Best tools for Team Onboarding

Cross-machine dotfile manager with template support and encryption

Chezmoi manages dotfiles across multiple machines with template support for machine-specific configuration, secret encryption, and integration with password managers. It handles the complexity of maintaining consistent development environments across work laptops, personal machines, and servers. Over 15,000 GitHub stars with support for 1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass, and gpg encryption.

Kubernetes ChatOps bot for Slack, Teams, and Discord

Botkube is a Kubernetes ChatOps platform that brings cluster management into Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord. It provides real-time alerts for cluster events, enables kubectl command execution from chat, and supports automated workflows triggered by Kubernetes resource changes. Features plugin architecture for extensibility and RBAC-based access control for team collaboration.

Self-hosted collaborative wiki and documentation platform

Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki offering real-time editing, spaces with granular permissions, page history, and rich diagram support via Draw.io, Excalidraw, and Mermaid. Designed as a self-hosted Confluence and Notion alternative for teams needing data sovereignty, it provides nested pages, comments, and full-text search. Over 19,700 GitHub stars and 52 releases demonstrate strong community adoption.

Twelve-lesson curriculum for building AI coding agents from scratch

Learn Claude Code is a comprehensive educational framework with 12 structured lessons teaching AI coding agent construction from first principles. With over 46,000 GitHub stars and 7,000 forks, it provides complete runnable Python implementations progressing from a 50-line bash agent to a 550-line skills agent with modular extensibility and subagent orchestration.

Open-source AI coworker with persistent memory and tool use

Rowboat is an open-source AI coworker platform that provides persistent memory, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration in a chat-based interface. It enables teams to build AI assistants that remember context across sessions, access internal tools and databases, and coordinate specialized sub-agents for complex workflows. Over 9,300 GitHub stars.

Most popular VS Code Git extension with 30M+ installs

GitLens is the most-installed Git extension for VS Code with over 30 million installs. It supercharges Git inside the editor with inline blame annotations, rich commit history visualization, file and line history, AI-powered commit summaries, and interactive rebase tools. Pro features include GitKraken-powered team analytics and visual diff tools. Maintained by GitKraken.

Local-first AI notepad for meetings and voice notes

Hyprnote is a local-first AI notepad designed for capturing and processing meeting notes and voice recordings. It runs entirely on-device for privacy, transcribes audio using local models, and generates structured summaries, action items, and follow-ups. Built with Rust and Tauri for native desktop performance. Over 8,000 GitHub stars with strong privacy-focused community adoption.

Open-source dev environment management with AI integration

Daytona is an open-source development environment management platform that provides consistent, reproducible dev environments with AI integration. It standardizes environments across team members and deployment targets, eliminating 'works on my machine' problems. Supports devcontainer standard, integrates with VS Code, JetBrains, and terminal-based workflows. 14,000+ GitHub stars, Apache 2.0 license. Daytona Cloud offers managed hosting for teams that prefer not to self-host infrastructure.

Open-source, local-first Notion alternative with built-in AI

AppFlowy is an open-source workspace platform offering documents, wikis, databases, and project management as a privacy-first alternative to Notion. Built with Rust and Flutter for native performance, it runs fully offline with local data storage by default. AI features include writing assistance, summarization, and translation powered by configurable LLM providers. 54,000+ GitHub stars, backed by a growing contributor community with self-hosted and cloud deployment options.

Self-hosted code understanding for humans and agents

Sourcebot is a self-hosted code intelligence platform that helps developers and AI agents understand large codebases through intelligent search, navigation, and inline-cited answers. Deployed as a Docker container with MCP server support, it indexes thousands of repositories without source code leaving your infrastructure.

Auto-capture workflows into step-by-step documentation

Scribe automatically captures your on-screen workflows and converts them into step-by-step documentation with annotated screenshots. Simply perform a process with the browser extension or desktop app active, and Scribe generates a shareable guide with numbered steps, highlighted click targets, and descriptive text. Used for creating SOPs, training materials, and onboarding docs without manual documentation effort.

Internal developer portal for self-service engineering

Port is an internal developer portal platform that provides self-service interfaces for engineering teams. It offers a software catalog for tracking services, environments, and dependencies, along with self-service actions for common workflows like spinning up environments, deploying services, and managing resources. Features scorecards for engineering standards compliance and integrates with GitHub, GitLab, K8s, and cloud providers.

