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zhuima/awesome-cloudflare

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TLDR

A curated directory of open-source tools and projects built on Cloudflare's free tier, Workers, Pages, D1, KV, R2, aimed at solo developers who want to ship apps without managing servers.

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    What it does
      Curated directory
      Cloudflare tools index
      Community contributions
    Categories
      Image hosting
      URL shorteners
      Starter templates
      Email and analytics
    Cloudflare Services
      Workers
      Pages
      D1 and KV
      R2 storage
    Audience
      Solo developers
      Beginners
      Indie hackers
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Browse the directory to find a free, self-hostable image hosting tool built on Cloudflare R2

USE CASE 2

Find a ready-made URL shortener or temporary email service to deploy on Cloudflare Workers

USE CASE 3

Discover starter templates and scaffolding projects to jump-start a Cloudflare-powered side project

Getting it running

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In plain English

This repository is a curated list, not a program. Its title is Awesome Cloudflare, and it collects open source tools, projects, guides, and blogs that are built on top of Cloudflare. The README is written mainly in Chinese, with links to English, Spanish, and German versions, and it is aimed especially at solo developers who are getting started and want a ready-made set of low-cost, easy-to-use building blocks. Cloudflare is the service the whole list revolves around. The README briefly explains it as a company that provides a content delivery network, protection against denial-of-service attacks, internet security, and DNS services, sitting between website visitors and the site's host as a kind of middleman. Many of the listed projects run on Cloudflare's free or low-cost building blocks, such as Workers, Pages, D1, KV, and R2, which let people run small applications without managing their own servers. The collection states its inclusion criteria up front: entries should help independent developers work more efficiently, lower their costs, and stay simple and convenient to use. It invites readers to submit pull requests and issues to add new entries or ask questions, so it is meant to grow over time through community contributions. Most of the README is a series of tables grouped by category. The categories include image hosting, temporary email services, blogs and content management systems, scaffolding or starter templates, URL shorteners, website analytics, tunnels, file sharing, speed testing, monitoring, and developer tools, followed by sections of articles and tutorials. Each table row names a project, gives a short description of what it does, sometimes links to a live demo, and marks whether the project is still maintained or no longer kept up. In plain terms, this repository is a directory you browse to find existing open source projects that solve a common need using Cloudflare, for example a free image host or a throwaway email address. It does not provide the tools itself, it points you to other people's repositories and notes which ones are active. The language field shows as unknown because the repository holds documentation rather than code.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I want to deploy a free image hosting service on Cloudflare R2 and Workers. Find the most actively maintained option in awesome-cloudflare and show me how to deploy it.
Prompt 2
Help me find a URL shortener from the awesome-cloudflare list that I can deploy on Cloudflare Workers and connect to my own domain.
Prompt 3
Which projects in awesome-cloudflare would let me set up a blog with no hosting cost using Cloudflare Pages?
Prompt 4
Show me how to contribute a new open-source Cloudflare project to the awesome-cloudflare list by submitting a pull request.
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