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24 alternatives to AstraGuard

License keys & HWID protection for developers — $4.99/mo

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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    Permit.io▲677

    The new Permit.io CLI brings developer-first workflows to access control. Define, test, deploy, and enforce fine-grained authorization using AI, CI/CD, GitOps, and OpenAPI — all from your terminal

    2023 · permit.io · its alternatives →

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    NFT Guard▲236

    Protect yourself from fake NFTs and crypto scams

    2022 · blog.mozilla.org · its alternatives →

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    Agent 37▲401

    Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?

    Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →

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    Keygen is a powerful software licensing API for desktop apps, on-premise software and other software products written in Go, Rust, JS, C/C++, C#, Swift, Java, Kotlin and more.

    2017 · keygen.sh · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone I'm new here and i wanted to introduce my project i've been working on. Astra is a simple but powerful node.js to exe compiler. It uses esbuild and Node SEA. It uses postject to inject your code to nodejs binary. It focuses more on compiling cli and Servers like pkg or nexe (express) than fullstack applications like electron or tauri. It has rich ESM and typescript support. It has good DX and cli UX. I made it bc i didn't like using pkg or nexe, they cause a lot of problems with esm. LIMITATIONS: Now it has problems compiling projects with depencides containing binaries (e.g.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A bittorrent client in Rust. Contribute to ikatson/rqbit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Focus on your software - let us handle your keys, releases

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Peer-to-peer tool rental

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Founder License: $99 USD one-time for the first 20 completed purchases. Then the Standard License is $199/year per organization. Self-host Secryn for secrets, keys, and certificates.

    Feb 2026 · secryn.io · its alternatives →

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    One key to access every coding model in 3 flat prices

    May 2026 · devpass.llmgateway.io · its alternatives →

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    Accessible AI security for your web app

    Apr 2026 · zauth.inc · its alternatives →

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    Affordable security scans for startup founders

    Feb 2026 · hackerhero.cm64.site · its alternatives →

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    The ASO tool indie developers actually use.

    Apr 2026 · duckaso.com · its alternatives →

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    All-in protection against protocol hacks from $5 a month

    2024 · opencover.com · its alternatives →

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    Your website could be the target of a $50,000 accessibility lawsuit. AccessGuard scans your site and shows you exactly what to fix before lawyers come knocking.

    Mar 2026 · getaccessguard.com · its alternatives →

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    I built this after seeing multiple teams accidentally ship API keys in their frontend code. The problem: Modern web development moves fast. You're vibe-coding, shipping features, and suddenly your AWS keys are sitting in a tag visible to anyone who opens DevTools. I've personally witnessed this happen to at least 3-4 production apps in the past year alone. KeyLeak Detector runs through your site (headless browser + network interception) and checks for 50+ types of leaked secrets: AWS/Google keys, Stripe tokens, database connection strings, LLM API keys (OpenAI, Claude, etc.), JWT…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Anti Phishing tool for all your Crypto Transactions

    2021 · metaguard.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We are excited to show you modguard - a Python tool we built to enforce a modular, decoupled package architecture. We built modguard to solve a recurring problem that we've experienced on software teams - code sprawl. Over time, cross-module imports would tightly couple together what used to be independent domains, and eventually create "balls of mud". This made it harder to test, and harder to make changes. Mis-use of modules which were intended to be private would then degrade performance and even cause security incidents. This would happen for a variety of reasons: - Junior…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Save 89% of wasted tokens on your AI coding agent

    Mar 2026 · rtk-ai.app · its alternatives →

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    Pirate-proof your content

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Ad Astra is a dynamically typed scripting language designed for embedded use in Rust programs. It belongs to the same category as languages like Rhai and Rune, where developers expose APIs implemented in Rust to a dynamic, domain-specific scripting environment, enabling a rapid edit-compile-run cycle. Informally, you might think of Ad Astra as a "Lua" for Rust. Such systems have many applications, including the development of plugin platforms based on scripts for video game engines. Ad Astra primarily focuses on ergonomics, both for the scripting platform developer and the script user: 1.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm trying to disrupt the insane pricing of uptime monitoring. I hope you'll help me out. I'm trying to create the absolute cheapest dev monitoring tool on the market, while still being competitive with all the others. This means $3/month plan, while still having monitoring for: Website, REST API, UDP/TCP, ICMP, Heartbeat/CRON, WS/WSS, DNS, Domain Intel/expiry and SSL. Everything with unlimited alerts through webhooks. I'm also taking an unlimited approach to the amount of checks you can have. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

    2025 · exit1.dev · its alternatives →

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    Authon▲2

    Software licensing, HWID lock & auth API for developers

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, A few months ago I realized licensing my app wasn't as straightforward as I expected. There was too much setup just to create a license, and the customer experience was not great. All I wanted was for licenses to be generated automatically when I got paid, and for customers to manage their own licenses. So I built Keyforge, a simple software licensing platform for developers. It integrates with Stripe so that licenses are created automatically when someone purchases or subscribes to your product. There's also a self-serve customer portal where users can manage their licenses,…

    2025 · keyforge.dev · its alternatives →

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