality, and Developer Productivity. While we were encouraged by this wave of applicants' ability to build amazing technology, there were a few that stood out that are leveraging Cloudflare’s Developer Suite to scale their business.

With that being said, we would like to introduce you to the 29 startups that have been chosen to participate in Cohort #3 of Workers Launchpad:

Below, you will find a brief summary of what problems these startups are looking to solve:

The Cloudflare team is looking forward to working with Cohort #3 participants and sharing what they are building on Cloudflare. To follow along with Cohort #3 of Workers Launchpad, follow @CloudflareDev and join our Developer Discord server.

Are you a startup and interested in joining Cohort #4? Apply here!

Now that Workers AI is GA, we’re excited to see what our community can build.  We’ve teamed up with our friends at DEV who will be running an AI Developer challenge, which officially launched on Wednesday, April 3, and runs until Sunday, April 14, 2024, when submissions close.

For this challenge, you will build a Workers AI application that makes use of AI task types from Cloudflare’s growing catalog of Open Models. Apps will be evaluated on innovation, creativity, and demonstration of underlying technology with prizes awarded by DEV for the best overall app, as well as projects leveraging multiple models and tasks. For more information and details on how to participate, including DEV’s rules and requirements, head over to the official challenge page.

Our community has been growing really fast over the past year, so fast that it’s becoming more difficult to welcome each new member that joins our Discord server every day, and Developer Week has always been one of the main drivers of this growth.

When you come into the Cloudflare developer community, it’s important to us that you’re entering a space that is safe and welcoming. Even though we already have rules for the server and community forums, we needed guidelines for our community programs, so that’s why we’ve created a new Code of Conduct that promotes inclusivity, respect, and will help us create a better community for everyone.

Do you want to be part of this and help us create a more inclusive and helpful community? Then please share your feedback and tell us what you would like to see improved in our community and our Discord server in this thread.

What AI applications can you build with Cloudflare? Instead of us telling you we reached out to a small handful of the numerous AI companies using Cloudflare to learn a bit about what they’re building and how Cloudflare is helping them on their journey.

We heard common themes from these companies about the challenges they face in bringing new products to market in the ever-changing world of AI ranging from training and deploying models, the ethical and moral judgements of AI, gaining the trust of users, and the regulatory landscape.  One area that is not a challenge is trusting their AI application infrastructure to Cloudflare.

Azule, based in Calgary, Canada, was founded to apply the power of AI to streamline and improve ecommerce customer service. It’s an exciting moment that, for the first time ever, we can now dynamically generate, deploy, and test code to meet specific user needs or integrations. This kind of flexibility is crucial to create a tool like Azule that is designed to meet this demand, offering a platform that can handle complex requirements and provide flexible integration options with other tools.

The AI space is evolving quickly and that applies to the rapid evolution of AI agent design patterns. These are essentially frameworks built upon LLM APIs, and they're showing immense potential. Azule effectively allows users to create AI agents which interact with their customers on behalf of their business. It's not just about addressing customer service queries anymore – AI agents can perform significant, ongoing tasks across various industries.

Azule is built entirely on Cloudflare, except for API calls to OpenAI.

The application relies on multiple Developer Platform and Cloudflare products and services.  Durable Objects and websockets are used for live chat.

“Durable Objects enabled us to build our MVP faster than we could have on any other platform, thanks to Cloudflare's thoughtful product design.” - Logan Grasby

Other products used by Azule:

• Queues for data processing.

• R2 for all data storage, including vector storage. Instead of using a vector database service, Azule relies entirely on Cloudflare's R2 and cache API for on-disk vector search.

• Workers KV for storing frequently accessed configuration data.

• D1 was implemented for their user database.

• Constellation (now Workers AI) for various labeling and summarization tasks.

• Workers for Platforms allows Azule AI to write and deploy custom features for the users.

• Pages for hosting our landing page and marketing content.

Other valuable features used include API shield, email workers, the mail channels integration for email, log push, outbound workers, among others!

“I firmly believe that AI agents are at home on the web. Everything Cloudflare builds has web optimization in mind and so it only makes sense to invest in the platform. By building on Cloudflare, we've made significant cost reductions, particularly by moving all our search solutions to R2. For example, many of our users want to store large datasets on Azule and make them searchable through their agents. Our previous search solutions, based on Pinecone and Milisearch, would have cost thousands of dollars per month to store and search through just one customer's data. With Cloudflare's R2 and cache API, we can now enable our customer's AI agent to comb through large datasets in less than 900ms, at a fraction of the cost.” - Logan Grasby

42able, headquartered in Wales, UK, is at the forefront of AI-driven solutions, dedicated to revolutionizing engagement with business documents. Through cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies, the company seeks to streamline, enhance, and redefine the way businesses interact with their documents.

