Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Crust
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Crust launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Planet Crust▲79Connect to any data source, build whatever you want
2021 · planetcrust.com · its alternatives →
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We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open source business application platform for fast development - openkoda/openkoda
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open SaaS▲505Open-source & 100% free React & Node.js SaaS starter
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · domino-clj.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi, Piotr here I was collecting nice open-source companies for quite some time now. Mostly to take some inspiration and learn from their code. Last week, I though it would be fun to learn this Astro thing everyone's talking about. So I thought building a directory website out of this collection was pretty good idea. After 2 days of building, OpenAlternative was born. It's a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications. Enjoy and thank you for your support!
2024 · openalternative.co · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm the developer of one of the most popular Android clients for HN, Harmonic for Hacker News. Over the years I have recieved many requests to open source the app which I am finally doing - sorry about taking so long :) Having been very busy working on my PhD during the last two years - Harmonic has not recieved the attention it deserves. I therefore hope that open sourcing it can give it a new lease on life. I also hope that by posting here many of the nice people who have reached out to me will notice that the app is finally open source. I'm also happy to answer questions about the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free, open-source cloud productivity suite. Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Drive - faster and leaner than Google Apps. Self-host or use our cloud.
May 2026 · tinycld.org · its alternatives →
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The 1-click data onboarding platform for SaaS
2021 · flatfile.com · its alternatives →
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Marble▲280Manage your CMS content from Claude, Cursor, and Codex
Dec 2025 · marblecms.com · its alternatives →
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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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Donut Browser▲154Hi HN, I'm excited to share my open source project, a browser orchestrator. It's purpose is to make it easy to manage many browser profiles on one system. Currently it only works on MacOS, but since I've built it using Tauri (which is a Rust backend and TypeScript frontend), I expect to add Linux and Windows support in the future. I've built it primarily for myself as I use a lot of browsers and having an easy way to manage all of my profiles would make (have made, actually) my dock less cluttered haha. Also, part of why I built it is because as someone who doesn't really care about…
Apr 2026 · donutbrowser.com · its alternatives →
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A free React/NodeJS SaaS template for quick idea execution
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · openux.app · its alternatives →
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Open source business application platform for fast development - openkoda/openkoda
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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