Spotify's open-source developer portal framework

Backstage is Spotify's open-source framework for building internal developer portals, now a CNCF incubating project with 27,000+ GitHub stars. It provides a unified software catalog, service documentation, CI/CD pipeline views, and a plugin architecture with 200+ community plugins. Teams use it to create a single pane of glass for service ownership, API documentation, infrastructure management, and developer self-service workflows.

Visual Git client with built-in collaboration

GitKraken is a cross-platform visual Git client providing an intuitive graph visualization of repository history, branches, and merges. Features include drag-and-drop branch management, interactive rebase, merge conflict editor, built-in code editor, GitFlow support, and integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. Includes GitLens for VS Code providing inline blame annotations, code authorship, and commit history. Free for public repos, paid for private repositories.

Visual collaboration platform for distributed teams to brainstorm, plan, and design together.

Miro is the leading online collaborative whiteboard platform used by 80M+ users worldwide. Enables distributed teams to brainstorm, diagram, plan sprints, run workshops, map user journeys, and design systems in real time. Integrates with Jira, Slack, Notion, Figma, and 200+ tools. Offers AI-powered features for mind mapping and content generation.

Open-source Jira alternative

Open-source AI coding agent designed for autonomous software development tasks. Runs locally or in CI/CD pipelines to complete issues, fix bugs, and implement features with minimal human intervention. Provides transparent reasoning traces and integrates with git workflows, giving developers confidence in automated code changes before merging.

One app to replace them all

AI-powered development platform that generates production-ready applications from natural language descriptions. Creates full-stack apps with frontend, backend, and database layers, handling deployment configuration automatically. Ideal for rapid prototyping and MVPs, letting founders and small teams ship functional products in hours instead of weeks.

Lightweight polyglot editor by JetBrains

All-in-one workspace for notes, docs, wikis, project management, and databases. Known for its block-based editor that combines text, tables, kanban boards, calendars, and embedded content in flexible page layouts. AI features assist with writing, summarization, and search. The most popular knowledge management tool for teams that need a single platform for documentation and lightweight project tracking.

Instant cloud dev environments with live collaboration

Cloud-based development environment providing instant sandboxes for web projects with live collaboration. Features branching like Git for dev environments, shareable previews, and deep integration with GitHub. Ideal for rapid prototyping, code reviews, and onboarding new team members who need a ready-to-go development environment without local setup or configuration delays.

Work management for teams

Professional design tool for creating user interfaces, prototypes, and design systems. Known for real-time collaboration, auto-layout, and an extensive plugin ecosystem. The industry standard for UI/UX design, Figma connects design and development workflows through Dev Mode, design tokens, and seamless handoff features that keep teams aligned from concept to code.

Async video messaging for teams

AI-powered design tool that generates production-ready UI components from text prompts or screenshots. Creates responsive layouts with clean code output compatible with major frontend frameworks. Bridges the gap between design and development by turning visual concepts into functional code, saving designers and developers hours of manual translation work.

Built-in project planning for GitHub

GitHub's built-in project management tool that organizes issues, pull requests, and draft items into customizable boards, tables, and roadmap views directly within your repositories. Features custom fields, automated workflows for moving items based on PR/issue status, grouping, filtering, milestones, and iteration planning. Integrated with GitHub Issues and PRs for seamless developer workflows. Free for all GitHub users. A lightweight alternative to Jira for GitHub-centric teams.

Project tracking for software teams

Atlassian's project management and issue tracking tool powering agile workflows, sprint planning, bug tracking, and deep integration with Bitbucket and Confluence. Supports Scrum and Kanban boards with customizable workflows, automation rules, and advanced reporting. The enterprise standard for engineering teams managing complex software delivery across distributed organizations.

Where work happens

Enterprise messaging platform for team communication with channels, direct messages, threads, and huddles (audio/video calls). Features rich app integrations via Slack API and Bolt framework, Workflow Builder for no-code automations, Canvas for collaborative docs, Slack Connect for cross-company channels, and file sharing. AI features summarize threads and channels. Integrates with 2,600+ apps. Owned by Salesforce. The de facto real-time communication tool for tech companies and developer teams.