The modern business landscape is inundated with vast volumes of documents, from contracts and reports to invoices and internal communications. Navigating, understanding, and extracting value from these documents can be time-consuming, error-prone, and often requires significant manual effort.

42able envisions a future where business documents are not just static pieces of information but dynamic assets that businesses can engage with interactively, efficiently, and intelligently.

“Launching an AI product has come with many unique challenges and uncertainties. Users expect AI to be perfect or near-perfect, and are much less forgiving of an AI making an error compared to a human making the same mistake. Decisions about how AI systems should act often involve moral or ethical judgments, which might not be straightforward and can be subject to societal debates. Training and deploying AI models is challenging. Cloudflare's solutions are making it much easier, than managing all the individual parts ourselves.” - James Finney

42able chose Cloudflare for fantastic performance in comparison to other cloud providers, in part due to the no cold boot times, competitive pricing, ease of use, fantastic local development features, and brilliant support. Their development times have decreased through the use of:

• Workers for all the APIs and re-occurring cron scripts.

• Pages for all application/platform front-end hosting

• KV for Angular apps.

• R2 to store cached personal user data R2.

• General DNS zone management

• DDOS protection

• DNS management

• Turnstile

• Zero Trust to secure login pages

They are starting to test with Constellation (now Workers AI) to host some of their models and D1 to support their database needs.

Layercode allows developers to build low-latency voice AI agents for web, mobile or phone. Their platform powers the real-time infrastructure required for companies to deliver responsive, engaging voice AI applications at global scale.

Cloudflare Workers power the core of their voice AI pipelines, ensuring that users experience zero cold starts and reliable performance when processing voice data. In addition, Cloudflare’s Durable Objects and DO SQL provide the consistent execution and storage environment needed for their hosted voice AI agents and various internal features.

WebRTC is essential for delivering smooth voice AI experiences on both web and mobile platforms. With Cloudflare Realtime’s extensive WebRTC product suite, Layercode can offer WebRTC support at scale, eliminating the typical complexities of hosting and scaling.

“Latency is everything when it comes to natural conversation with voice AI. Layercode chose Cloudflare because it’s the best platform for delivering low-latency voice AI experiences globally.” - Damien Tanner

Eclipse’s mission is to revolutionise the way businesses approach customer feedback. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Eclipse empowers users to make data-driven decisions by leveraging AI for comprehensive customer understanding. If your goals are to; reduce churn, drive growth or improve your customer experience, Eclipse puts the data at your fingertips and provides you actionable insights to drive your business.

Eclipse allows you to unify your Voice of Customer channels (i.e. phone, video calls, emails, support tickets, public reviews and surveys), the platform analyses it at scale and utilises Generative AI to provide key actions specific to your business. Focused on democratising data driven decision-making, Eclipse AI has launched a Freemium model, leveling the playing field for businesses of all sizes to utilise this tech.

“We believe the future of the internet is on the edge and Cloudflare is at the forefront of this revolution with a growing network that covers most major cities around the world. As a startup with limited resources, the Cloudflare developer platform has enabled our dev team to focus on building our product and not be burdened with managing infrastructure. Best of all, it scales automagically with a pay-as-you-go pricing model.” - Saad Irfani

Eclipse AI uses:

• Cloudflare Workers for the backend API.

• Cloudflare Pages for the frontend to deliver content across hundreds of cities worldwide.

• Cloudflare Images to serve cascaded versions of each asset

• Cloudflare R2 as the object store.

“As a platform that transcribes video/audio call recordings for VoC analytics, choosing a reliable object-store was an important decision. After the launch of R2 we switched from S3 and noticed a staggering 70% reduction in cost. Overall, we are believers in Cloudflare’s vision and are eagerly awaiting the release of D1 so that our entire stack can be powered by the edge.” - Saad Irfani

Embley, based in Sierre, Switzerland, is a Marketplace Automation Platform that powers the future of marketplace commerce by enabling businesses to scale better and faster.

The platform combines the most advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Process Mining to strengthen a fast end-to-end business process automation with products tailored to marketplaces businesses.

Cloudflare powers Embley’s frontend through Cloudflare Pages that serves what they call the “control center” to the users at the edge. The control center is the core of the back-office tools that users use to manage their marketplace operations.  The backend is powered by Workers, providing a serverless execution environment, connected to the frontend through the Cloudflare API Gateway.

