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24 alternatives to ADPList

Felix here – founder at ADPList. ADPList is a mentorship platform where developers and designers can book 1:1 video sessions with experienced mentors for free, across topics like systems design, interviews, architecture reviews, and engineering management. A few years ago, while working as an engineer and building products in a small team, it was surprisingly hard to get practical, unbiased advice from people who had “been there before”. Conference talks and blog posts were too generic, internal mentors were too busy, and paid coaching didn’t scale for early-career engineers or folks outside…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. ADPList launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Most affordable design learning & AI mentorship platform

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Agentplace▲1,015

    Garry Tan posted a video this week about what he calls 20x companies. The idea is that small teams beat incumbents many times their size by automating everything internally, not just one or two functions. This alpha is real, and I think it is underhyped tbh. But here's the honest part, building agents is hard, expensive and most of the scaffolding we make would be obsolete with a new labs release. at the same time models are not quite there and they are not keeping up with "coding is dead" and "knowledge workers are doomed". Pushing them beyond what they can actually do reliably just boils…

    2024 · agentplace.io · its alternatives →

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    SimplAIfree tier, from $5/mo▲589

    Hey HN, I've been building SimplAI for the past several months — it's a platform for building, testing, and deploying LLM-powered agents and multi-step workflows. The problem I kept running into: spinning up an AI agent pipeline means stitching together prompt management, tool calling, memory, evals, and deployment — often from scratch every time. SimplAI tries to be the layer that handles all of that so you can focus on what your agent actually does. What it does: - Visual + code-first workflow builder for chaining LLM calls, tools, and APIs - Built-in prompt versioning and A/B testing…

    2025 · simplai.ai · its alternatives →

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    Dyad▲571

    Hi HN! I left Google earlier this year and created Dyad, a local, open-source AI app builder made with Electron. The motivation: I tried one of the popular cloud-based AI app builders, but when I pulled down the app to run locally and debug in Cursor, it just didn’t work. So I created Dyad, an app builder that runs fully on your computer, making it easy to switch between Dyad and coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code. Source code: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/ Download (free, no sign-up): https://www.dyad.sh/ I've gotten questions about how it…

    2025 · dyad.sh · its alternatives →

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    Figr AI▲503

    Built Figr AI because I got tired of AI builder tools market themselves as design tools and end up skipping the hard part. Every tool I tried would jump straight to screens. But that's not how product design actually works. You don't just design screens. You think through the problem first. The flows, the edge cases, the user journey, where people will get stuck. Then the design comes finally. Figr does that thinking layer first. It parses your existing product via a chrome extension or takes in screen-records, then works through the problem with you before designing. Surfaces edge cases,…

    Feb 2026 · figr.design · its alternatives →

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    DevClad▲110

    Meet other developers 1:1 - team up on projects + hackathons

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Make gorgeous drag & drop visual roadmaps

    2017 · prodpad.com · its alternatives →

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    Codeplace▲257

    Learn how to code by building real web apps

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Easiest way to plan, visualize, & share your product roadmap

    2015 · app.productplan.com · its alternatives →

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    Mentor.AI▲500

    Unlock growth potential with AI mentors

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Ally▲291

    Master your craft with 1:1 sessions from expert mentors

    2022 · theproductfolks.com · its alternatives →

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    I built Epismo because I was tired of leaving meetings thinking: “Wait, who’s actually doing this?” Too often, teams (mine included) lost sight of the goal while tasks got scattered and momentum stalled. This is my first step as a founder, and I’d love your thoughts. I just launched on Product Hunt. Would love your thoughts & feedback! https://www.producthunt.com/products/epismo

    Mar 2026 · about.epismo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Matt, founder of Frontend Mentor (https://www.frontendmentor.io). We provide front-end and full-stack coding challenges with professional Figma designs, enabling developers to build real projects and grow their skills. The problem: AI coding tools are great, but they can work against you when you're learning. Ask Copilot or Cursor to help with a beginner project, and they'll happily write the whole thing for you. You ship the project, but you didn't really learn anything. What we did: We added AGENTS.md (and CLAUDE.md) files to every challenge's starter code. These files…

    2018 · frontendmentor.io · its alternatives →

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    Improve your coding skills by building real projects

    2020 · frontendmentor.io · its alternatives →

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    ProdPad▲262

    Build product roadmaps, manage ideas, and make users happy.

    2014 · prodpad.com · its alternatives →

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    TLDR: I made a community where you can find builders or product owners to collab on sideprojects together with <3 A year ago i completed my first sideproject, a digital course on how to "cold email a chief information security officer". I thought and think its a great course, but of course I fell into all the traps (didnt verify a need, i thought id make it and everyone would buy automatically), i tested google ads but hated nerding on that, so i decided to find a marketing person to partner up with! But i knew no one! That got me thinking how many people with relevant knowledge that isnt…

    2025 · relentlessly.no · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Alex, an indie hacker and digital nomad. Since 2013, I've started a couple of dozen startups (most of them died at the idea stage) and applied to VCs, incubators, and accelerators. They all required a business plan. As a tech guy, I struggle even with writing documentation for my code, so writing business plans was always a huge issue. I tried doing it myself, and I even hired freelancers (which was very expensive for me at that time). Everything changed when ChatGPT was released. I built an AI business plan generator so every tech person can now easily write a business plan and…

    2023 · bizplanner.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hire world-class freelance developers for your team

    2018 · arc.dev · its alternatives →

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    Simplist▲133

    Homepage for browsers with AI

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    MentorCruise connects aspiring mentees with industry experts for mentorship in Software Engineering, Product Management, AI, Design and Business.

    2020 · mentorcruise.com · its alternatives →

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    Projekt▲128

    I'm a product designer & front-end engineer who's been building with AI coding agents for the past year and working on teams launching AI products even longer. I always found the tools to be powerful, but the workflow around them lacking. I was constantly bouncing between terminals, browsers, file managers, and a rotating cast of IDEs. Nothing ever hit the right balance of simplicity and control. So, like any completely over-burdened dad and leader, I built my own. Projekt is an agent-agnostic workspace that consolidates everything into one place. Bring your own key, bring your own agent —…

    Mar 2026 · getprojekt.com · its alternatives →

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    The AI IDE for Contextual Builders

    2025 · oppla.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! My name is Christian, and I’m the co-founder of https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frigade.ai. We’ve built an AI agent that automatically learns how to use any web-based product, and in turn guides users directly in the UI, automatically generates documentation, and even takes actions on a user’s behalf. Think of it as Clippy from the old MS Office. But on steroids. And actually helpful. You can see the agent and tool-calling SDK in action here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UPe0t3A1Vpg How is this different from other AI customer support products? Most AI "copilots" are really just…

    2025 · frigade.ai · its alternatives →

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    UiHub▲118

    Appaca is my third pivot. A couple of years ago, I started working on an idea on no-code platform that generates code. The goal is to help devs and agencies ship products faster for their clients. I went through Antler startup accelerator and got initial funding. I was working on the right problem, but wrong solution. Instead of no-code, I should have jumped into LLM a lot earlier. I felt defeated when Lovable, Base44, and Bolt came out strong, showing the world what LLMs can do in software development. No one cared about my product anymore. I pivoted my startup second time after that, to an…

    2023 · appaca.ai · its alternatives →

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