Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Connect by Buf
Simple, reliable, interoperable. A better gRPC.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Connect by Buf launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Anything API▲656Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…
Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →
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Fern▲260We built the world’s first generated, idiomatic gRPC and REST SDK. If you have public gRPC and REST endpoints, Fern is the SDK provider for you.
2025 · buildwithfern.com · its alternatives →
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🔥 GUI client for gRPC/gRPC-Web. Contribute to getezy/ezy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we’re Stefan and Adina, and we’re building superglue (https://superglue.cloud). superglue allows you to connect to any API/data source and get the data you want in the format you need. It’s an open-source proxy server which sits between you and your target APIs. Thus, you can easily deploy it into your own infra. If you’re spending a lot of time writing code connecting to weird APIs, fumbling with custom fields in foreign language ERPs, mapping JSONs, extracting data from compressed CSVs sitting on FTP servers, and making sure your integrations don’t break when…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Embed sustainability into your product with a simple API
2022 · console.connect.earth · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone! I was poking around GoLang's HTTP/networking capabilities to see what things I could do. Turns out it is pretty easy to insert your own networking stack into HTTP clients and servers.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Anyfiddle▲145Build, run and share code in any language from your browser
2021 · anyfiddle.com · its alternatives →
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gRPC over WebRTC▲102gRPC over WebRTC. Contribute to jsmouret/grpc-over-webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Connector▲116Location, background, interest & AI based networking
2024 · connectorapp.co · its alternatives →
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2013 · jsbin.com · its alternatives →
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Low cost, low effort P2P WebRTC serverless signalling using Cloudflare Workers - gfodor/p2pcf
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Asynchronous C networking library with HTTP server, WebSockets, reverse proxy, HTTP/2 gRPC client, TLS and event loop. - Softmotions/iwnet
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Connect 1.0▲78A hyperlocal group messaging app for business owners
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, we’re Ghalib and Nathan from Polytomic. Today we’re launching our second product, Polytomic Connect: https://www.polytomic.com/connect (documentation here: https://apidocs.polytomic.com). Connect is an API you can use in your own products to either pull your customers’ data into your own systems, or push data from your own systems to your customers’, or both. We have first-class support for data warehouses too. And there's a self-hosted deployment option. You can set up automatic data syncs in any direction between data warehouses, databases (including CDC…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Contribute to minikomi/pipesock development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard
2014 · tyk.io · its alternatives →
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Today we're announcing frpc-go, an RPC framework that's designed from the ground up to be lightweight, extensible, and extremely performant. In an apples-to-apples comparison fRPC outperforms gRPC by more than 4x, doing more than 2 million RPCs/second on a single node. Check out our docs site at https://frpc.io!
2022 · loopholelabs.io · its alternatives →
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A cross-platform HTTP client desktop application for testing HTTP and REST APIs, WebSocket, GraphQL (including subscriptions) and gRPC endpoints. - sunny-chung/hello-http
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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