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24 alternatives to 20 Patterns to Watch for in Engineering
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. 20 Patterns to Watch for in Engineering launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Objectively analyzing your team's codebase and patterns
2016 · its alternatives →
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CodePen Patterns▲243A collection of design patterns & code for your project
2014 · codepen.io · its alternatives →
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Deliver more and improve team efficiency
2021 · analyticsverse.com · its alternatives →
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I built a search engine for engineering blogs because I was tired of manually checking individual company blogs to find real-world production examples. The problem: When learning a new technology, the best insights often come from how companies like Google, Meta, or Stripe actually implement it in production. But these gems are scattered across dozens of separate engineering blogs with no way to search across them. What I built: Engineering.fyi indexes engineering blogs from ~15 companies (Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Uber, etc.) and makes them searchable in one place. You can…
2025 · engineering.fyi · its alternatives →
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TimeFly Dev▲309TimeFly tracks your coding to stop procrastinating and finish your projects. Built because I kept getting excited about side features and forgetting my goals. See your real coding patterns and ship what matters. Full details on the site.
2025 · timefly.dev · its alternatives →
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GitHired▲360Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > Resumes Instead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stack their most complex projects how active they are what kinds of contributions they make which skills match your job description and yes, we detect fake “green square farming.” Why we built this Because engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts…
Dec 2025 · githired.tech · its alternatives →
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Weave▲237Hey HN, We’re building Weave: an ML-powered tool to measure engineering output, that actually understands engineering output! Why? Here’s the thing: almost every eng leader already measures output - either openly or behind closed doors. But they rely on metrics like lines of code (correlation with effort: ~0.3), number of PRs, or story points (slightly better at ~0.35). These metrics are, frankly, terrible proxies for productivity. We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact directly, with a far better 0.94 correlation. The result? A standardized engineering output…
2025 · app.workweave.ai · its alternatives →
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Free to use patterns by awesome designers
2014 · thepatternlibrary.com · its alternatives →
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DevDynamics▲175Engineering insights to improve productivity & well-being
2023 · devdynamics.ai · its alternatives →
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An ultra-simplified explanation to Design Patterns
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The first dysfunction of a software team
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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HackerDraw▲99Your engineering team’s favourite diagramming tool
2022 · hackerdraw.com · its alternatives →
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Keypup 2.0▲74Development streamlining & get pull requests under control
2021 · keypup.io · its alternatives →
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Git analytics▲131for software developers, teams, and open-source communities
2019 · its alternatives →
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