Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

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. Better than etheroll? Open Source, no oracles Try with metamask now launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server▲122

   Hi HN, I have been messing around with WebRTC for a few years now but when it comes to the TURN server I never quite got to my gold standard of free, self-hosted and open source. I decided to give it a go using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's free tier, meaning that my total spend got down to domain name hosting. I know plenty of people have been burnt by Oracle in the past, but I have had servers running on the free tier for 5 years now without so much as a hiccup. Regardless, the concepts will be the same using any cloud based server. This is the first time I've written up an end-to-end…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   DSH Desktopfree▲176

   Official app for DeepSeek’s open-source agent harness

   24d ago · deepseek.com · its alternatives →

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   OpenShip▲154

   Open source PaaS on your server or in the cloud. No lock in.

   Aug 2026 · openship.io · its alternatives →

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   Fog Creek - The Problems with Open Source ▲70

   And how to fix them with Justin Searls

   2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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   Startup Tapes #008 — Mårten Mickos of MySQL / HackerOne▲66

   Successful open-source companies don't open-source software

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   We built a <60ms, open-source alternative to E2B using RustVMM and KVM▲7

   Over the past few months, as we scaled our internal AI Agents, we hit a dead end: Running LLM-generated arbitrary code in Docker is basically running naked on security due to container escape risks. But using full traditional VMs takes minutes to boot and eats too much memory to support high-density concurrency. We loved the developer experience of SaaS sandboxes on the market, but they are closed-source, expensive, and have too high a barrier to entry for self-hosting. So, our team decided to build our own. After months of grinding, using RustVMM and KVM, we built a blazing-fast,…

   Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   wsgrok▲7

   I built it for myself because ngrok didn't let me add one more domain unless I paid $12 more. I probably should've looked for alternatives before building my own, but my grudge got in the way . Once I started, I wanted to make it better than the other options. Silly, I know. No one probably cares. I plan to open source it sometime next year because I’ve got other projects to finish first. It's free until I deplete my cloud credits, then it will switch to a tier-based model with a free option.

   Jan 2026 · wsgrok.com · its alternatives →

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   I made a browser TUI with its own layout engine▲6

   Try it at: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.com No sign up, totally free - no download. Let me know what you think. Prior art exists (brow.sh) but I wasn't satisfied with their graphical take. I wanted the raw, old skool terminal days of the early internet - BBS, and old green phosphor library comptuers - but running the modern web, with all the bells and jingle jangle whistles (JavaScript, etc). No funding, no VC, just 100% raw terminal fun. Not sure how long the demo will last, but try it out.

   Jul 2026 · its alternatives →

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   I made an open-source Replit▲9

   I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Winds▲9

    An open source RSS reader

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I made StarDesk, P2P low latency remote desktop built for game and work▲6

    Hi HN, I’m one of the devs behind StarDesk, a P2P-first remote desktop we’ve been building for ~1 year. We started this partly out of frustration: some popular RDP tools haven’t seen meaningful updates in a long time, and long-standing issues are often left unaddressed. As devs, we really dislike software that stagnates once it “works well enough”. StarDesk is our attempt to do it differently. What we focus on: -P2P by default (relay as fallback) -Low RTT + low jitter > chasing max bitrate -Encoder &#x2F; input path tuned for real-time interaction -Modern E2EE (TLS&#x2F;DTLS) UX-wise, setup…

    Jan 2026 · stardesk.net · its alternatives →

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    Pritunl▲13

    Open Source OpenVPN AS Alternative

    2015 · pritunl.com · its alternatives →

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    Orion Hub▲11

    Open source cloud IDE that you can self host.!

    2015 · orionhub.org · its alternatives →

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    Free DynDNS alternative for cypherpunks▲7

    2013 · onetimedns.net · its alternatives →

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    SQLiteDAV – A WebDAV Server for SQLite Databases▲7

    Hi, this has been a labor of love over the last few days =) Can't wait to hear you feedback and of course AMA!

    2023 · blog.airsequel.com · its alternatives →

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    I built an open-source financial research terminal (SEC data and SQL)▲5

    I posted this a few weeks ago and the server died under the traffic. Fixed that by adding an in-mem caching layer with Redis&#x2F;valkey and added CloudFront caching for static content. Also upgraded the server. Also fixed the Firefox bugs, trying again. It's a research tool for US stocks. Financials for ~10k companies pulled from SEC filings. You can chart any metric across companies, filter news by ticker, ask questions in plain English and get a chart back. There's also SQL console against the whole database, which is the part I like to use together with the AI chat (generates an SQL…

    Jun 2026 · terminal.tesseractanalytics.ai · its alternatives →

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    better-paas▲4

    Deploy like Vercel but full-stack applications + databases.

    Jun 2026 · better-paas.com · its alternatives →

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    VulcanSQL – Serve high-concurrency, low-latency API from OLAP▲8

    Hi HN, I wanted to share an exciting new open-source project: "VulcanSQL"! If you're interested in seamlessly transitioning your operational and analytical use cases from data warehouses and databases to the edge API server, this open-source data API framework might be just what you're looking for. VulcanSQL (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vulcansql.com&#x2F;) is suitable for following use cases: * Customer-facing analytics - expose analytics in your SaaS product for customers to understand how the product is performing for them via customer dashboards, insights, and reports. * Data Sharing - sharing…

    2023 · vulcansql.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source API-only Builders Forum (beta)▲5

    2022 · youonlygetanapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Katipo is a minimal alternative internet with a Vulkan based browser▲5

    I’m nervous, announcing this, as it isn’t ready to ship out to the general public yet, and I haven’t had any feedback at all from anyone, I’m out on my own here. I think this concept itself is kind of dismissed outright a lot too, and I understand why, I wouldn’t believe me either actually. But, I do believe this is very much worth your time to check out, I am not aware of anything else very much like it. I won’t repeat what is already written on the github README here, but some info: I am a successful semi-retired solo game developer, I have been making my own bespoke game engines since…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Run any Llama model finetune and more, instantly▲7

    Hi there, looking for feedback on my new project "Featherless.AI" The idea is to allow users to run all the models on hugging face instantly. Via the OpenAI API compatible endpoint. Why? Because its a real chore to download models and spin up GPUs, especially if you want to test multiple models. Not to mention GPUs cost multiple dollars an hour to rent. And if we want more people to use open source AI, we got to make it easier for them to try and play with all of them. So what if instead of spinning up dedicated GPUs per model (which is what every provider is doing) We can startup a LLM…

    2024 · featherless.ai · its alternatives →

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    My OSINT dashboard with 60+ feeds now has a pseudonymous P2P comms▲5

    Sup HN, So a couple of months ago I posted my OSINT app ShadowBroker here and got WAY more attention than I expected. Some of the feedback was brutal, but honestly, a lot of it was right, and it made the project a lot better. And sure, I had a blast tracking billionaire jets and yachts or discovering GPS jamming in Ukraine was a thrill, and so was watching CCTV feeds from London, along with ships, satellites, conflict zones, etc., but eventually it dawned on me…where does my OSINT dashboard actually go from there? What good is all of the telemetry if people cannot communicate with each other…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    EtherSub – Subscriptions for the Ethereum Network▲5

    2016 · ethersub.com · its alternatives →

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    Plock: Use a local LLM from anywhere in your OS▲6

    After seeing a cool demo of a hack on Twitter, I built a cross platform version of it that works well and uses streaming. From anywhere on Mac and Linux, trigger Ollama and optionally feed it your clipboard. I built it yesterday and it's already very useful to me. I'm pretty excited about it and wanted to share!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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