Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Colony
An operating system for open organisations
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Colony launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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We built an ant colony simulation as an internal hiring challenge at Moment and decided to open it up publicly. You write a program in a custom assembly-like (we call it ant-ssembly) instruction set that controls 200 ants. Each ant can sense nearby cells (food, pheromones, home, other ants) but has no global view. The only coordination mechanism is pheromone trails, which ants can emit and sense them, but that's it. Your program runs identically on every ant. The goal is to collect the highest percentage of food across a set of maps. Different map layouts (clustered food, scattered,…
Mar 2026 · dev.moment.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm the author of Ant, a JavaScript ecosystem built around a runtime with its own JavaScript engine. Ant also includes a package manager, the ants.land package registry, a platform for deploying and hosting applications, and Ant Desktop for building native desktop apps with web technologies, similar to Electron. The goal is for these pieces to work as one coherent platform while remaining compatible with the wider JavaScript ecosystem. It's still early, and I'd appreciate any feedback on the overall direction or what you'd like to see from an e2e alternative to the existing…
Jul 2026 · antjs.org · its alternatives →
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Open source collaboration platform for all digital talents
2019 · utopian.io · its alternatives →
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A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc. The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly. This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing…
2022 · openship.org · its alternatives →
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Access files on the decentralized, unblockable torrent swarm and visit links using Handshake domains. Decentralized internet is here. - publiusfederalist/federalist
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spaceship▲344The future of domain, website and digital product management
2023 · spaceship.com · its alternatives →
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An application innovation platform delivering a comprehensive experience with tools to empower organizations to modernize and build new applications, accelerate AI adoption, and fuel growth.
2013 · coreos.com · its alternatives →
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Horizon 1.0▲312Realtime, open-source backend for JavaScript apps
2016 · sequence.xyz · its alternatives →
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Ethereum▲168"what JS did for the web, this will do for the block chain"
2014 · ethereum.org · its alternatives →
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2017 · aragon.one · its alternatives →
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Origin Protocol▲132Sharing economy built on blockchain
2018 · originprotocol.com · its alternatives →
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Eve is an AI agent harness that runs in an isolated Linux sandbox (2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 10GB disk) with a real filesystem, headless Chromium, code execution, and connectors to 1000+ services. You give it a task and it works in the background until it's done. I built this because I wanted OpenClaw without the self-hosting, pointed at actual day-to-day work. I’m thinking less personal assistant and more helpful colleague. Here’s a short demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/00d11bdbe804478e8817710f5f53ac61 The main interface is a web app where you can watch work happen in…
Apr 2026 · eve.new · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we build an open-source operating system extension for orchestrating robot swarms fully decentralized. This first beta version allows you to create fully decentralized robot swarms. The system will set up a wireless mesh network and run a p2p networking stack on top of it, such that nodes can interact with each other through various abstractions using our SDKs (Rust, Python, TypeScript) or a CLI. We hope this is a step toward better inter-robot communication (and a fun project if you have a few Raspberry Pis lying around). Our mesh network is created by B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv and we’ve…
2025 · docs.p2p.industries · its alternatives →
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Mosaic’s mission is to be the leading platform for reliable research, market information, and discussions on cryptoassets and related areas.
2013 · mosaic.io · its alternatives →
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Power hundreds of decentralized, peer-to-peer marketplaces
2020 · shoporigin.com · its alternatives →
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appfleet▲87Edge compute for containerized services & deploy global apps
2021 · appfleet.com · its alternatives →
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Maritime▲98Hi HN, my name is Maria, and I’m a co-founder of Maritime. We started Maritime at MIT to build infrastructure for companies that need to run thousands of isolated AI agents for their customers. Imagine you set up an agent like OpenClaw, or a personal assistant agent with a custom framework, and want to give a separate version of it to every customer/friend. Each customer needs their own agent running in an isolated microVM, with persistent state, secrets, triggers, and sleep/wake behavior. Building such scalable and secure infra will take you months and will cost hundreds of…
Mar 2026 · maritime.sh · its alternatives →
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2022 · pesto.app · its alternatives →
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Your Company Agentic Operating System. Contribute to desplega-ai/agent-swarm development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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