“The primary reasons for choosing Cloudflare are the powerful serverless products that enable us to run an entire tech stack without having to care about infrastructure. Also, the scalability of Cloudflare’s global network is appealing. Finally, security is embedded into Cloudflare through the Zero Trust platform that enable us to secure both production but also the lower environments including the secured access to internal systems and apps.” - Laurent Christen

ChainFuse, based in San Francisco, CA, is a multichannel AI platform that assists organizations in collecting and analyzing user feedback on a large scale. Their AI-powered community tool aids support, community, and product teams in garnering valuable insights, facilitating more informed product decisions.

“We have used Google Cloud and AWS, but our experience with Cloudflare has particularly stood out. Since 2016, we have consistently chosen Cloudflare for our projects due to their excellent product range and reliable performance. Saying "it just works" is an understatement.” - Victor Sanchez

ChainFuse relies on Workers for the core of their backend infrastructure and a range of our security solutions to secure their applications and employees. WAF and its vast adaptability is a major defense, blocking an average of 48% of all incoming traffic, effectively weeding out known malicious traffic. Additionally, it employs rate limiting to prevent abuse. API Shield, used in conjunction with WAF, intercepts an average of 1.32% of the incoming traffic that manages to bypass WAF. The Zero Trust Gateway not only secures their employees but also is integrated into their product to prevent end users from exploiting the platform for malicious purposes.

ai.moda, headquartered in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, is building multiple AI tools with a focus on helping bridge humans, developers, and machines together. They’re currently building several ChatGPT plugins (such as CVEs and S3 storage), YourCrowd (MTurk compatible API for humans and bots), and Valkyrie (an automated zero-trust hardening for Linux applications and cloud workloads).

Plugins like CVEs by ai.moda bring real-time vulnerability information into ChatGPT.

“By using Workers, we’re able to create SaaS services at a scale and cost that just wouldn’t be possible without. If you want a new ChatGPT plugin, let us know on Friday, and by Monday we can have it developed and shipped in production! The rapid development allowed by Workers is a huge advantage for us.”- David Manouchehri

They chose Cloudflare mainly because of the Workers platform. Being able to deploy new code rapidly globally with a single command has greatly simplified their DevOps needs, and they no longer need to worry about whether they have enough resources to scale up.

ai.moda is a heavy user of Cloudflare Workers, Email Workers, Pages, R2, Durable Objects, Constellation (now Workers AI), Cache API, DMARC management, Access, WAF, logpush, DNS, Health Checks, Zaraz, and D1.

We share the opinion of many of these companies that witnessing the incredible breadth and versatility of AI technology and the impact it has on organizations and people is astonishing, and we can’t wait to see where this technology takes people. If you’re inspired by reading these stories and want to start building, check out the Startup program and our Cloudflare for AI solutions.

If you want to share your story about what you’ve built, reach out to us or join the Developers Discord.

***Since launching the Launchpad program in 2022, we have showcased a number of exciting startups looking to build the next big application. Whether innovative website designs, content delivery or AI-based features, the internet is waiting for the next big thing.

With that said, we are proud to announce our revamped Built With Workers site, an opportunity to showcase your projects with the developer community. Built With Workers will serve as a public facing repository of full-stack applications running on the Developer Platform to demonstrate how Cloudflare is helping developers build amazing applications.

Whether you're using R2 object storage to store web data, utilizing Workers to manage your application functionality or designing the next big web application UI with Pages, we love seeing what our customers are building!

To showcase your latest and greatest projects featured on Built with Workers, complete and submit our quick form to share your projects or business with us. Share how you're using Cloudflare products to build the application of your dreams or help expand developer knowledge with our developer community.

In 2018, we first launched our Open Source Software Sponsorships program, and since then, we've been listening to your feedback, and realized that it's time to introduce a fresh and enhanced version of the program that's more inclusive and better addresses the needs of the OSS community.

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Previously, our sponsorship focused on engineering tools, but we're excited to announce that we've now opened it to include any non-profit and open source projects.

To qualify for our Open Source Sponsorship Program, projects must be open source and meet the following criteria:

1. Operate on a non-profit basis.

2. Include a link back to our home page.

Please keep in mind that this program isn't intended for event sponsorships, but rather for project-based support.

As part of our sponsorship program, we offer the following benefits to projects:

• Free Cloudflare Pro Plan zone upgrade.

• Access to requested products (subject to the approval of the product team).

• Additional resources and support through our community forums and Discord server.

Can Cloudflare help your open source project be successful and sustainable? Fill out the application form to submit your project for review, and please share this so that more open source projects can be supported by Cloudflare.