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Empowering builders: introducing the Dev Alliance and Workers Launchpad Cohort #4

2024-09-27

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Today we’re announcing the Dev Starter Pack, an alliance of innovative tools for developers to get started with discounts and free services. We’re also excited to share an update on our Workers Launchpad Program.

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.

Introducing Dev Starter Pack: the tools you need to start building your startup

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. 

What will you build?

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.

Introducing Workers Launchpad Cohort #4

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:

Adster

Hyperscale revenue powered by real-time data intelligence and AI

Almeta

Predict customer behavior on your website

Best Parents

Disruptive educational travel marketplace for Gen Z under 18

Comigo

Companion app to make therapy an engaging daily practice

Datastrato

A unified data catalog for generative AI infrastructure

Equimake

Create professional 3D projects without technical experience

Evefan

Your own Internet scale events infrastructure

Eventuall

Connecting stars with their fans in paid meet & greets and virtual experiences

Fermat

No-code solution to deploy AI models as internal tools

Fiberplane

Development tool that uses observability data to help test and debug APIs

Firetiger

An engineering observability tool that operates at scale inside customer infrastructure

Flightcast

Video-first podcast hosting & distribution

FlightLevel Technologies

AI Analytics and Footage in the aviation industry.

Gitlip

Powerful, collaborative and lightweight computing platform based on Git

GrackerAI

AI-powered organic growth engine for cybersecurity B2B SaaS

Hackernoon

Community-driven blogging network read by millions of technologists

Hanabi.REST

Prompt to REST API with AI-driven building, testing, and deployment

Infrastack

Next-gen application intelligence and observability platform for developers

June

AI productivity companion

Leed AI

Combined marketing workflows, website, and customer journey for a seamless, AI-accelerated experience

lookbk

Make the Internet more shoppable, starting with fashion on socials

Materialized Intelligence

Data-intensive inference solutions

Maxint

Multi-platform money management powered by AI

Midio

Visual tool to build software and AI agents

NikaPlanet

Transformative geospatial analytics experience with Google Colab, QGIS, ChatGPT, and Miro in one solution

NotHotDog

AI-Powered API Testing Tool

Outerbase

View, edit, query, and visualize your data with AI

Procureezy

AI procurement platform to empower hardware engineers to source smarter and launch sooner

Proma

Process management and automation platform to get work done fast

Render Better

Increase e-commerce revenue by optimizing your site speed, automatically

Sherpo

AI-first no-code platform to build and sell digital content

Speak_

AI platform to surface top talent by evaluating candidates against custom criteria

Tightknit

Embedded community engagement platform built for SaaS

Tinfoil

Powerful analytics with cryptographic privacy guarantees

Velvet

AI gateway to monitor, evaluate, and optimize features

Webstudio

An advanced visual site builder that connects to any headless CMS

Zipr

Streamlined visitor management

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!

Cloudflare's connectivity cloud protects entire corporate networks, helps customers build Internet-scale applications efficiently, accelerates any website or Internet application, wards off DDoS attacks, keeps hackers at bay, and can help you on your journey to Zero Trust.

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