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24 alternatives to A5

Pentagonal geospatial indexing system DGGS. Contribute to felixpalmer/a5 development by creating an account on GitHub.

A5 is a life and fun application available on GitHub. The software is designed for users interested in lifestyle and entertainment tools, though specific functionality details are not provided in the available… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Anytype - Public Beta▲907

   Anytype is built on the open-source AnySync protocol: a local-first protocol based on CRDTs. Users of Anytype can create spaces - graph-based databases with modular UI. Each space has unique access rights. Today, Anytype's beta is in single-player mode. Multiplayer mode, which will support local-first collaboration between multiple users, will be launched in the first half of 2024. Anytype fulfils the seven ideals of local first software from here - https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ , our team felt these things are important to all of us: • No spinners: your work…

   2023 · anytype.io · its alternatives →

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   AnyParser API▲885

   The first LLM for document parsing with accuracy and speed

   2024 · cambioml.com · its alternatives →

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   Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index▲130

   Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing. Contribute to tidwall/tile38 development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Atlas.new▲524

   The AI agent for maps and spatial data

   Jan 2026 · atlas.new · its alternatives →

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   I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds▲312

   Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…

   Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Tile38 – A geolocation DB with spatial index and realtime geofencing▲82

   Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing. Contribute to tidwall/tile38 development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Maplist Beta▲282

   The reddit of maps

   2019 · maplist.co · its alternatives →

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   AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant▲368

   Hey HN! This is Tim from AnythingLLM (https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm). AnythingLLM is an open-source desktop assistant that brings together RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), agents, embeddings, vector databases, and more—all in one seamless package. We built AnythingLLM over the last year iterating and iterating from user feedback. Our primary mission is to enable people with a layperson understanding of AI to be able to use AI with little to no setup for either themselves, their jobs, or just to try out using AI as an assistant but with *privacy by…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   AnyParser▲271

   Accurate, private and configurable document retrieval LLM

   2024 · cambioml.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs▲305

    I built this tool because I wanted a way to just take a bunch of URLs or domains, and query their content in RAG applications. It takes away the pain of crawling, extracting content, chunking, vectorizing, and updating periodically. I'm curious to see if it can be useful to others. I meant to launch this six months ago but life got in the way...

    2024 · embedding.io · its alternatives →

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    Mapping 11M points with Tile38 – Mapbox/Geonames▲51

    2018 · geonames.tile38.com · its alternatives →

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    Flatmap – a new tool to make vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data fast▲158

    Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast - onthegomap/planetiler

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    kepler.gl▲116

    Uber's geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets

    2018 · kepler.gl · its alternatives →

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    Atlas – GIS and interactive maps in the browser▲161

    Atlas is the AI-native GIS. Build maps, dashboards, and spatial workflows from a conversation — GIS-grade analysis, accessible to your whole team. Trusted by energy developers, asset managers, and field operations teams.

    2024 · atlas.co · its alternatives →

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    HNSW index for vector embeddings in approx 500 LOC▲73

    Heirarchical Navigable Small Worlds. Contribute to dicroce/hnsw development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider▲125

    We built any-llm because we needed a lightweight router for LLM providers with minimal overhead. Switching between models is just a string change : update "openai/gpt-4" to "anthropic/claude-3" and you're done. It uses official provider SDKs when available, which helps since providers handle their own compatibility updates. No proxy or gateway service needed either, so getting started is pretty straightforward - just pip install and import. Currently supports 20+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and AWS Bedrock. Would love to hear what you think!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Embedding Atlas▲150

    Hey HN, we're happy to release Mycelium, a JavaScript library for creating graph visualizations of machine learning models or any other directed acyclic graphs. Mycelium powers the graph viewer of the Talaria [0] a research model visualization and optimization system, which was used to optimize the efficiency of Apple Foundation Models [1]. Everything works entirely on the client-side in the browser — we provide a rudimentary ONNX loader out of the box, which you can try by dragging model files into our website. It is also simple to define loaders for your own model formats. The library was…

    2025 · apple.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Atlasly▲86

    Your site did 5 days of research. We did it in 60 seconds.

    Mar 2026 · atlasly.app · its alternatives →

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    A fast HNSW implementation in Rust▲111

    HNSW implementation in Rust. Reference: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1603/1603.09320.pdf - swapneel/hnsw-rust

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OneGlanse▲77

    Free open-source GEO tracker for LLM visibility

    Apr 2026 · oneglanse.com · its alternatives →

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    Index – New Open Source browser agent▲98

    Hey HN, Robert from Laminar (lmnr.ai) here. We built Index - new SOTA Open Source browser agent. It reached 92% on WebVoyager with Claude 3.7 (extended thinking). o1 was used as a judge, also we manually double checked the judge. At the core is same old idea - run simple JS script in the browser to identify interactable elements -> draw bounding boxes around them on a screenshot of a browser window -> feed it to the LLM. What made Index so good: 1. We essentially created browser agent observability. We patched Playwright to record the entire browser session while the agent operates,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Objectiv – Open-source product analytics infrastructure▲88

    Hi! One of the creators here. Very proud to finally be able to show you what we've been working on for over a year now. Curious to hear your thoughts! Objectiv is open-source (APLv2) product analytics infrastructure. It's built around a generic but strict event taxonomy, open/common data- and infra tools (currently PG, snowplow, working on bigquery with more to come), and the analyses are done using our pandas-like, SQL speaking modeling library called Bach. As a result, we’re moving towards a vision wherein models can be shared openly, independent of product, platform[1] or data…

    2022 · objectiv.io · its alternatives →

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    CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents▲81

    I've been building a tool that changes how LLM coding agents explore codebases, and I wanted to share it along with some early observations. Typically claude code globs directories, greps for patterns, and reads files with minimal guidance. It works in kind of the same way you'd learn to navigate a city by walking every street. You'll eventually build a mental map, but claude never does - at least not any that persists across different contexts. The Recursive Language Models paper from Zhang, Kraska, and Khattab at MIT CSAIL introduced a cleaner framing. Instead of cramming everything into…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Procedural-gl – open-source 3D mapping library built with Three.js▲29

    Mobile-first 3D mapping engine with emphasis on user experience - felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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