Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Asimov
Automatically exclude dev files from Time Machine backups
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. Asimov launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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🕔 Exclude development files from Time Machine backups - samuelmeuli/tmignore
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DevCleaner▲157Free the gigabytes your dev tools and AI apps hoard
Jun 2026 · devcleaner.app · its alternatives →
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Refuse▲84Block vulnerable package installs for you and your AI
Jun 2026 · refuse.dev · its alternatives →
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Bumplyfree tier, from $27.24/mo▲113Update your dependencies and undo anything
Aug 2026 · bumply.app · its alternatives →
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Replicas▲239Hey HN! I'm Connor, creator of Replicas. I'm a heavy Codex/Claude Code user, and I wanted to hand off tasks to agents like I would to an engineer - kick something off before work, let it scaffold while I'm at lunch, even come back to a ready PR. The problem: existing alternatives use workspace VMs that are black boxes. I have no access to any of them - they can't run tests, read logs, or use tools like the Playwright MCP (which I use to verify agents actually fixed what they claim to fix). Replicas gives agents real cloud workspaces where they can: - Run your test suite and read the…
Jun 2026 · replicas.dev · its alternatives →
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:floppy_disk: Painless automated backups to multiple storage providers with Docker and duplicacy. - christophetd/duplicacy-autobackup
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a lightweight project management workflow to keep AI-driven development organized. The problem was that context kept disappearing between tasks. With multiple Claude agents running in parallel, I’d lose track of specs, dependencies, and history. External PM tools didn’t help because syncing them with repos always created friction. The solution was to treat GitHub Issues as the database. The "system" is ~50 bash scripts and markdown configs that: - Brainstorm with you to create a markdown PRD, spins up an epic, and decomposes it into tasks and syncs them with GitHub issues - Track…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Save your data from being trashed
2022 · getmanfred.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote some shell scripts to automate "fixing" old Time Machine backups, particularly Time Machine backups from previous computers. I've personally experienced a lot of friction with this, and found out that some of the metadata stored in the Backups.backupdb and individual snapshot directories prevent successful use with Time Machine on other computers in some cases. Time Machine itself does not always handle this gracefully. These utilities should help users wrangle older backups to make them work with Time Machine on their current Mac.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Define rules to find regenerable files & save disk space
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Kept▲104Your AI chats, saved as Markdown locally with no cloud
May 2026 · kept.work · its alternatives →
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1DevTool▲94Multi-project IDE with persistent terminals and 9 dev tools
Mar 2026 · 1devtool.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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James Studdart of CynicalDeveloper
2017 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · maintenanceless.com · its alternatives →
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This project addresses the inefficiencies of traditional Dockerfile-based container builds where each customization layer creates storage bloat through duplicate dependencies from repeated apt-get install commands, network inefficiency from redundant package downloads across different images, and slow iteration cycles requiring full rebuilds of all previous steps. Our solution enables building minimal base images from scratch using debootstrap that precisely include only required components in the initial build, while allowing creation of specialized variants (Java, Kafka, etc.) from these…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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VaultSage▲15Your AI-native Drive for organizing, using and sharing files
Nov 2025 · vaultsage.ai · its alternatives →
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TidyDisk▲5See what is eating your dev disk. Reclaim it in one click.
Jul 2026 · tidydisk.app · its alternatives →
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