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24 alternatives to cursor party

Hi HN, I challenged myself to build a multiplayer game in just 1 hour. My goal was to experience the distributed processing capabilities of Elixir and Phoenix LiveView firsthand by creating a simple web app. It allows everyone to see each other's cursors in real-time and fight a boss together. This is currently a beta version, and I plan to ship new features every week. It's deployed on Koyeb. I'd love to hear your feedback on the performance!

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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    Our first coding model and new interface for agents

    Oct 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →

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    Build with coding agents from anywhere

    Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Work with a powerful coding assistant anywhere

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    2017 · javier.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Seeing all the hype around Bolt.new, I decided to give it a try, and within just 30 minutes, I built a fully functional web app for screen sharing. How It Works: - One user opens a room and receives a unique code. - Participants join by simply entering the code to view the shared screen. After that initial build, I moved the project to Cursor to continue iterating and enhancing its features. Github: https://github.com/tonghohin/screen-sharing Demo: https://share-your-screen.vercel.app

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    theORQL▲170

    Cursor for frontend. Build and debug in Chrome and VS Code.

    Feb 2026 · theorql.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Source dashboard and analytics for Cursor IDE

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight smiley cursor with "winks" on click

    Dec 2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9IM

    I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…

    2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10PF

    I created an extension which adds a custom pet to your editor (Cursor/ VS Code/ Windsurf compatible). https://github.com/blairjordan/codachi As you type, your pet hatches, acquires XP and evolves. A playing card is generated when your pet evolves. All pixel art is original and hand/ mouse drawn.

    2025 · its alternatives →

  11. 11WM
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    Add Figma like cursor chat to your own products

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Viberia▲146

    Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…

    May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →

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    Khorus▲124

    Cursor for A2A, where Agents collaborate & build together

    Nov 2025 · khorus.io · its alternatives →

  15. 15WM
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    Tine▲79

    An AI desktop cursor that does the work for you

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Creator of CursorBird here. I've recently built and published a fun side project I think you might enjoy: It's a simple Cursor extension that lets you play a flappy bird clone while the agents are running. It uses Cursor's hook system to detect agent activity: the game automatically opens when an agent starts working and closes when all agents finish. Press Tab to flap. 100% open source. Repo: https://github.com/i-am-noamg/cursorbird Install: https://open-vsx.org/extension/cursorbird/cursor-bird or from Cursor's extensions search It started…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18CI

    Hi, I'm Daniel from Zep. I've integrated the Cursor IDE with Graphiti, our open-source temporal knowledge graph framework, to provide Cursor with persistent memory across sessions. The goal was simple: help Cursor remember your coding preferences, standards, and project specs, so you don't have to constantly remind it. Before this integration, Cursor (an AI-assisted IDE many of us already use daily) lacked a robust way to persist user context. To solve this, I used Graphiti’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which allows structured data exchange between the IDE and Graphiti's temporal…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    A multiplayer tron-like game in the browser

    2015 · curvytron.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20AC

    Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You can host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out…

    2022 · pixel.vkoskiv.com · its alternatives →

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    Cursors▲66

    cursor mouse game

    2014 · cursors.io · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been experimenting with embedding an Claude Code/Cursor-style coding agent directly into the browser. At a high level, the agent generates and maintains userscripts and CSS that are re-applied on page load. Rather than just editing DOM via JS in console the agent is treating the page, and the DOM as a file. The models are often trained in RL sandboxes with full access to the filesystem and bash, so they are really good at using it. So to make the agent behave well, I've simulated this environment. The whole state of a page and scripts is implemented as a virtual filesystem hacked…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Discuss, manage tasks and share in real time.!

    2016 · blankcursor.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm Guojun, creator of Cursor Autopilot. Most of my day using Cursor involves babysitting—I sit there reviewing the AI agent’s output, hitting "continue," and repeating. Honestly, it's tedious, especially since those 2-minute waits always tempt me into another round of doomscrolling. So I thought: wouldn’t it be great if I could step away, grab coffee, or just relax while still managing Cursor from my phone? I quickly hacked together Cursor Autopilot, a simple extension that's now available on the Cursor Extension marketplace. It sends your Cursor chat summaries directly to Telegram…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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