Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

This project preserves unmaintained open source software by mirroring abandoned SourceForge projects to GitHub. It addresses concerns that valuable but orphaned projects could be lost if SourceForge declines or removes… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   GitHub Sponsors▲522

   Get paid to build what you love on GitHub

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Gitea Mirror▲80

   Automated github to gitea repository mirroring & backup

   2025 · its alternatives →

3. 3FM
   Find maintained forks of your favorite GitHub repos▲87

   2017 · forked.yannick.io · its alternatives →

4. 4OS
   Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for▲245

   hey makers, I've spent the whole night to compile this list out of > winners of Product Hunt > best dev tools on DevHunt > recently active on GitHub > most internet backlinks > most mentions as "alternative to .." Let me know if I should add anything there.

   2023 · osssoftware.org · its alternatives →

5. 5FA
   Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo▲120

   Several months ago, I built a "stealth" feature that I could use. It hasn't been advertised, and I've been the only user. As I find it useful for myself, I believe others (software developers) may like it too. So, this is the first public post about it, and if it gets any positive feedback, I may put some time into promoting it more. In essence, given that you've opened a GitHub repo (there are ~225k of the more popular ones indexed as of now), you can replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL, and you will find the top alternatives and related projects. For example, here are three…

   2022 · its alternatives →

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   GitHired▲360

   Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > Resumes Instead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stack their most complex projects how active they are what kinds of contributions they make which skills match your job description and yes, we detect fake “green square farming.” Why we built this Because engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts…

   Dec 2025 · githired.tech · its alternatives →

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   Repobear▲231

   The easiest way to share & monetize private Github repos

   2024 · its alternatives →

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   Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust▲334

   What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI). What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of…

   Jun 2026 · gitdot.io · its alternatives →

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   Refined GitHub▲324

   Browser extension that makes GitHub cleaner & more powerful

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10SF
    StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies▲226

    We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding: - Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects. - Each project has to market is self to get significant funding. - Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many. - Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms? So we…

    2022 · stackaid.us · its alternatives →

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    Sponsorware for Github▲125

    Sell access to Github repositories with Github Sponsors.

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools▲181

    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests▲62

    An extension of Refined GitHub browser plugin for AI contribution tracking capabilities in GitHub pull requests.

    Feb 2026 · blog.rbby.dev · its alternatives →

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    GitGlance▲101

    Github lead generation for hiring & sales teams

    2025 · gitglance.co · its alternatives →

15. 15OS
    Open-source alternatives to tools you pay for▲24

    I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of: - Recently active projects on GitHub - Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics) - Projects which are "Alternative to X software" My bookmarks are finally empty:D If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

    2025 · alternativeoss.com · its alternatives →

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    RepoSweeper▲57

    I built this in 2018 as a school project to bulk delete GitHub repos. It got 25k views on Medium and ~10k users organically, then I basically ignored it for years. Recently I dug into GitHub's community discussion board and some low hanging fruit for feature additions — archive, visibility changes, collaborator cleanup. GitHub's answer was always "use the API." So I built the UI. RepoSweeper now does: - Bulk archive / unarchive - Bulk visibility (public ↔ private) - Bulk collaborator add/remove - Staleness scoring so you know what to act on first - Handles 100+ repos with…

    2024 · reposweeper.com · its alternatives →

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    Dependabot – Automated Dependency Update PRs for Ruby, JS, Python and PHP▲51

    GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

    2017 · dependabot.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Revert back to good old GitHub Homepage▲34

    Revert back to good old GitHub Homepage. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm working on an open-source self-hostable GitHub Gist▲62

    A self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist

    2022 · drift.maxleiter.com · its alternatives →

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    A tool to safely migrate GitHub Actions workflows to Ubuntu-slim runner▲69

    Hi HN! I’ve been running GitHub Actions workflows for a while, and when GitHub announced the new ubuntu-slim runners as a cheaper alternative to ubuntu-latest, I wanted to migrate—but figuring out which workflows are safe to switch turned out to be surprisingly tedious. You need to check for Docker usage, services, containers, step failures due to missing packages, and whether jobs rely on tools not available in the slim image. So I built gh-slimify, a GitHub CLI extension that automates all of this. It scans your repository, detects which jobs can be migrated, flags incompatible patterns,…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A cleaner alternative to the “Fork Me on GitHub” ribbon▲45

    A fresher "Fork me on GitHub" callout. Contribute to tholman/github-corners development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a platform for projects to find maintainers▲49

    A few days ago, someone I follow asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking. There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained. In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges. Any feedback is very welcome!

    2022 · seeking-maintainers.net · its alternatives →

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    Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitHub-backup▲25

    Backup GitHub repositories locally. Contribute to ericlathrop/github-backup development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown▲48

    Hi HN, We have open-sourced Voiden. Most API tools are built like platforms. They are heavy because they optimize for accounts, sync, and abstraction - not for simple, local API work. Voiden treats API tooling as files. It’s an offline-first, Git-native API tool built on Markdown, where specs, tests, and docs live together as executable Markdown in your repo. Git is the source of truth. No cloud. No syncing. No accounts. No telemetry.Just Markdown, Git, hotkeys, and your damn specs. Voiden is extensible via plugins (including gRPC and WSS). Repo:…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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