Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. EstiMate – Accurate Crowdsourced Software Development Estimates launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Estimatr▲142

   Build accurate software estimates.

   2016 · estimatrapp.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Estimize▲95

   Crowdsourced earnings estimates

   2014 · estimize.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Crowdflower▲68

   Enterprise crowdsourcing for micro-tasks

   2014 · crowdflower.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   a16z - The Future of Software Development▲63

   The supply and demand of software eating the world

   2016 · feeds.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Estimize▲34

   Crowdsourced estimates from hedge fund, brokerage & analysts

   2014 · estimize.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Thousand▲103

   Git-backed docs for humans and agents

   Aug 2026 · usethousand.com · its alternatives →

7. 7BC
   Bounty – Crowdsourced Technical Recruiting▲7

   2014 · bounty.webflow.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Pheebs▲95

   Measure how engineers and teams actually work with AI

   22d ago · eversynced.com · its alternatives →

9. 9CG
   Crowd-generated information on tech products▲5

   2019 · scooget.com · its alternatives →

10. 10P
    Porch▲64

    local project summaries and cost tracking for AI coding

    13d ago · porch.pages.dev · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Crowdspring▲10

    Crowdsourcing Design

    2017 · crowdspring.refr.cc · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Experiment Engine▲42

    Crowdsource A/B testing to marketplace of conversion experts

    2014 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    devtimate▲25

    Hey HN! I am a FE dev who is working at a software agency and im making 2-3 estimates per week. Creating estimates is painfull manual proccess, where you have to read a lot of .docx like RFP, SRS etc. This was really tiring for me Also in agency where im working we make estimates in google spreadsheets which is another pain, trying to drag something, copy, duplicate can really mess up the whole layout So i just wanted tool that can just automate this a bit. I just started researching and I couldnt find anything good enough for my usecase. So I made a tool for creating estimates with AI. I…

    2024 · devtimate.com · its alternatives →

14. 14CF
    Crowdsourcing for awesome marketing content▲5

    Marketing Analytics - made as simple as conversations

    2021 · themangojelly.com · its alternatives →

15. 15SE
    Software Engineer search tool based on GitHub public contributions▲7

    2015 · findmyninja.io · its alternatives →

16. 16CA
    Codemonkey.ai – BI for Software Development Leaders▲7

    2017 · codemonkey.ai · its alternatives →

17. 17SP
    SproutUp – Product-focused, crowdsourcing content creation platform▲7

    2015 · sproutup.co · its alternatives →

18. 18SC
    Source Code Folding with Machine Learning▲7

    2015 · code-summarizer.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

19. 19UI
    User innovation with APIs▲6

    2012 · blog.elastic.io · its alternatives →

20. 20PI
    Pregit.io – prediction markets for GitHub repos▲5

    2019 · pregit.io · its alternatives →

21. 21CS
    Crowd-sourced medical diagnosis (feedback?)▲5

    2012 · headachestory.com · its alternatives →

22. 22CL
    Crowdsource List of Data Providers▲5

    2021 · democratizinginformation.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    I open-sourced our internal tool for ML comparability/reproducibility▲5

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    IsoGrid Foundation open sources the CrowdSwitch▲5

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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