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24 alternatives to Fae

Open-source content management system based on Rails

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Fae launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Fae CMS▲6

   A Flexible, Open-Source, Ruby On Rails CMS Engine

   2017 · faecms.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Restyaboard▲197

   An open source alternative to Trello

   2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Kernel Cards▲95

   A simpler way to create a digital content strategy

   2016 · kernelcards.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Contentify▲70

   a real-time collaborative content manager on top of Github

   2014 · thyb.github.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Prelang▲82

   Automatic Rails Development

   2014 · prelang.com · its alternatives →

6. 6AB
   A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS▲58

   Hey HN! We're building an open-source CMS designed to help creators with every part of the content production pipeline. We're showing our tiny first step: A tool designed to take in a Twitter username and produce an "identity card" based on it. We expect to use an approach similar to [Constitutional AI] with an explicit focus on repeatability, testability, and verification of an "identity card." We think this approach could be used to create finetuning examples for training changes, or serve as inference time insight for LLMs, or most likely a combination of the two. The tooling we're…

   2025 · contentfoundry.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Developer Ipsum▲110

   Lorem for nerds

   2021 · developer-ipsum.netlify.app · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Payola▲83

   A Rails engine for Stripe

   2014 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Contentacle▲114

   A simple new approach to content planning

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    AniJS▲87

    UI Interaction Library for Web Designers in Plain English

    2014 · anijs.github.io · its alternatives →

11. 11AN
    A new open source e-commerce platform for Rails▲5

    2013 · blog.adamcooke.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    This Developing Story - 34: Rails Works Well Enough▲56

    talking about a blog post complaining about Rails

    2015 · developingstory.netlify.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Hawkee▲73

    A writing platform for web developers

    2014 · hawkee.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    The Informant▲70

    Real-time usability monitoring for Rails apps

    2014 · informantapp.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Fraym▲67

    A new open-source CMS

    2014 · fraymm.wordpress.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    ReadMe.io▲39

    A Developer Hub for your open source software

    2014 · readme.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Reams, a deeply superficial RSS iOS app, React Native, open source▲9

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    OpenPaaS▲13

    AN OPEN SOCIAL PLATFORM

    2015 · open-paas.org · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Deis 2.0▲6

    Open source PAAS based on Kubernetes

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    RailsClips▲2

    A weekly video series dedicated to web development with Ruby

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Nudge▲10

    Content Analytics for the native web.

    2015 · giveitanudge.com · its alternatives →

22. 22AL
    A Lightweight Kafka Alternative▲6

    www.github.com/nubskr/walrus

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Janus – A read/write MySQL proxy for Rails' ActiveRecord 7.1▲7

    2024 · tech.olioex.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Lotus▲3

    A complete web framework for Ruby

    2015 · lotusrb.org · its alternatives →

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