Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ether
A modular base for any design system
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Ether launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! We are the founders of atopile. We’re building a tool to describe electronics with code. Here is a quick demo: https://youtu.be/7-Q0XVpfW3Y Could you imagine the pain of building an entire software product using only assembly code? That’s about how we felt designing hardware. We don’t currently have good ways to describe what we need, reuse existing designs and compile that description down to a product. We started atopile to fix this. atopile is an open-source language and toolchain to describe circuits with code. The compiler is here:…
2024 · its alternatives →
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A single source of design truth, connected to the cloud.
2016 · miro.com · its alternatives →
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Adele▲338Open repository of design systems & pattern libraries 👨🎨 🎨
2018 · adele.uxpin.com · its alternatives →
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Build your own amazing illustrations.
2022 · iradesign.io · its alternatives →
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The book set teaching how to build with Ethereum
2018 · sitepoint.com · its alternatives →
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Ethereum▲168"what JS did for the web, this will do for the block chain"
2014 · ethereum.org · its alternatives →
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Educational sandbox for prototyping Web3. Learn Ethereum visually with drag-and-drop programming.
2020 · eth.build · its alternatives →
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EtherLite▲77Blockchain platform for building decentralized applications
2021 · etherlite.org · its alternatives →
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An open source tool for building Design Systems with Vue.js
2018 · vueds.com · its alternatives →
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The fastest UI kit & design system for your projects
2023 · useblank.design · its alternatives →
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DesignValley▲300Discover, vote and share your favorite design tools 🥇
2020 · designvalley.club · its alternatives →
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thePenTool▲148Design assets library for designers that value their time
2020 · thepentool.co · its alternatives →
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A free book that's simple in structure, human in explanation
2019 · marvelapp.com · its alternatives →
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Bake, A build system for building, testing and running C & C++ projects - SanderMertens/bake
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…
Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →
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Design Resources▲273A curated list of tools in one place to help designers
2020 · designresourc.es · its alternatives →
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2017 · aragon.one · its alternatives →
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Open Design SDK▲139Read and display data from designs, using code
2021 · opendesign.dev · its alternatives →
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2013 · thebinaryapp.com · its alternatives →
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