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24 alternatives to Airplane Views – code-first platform for building internal UIs

Hi HN, I'm Josh, one of the founders of Airplane! Airplane Views is our take on building internal tool UIs and is the newest component of our platform (alongside Tasks and Workflows). With Views, you can build admin dashboards, product usage charts, moderation inboxes, and more with just a few React components on a page. Views pair well with Tasks (our Lambda-like functions service)—you can write Tasks to fetch a list of customers or suspend a user, and hook them up to e.g. a Table or Button: import { Button, Stack, Table } from "airplane"; const AdminPanel = () => ( Suspend ); Internal…

Airplane Views is a code-first platform for building internal user interfaces using React components. It enables developers to create admin dashboards, usage charts, and moderation systems by writing code rather than… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Airplane Views – code-first platform for building internal UIs launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Developer-centric approach to quickly building internal UIs

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Render React components to Sketch for design systems

    2017 · react-sketchapp.airbnb.tech · its alternatives →

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    21st.dev▲1,211

    I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!

    2025 · 21st.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi, founders! We’ve actually launched quite some time ago, but (semi)pivoted a few times along the way. Jet Admin is an app builder for creating internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, external portals, and so on without coding. You can connect to any backend, assemble a UI through the visual builder, and set up data binding, transformations, conditionals, etc. through the point-and-click interface. If you need to, you can create custom HTTP, SQL queries, make data transformations with JS, and embed custom UI components. We believe that product, data, operations teams should be able to…

    2022 · jetadmin.io · its alternatives →

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    Page UI▲810

    High-converting landing page components to copy and paste

    2024 · pageui.shipixen.com · its alternatives →

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    I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!

    2022 · dev.aspect.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I was super frustrated at apps like tiktok and wechat preventing me from saving or downloading the animated gifs, so I made a little tool to turn a screen recording into a slack-sized emoji. Hope you get some value from this!

    Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Airplane▲488

    Quickly transform scripts, SQL, and more into internal tools

    2021 · its alternatives →

  9. 9IM

    Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!

    2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →

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    Divjoy helps you create the perfect codebase and UI for your next React project.

    2019 · divjoy.com · its alternatives →

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    A notebook for building interfaces with Tailwind & shadcn/UI

    2024 · layouts.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Sharing Random Airport Inspired by RandomStreetView (which I find weirdly addictive), and a passion for air travel. Probably not for everyone, but I hope some of you find it interesting! Needless to say, open to feedback! Enjoy clicking! Further reading: TECH: It's Build in React, NodeJS, with a Notion DB. The code is public on Github. It is spaghetti though ... Especially open to feedback here. DB: The db is publicly available (and editable), I can add the link in comments if anyone would like to have a look . KNOWN ISSUES: I would like to improve the design, pic loading performance…

    2023 · randomairport.onrender.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenUI▲543

    Describe UI and see it rendered live

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Jet Admin▲273

    Build business apps fast and with No-Code

    2022 · jetadmin.io · its alternatives →

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    Build AR/VR Apps in React Native + ship directly to devices

    May 2026 · reactvision.xyz · its alternatives →

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    700+ UI components with editor

    2024 · easyfrontend.com · its alternatives →

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    Huge set of everything you need to design and prototype

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Flows▲239

    If you’ve ever tried building onboarding or product adoption with Appcues, Chameleon, Userflow, WalkMe, or Usetiful, you’ve probably hit the same two problems: 1. Everything is rendered with JavaScript overlays 2. Customization is a nightmare A little backstory: When I was choosing an onboarding tool for my previous project, nothing matched what I needed. So I had to build my own. With help from IntroJS I built onboarding solution that I needed: Tooltips, Modals, custom CSS, waiting for interactions, and saving the state into the database. It worked… but it took way more time than it should…

    2024 · flows.sh · its alternatives →

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    Frigade▲388

    Hey HN! Christian here, cofounder and CTO of Frigade (https://www.frigade.com). Our tool helps product and engineering teams quickly build in-app experiences like getting started checklists, product tours, account upsells, and nps surveys. Basically all the little things that can help boost your product's activation and retention rates, but that you don't really want to spend the time building from scratch. We built React UI components such as , , and and combined them with a web app that you can use to control user targeting, content management, sequencing, and more. These…

    2023 · frigade.com · its alternatives →

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    Trendiest open-source React admin template

    2022 · horizon-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    React codebase & UI generator

    2021 · divjoy.com · its alternatives →

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    When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…

    Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    Divjoy▲311

    The React codebase & UI generator

    2019 · divjoy.com · its alternatives →

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    Quest AI▲299

    Convert napkin drawings into React components or Apps w/ AI

    2023 · its alternatives →

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