One Dev Built the AI Stack Directory That Actually Has Opinions

66 tools, 13 categories, and the audacity to say when NOT to use something. · BARONFANTHE/seeaifirst The Graveyard of Awesome Lists We've all been there. You open an 'awesome-ai-tools' repo at 11pm because you need to pick a vector database before the morning standup. Three hundred links, zero opinions, zero context. You close the tab and ask ChatGPT anyway. This is the failure mode that seeaifirst is explicitly designed to solve — and the way it does it is surprisingly principled for a project sitting at 28 stars. What It Actually Does At its core, seeaifirst is a static HTML + JSON site listing 66 AI developer tools across 13 categories, organized into 5 conceptual layers: Foundation → Coordination → Capability → Application → Trends. The live site lives at seeaifirst.com, and the entire thing runs with zero backend — static files on a CDN, loaded via fetch() from data.json. But the differentiator isn't the tech. It's the editorial discipline baked into the data schema. Every tool en