Always Free - Tech Resources for Builders and Creators

You know what you're building. The bottleneck isn't the idea — it's the hours lost evaluating tools, second-guessing your stack, and rebuilding things that didn't need to be built.

This is a working list of the tech resources that actually earn their place, drawn from twenty years of shipping software inside companies like Home Depot, Amazon, and Macy's. What to use, what to skip, and why.