Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Bodge.app – μFaaS for hacked-together personal tools and small projects
This is a little side project I've been working on for the last few months. It's a service hosting Lua scripts behind static HTTP endpoints in a fully sandboxed environment. It's something I've built to scratch my own itch and now I'm launching a free public beta to see if it's something that anyone else also finds useful. My first professional job was for a company building an industrial IoT platform who's most unique feature was their Lua-based scripting platform. I ended up loving Lua so much that at my next job, at SmartThings, I ended up being the main instigator who made the Lua-based…
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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UniDeck▲359Hi everyone! For the past few months we have improved upon our product called UniDeck, an app that allows you to connect different services and monitor their data. From every day services like Google and Github to your in-house api and tools, everything can be connected to a single dashboard and shared with your team for easy access, monitoring and collaboration. We have worked hard in the past 6 months since our previous launch to add a lot of features work on user feedback. UniDeck now has first class support for more than 15 services and has advanced widgets including tables and charts…
2025 · unideck.app · its alternatives →
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an agentic cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, documents, and curated urls. - microfeed/microfeed
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Write programs on desktop and mobile
2023 · akkartik.itch.io · its alternatives →
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A minimal text-editor with lua scripting. Contribute to skx/kilua development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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laboratório de integração Lua com libuv para execução de scripts assíncronos e experimentação de POCs - joaoneto/lua-libuv
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! The day has finally come to stop adding features and start sharing what I've been building the last 5-6 months. It's a bit of CrewAI, OpenDevon, LangFuse/Cloud all in one, providing devs who prefer TypeScript an integrated framework thats provides a lot out of the box to start experimenting and building agents with. It started after peeking at the LangChain docs a few times and never liking the example code. I began experimenting with automating a simple Jira request from the engineering team to add an index to one of our Google Spanner databases (for context I'm the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lua Text Adventure Engine. Contribute to shawndumas/adventure.lua development by creating an account on GitHub.
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We built Lumoar to help small SaaS teams get SOC 2-ready without paying thousands for Big 4 consultants or dealing with bloated compliance platforms. As a startup ourselves, we faced the usual issues: long security questionnaires, confusing audit requirements, and expensive tools that felt overkill. Lumoar is a simpler alternative: - Generate compliant SOC 2 policies automatically - Track your controls and progress in a clean dashboard - Upload evidence and get plain-language recommendations - Designed for engineers and founders, not compliance pros It's free to start — you can generate…
2025 · lumoar.com · its alternatives →
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Lua in Python. Contribute to scoder/lupa development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to announce the first release of my library, evolved.lua! evolved.lua is a fast and flexible ECS (Entity-Component-System) library for Lua. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, while providing all the features needed to create complex systems with blazing performance. Enjoy!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks — here’s a small experiment I hacked together over the weekend: https://cleoselene.com/ In short, it’s a way to build multiplayer games with no client-side game logic. Everything is rendered on the server, and the game itself is written as simple Lua scripts. I built this to explore a few gamedev ideas I’ve been thinking about while working on Abstra: - Writing multiplayer games as if they were single-player (no client/server complexity) - Streaming game primitives instead of pixels, which should be much lighter - Server-side rendering makes cheating basically…
Jan 2026 · cleoselene.com · its alternatives →
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Maybe you should use https://github.com/fiatjaf/flua instead of this - fiatjaf/glua
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · supershields.io · its alternatives →
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🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua. Contribute to xmake-io/xmake development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I love making small 2D pixel art games, especially using tools that have some constraints. Things like Pico-8 and the Playdate SDK are simple, fun, and allow for focusing on the game idea rather than the technical minutia. Years ago I prototyped an idea for this little game engine, Usagi, but used Rhai instead of Lua. The idea for this little game engine never went away, so I decided to finally dig in and build it. Today I released v1.0.0 of Usagi Engine after making a bunch of small games, getting feedback from developers, and stabilizing the API. It's simple, has a great developer…
May 2026 · usagiengine.com · its alternatives →
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This is an educational reference implementation showing how to build reasonably secure, standards-compliant authentication from first principles on Cloudflare Workers. Stack: Hono, Turso (libSQL), PBKDF2-SHA384 + normalization + common-password checks, JWT access + refresh tokens with revocation support, HTTP-only SameSite cookies, device tracking. It's deliberately minimal — no OAuth, no passkeys, no magic links, no rate limiting — because the goal is clarity and auditability. I wrote it mainly to deeply understand edge-runtime auth constraints and to have a clean Apache-2.0 example that…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Built a native Scratch 3.0 runtime in Lua that runs .sb3 projects without a browser. Why? Browser sandboxing prevents access to hardware features (haptics, sensors, fine-grained perf controls). Native runtime gives you direct hardware access and lets you deploy to consoles, handhelds, embedded devices. Also means much smaller binaries (LÖVE is ~7MB vs 50-100MB for Electron). How it works: - Scratch blocks compile to IR, then optimize, then generate Lua - LuaJIT executes the compiled code - Coroutine-based threading for concurrent scripts - Lazy loading + LRU cache for memory management - SVG…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I recently finished a round of tweaks on my barebones mud-server and thought HN might be interested. https://github.com/endgame/MudCore It sits somewhere between socketmud and a full mud like tbamud in that it handles all the socket work and telnet negotiation, but it makes no assumptions about anything else. The other interesting thing is that it can talk to other services using ZeroMQ. I'm interested in reactions, particularly in terms of coding style, documentation quality and so on. It's my main "presentation piece" so far, in that it's some of the first code I actually feel proud to…
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ship in days, not months. Cloudflare-native SaaS monorepo.
Apr 2026 · ottabase.com · its alternatives →
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Event driven, non-blocking app server for Lua. Contribute to raksoras/luaw development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · serverslide.com · its alternatives →
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