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24 alternatives to FindMeGrant

Perplexity powered Grants and Fund searching

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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    We built a search engine interface on top of OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing that summarizes and cites top search results in response to natural language questions. By using search results, the AI is able to reference recent news and provide citations for specific facts. Our interface offers concise answers, without having to click through links, scroll past irrelevant content, or read ads. No login is required; no personal data is collected. We believe in the power of combining the intuitive UI of web search with the intelligence of large language models. The search engine does indexing…

    2025 · perplexity.ai · its alternatives →

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    21st Fund▲151

    I built this after struggling to find relevant grants and fellowships myself. The project started at the EF Hackathon as a credit underwriting and matching agent for founders. After speaking with founders and students, it became clear that discovery itself was the bigger problem. Most people do not know what grants or non-dilutive options exist for them. So I iterated and built 21st.fund. You describe who you are and what you are building, and the tool surfaces relevant grants, fellowships, and programs. The goal is to reduce time spent digging through scattered government sites, PDFs, and…

    Jan 2026 · 21st.fund · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I am Jiayuan, and I'm here to introduce a tool we've been building over the past few months: Devv (https://devv.ai). In simple terms, it is an AI-powered search engine specifically designed for developers. Now, you might ask, with so many AI search engines already available—Perplexity, You.com, Phind, and several open-source projects—why do we need another one? We all know that Generative Search Engines are built on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)[1] combined with Large Language Models (LLMs). Most of the products mentioned above use indexes from general search engines…

    2024 · devv.ai · its alternatives →

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    Product Hunt for crowdfunding projects

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Search and discovery with AI

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    APIs: Find and Be Found

    2014 · apis.io · its alternatives →

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    Find the best active AI software & compute grants & credits

    2025 · hackernoon.ai · its alternatives →

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    Power your products with web-wide research, Q&A capabilities

    Mar 2026 · docs.perplexity.ai · its alternatives →

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    Apiary▲101

    Blueprint for API Development

    2013 · apiary.io · its alternatives →

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    Where software projects & startups find collaborators

    2017 · crowdforge.io · its alternatives →

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    Search online with the power of AI. Try now!

    2024 · omniplex.ai · its alternatives →

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    Developers get full index power with instant accuracy

    2025 · perplexity.ai · its alternatives →

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    Product Hunt for Kickstarter Projects

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Stop wasting hours searching for grants

    2025 · findgrant.ai · its alternatives →

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    Funding stories in the public interest.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Your Personalized AI-Powered Search Engine Builder

    2024 · gensearch.serenebase.com · its alternatives →

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    A Funding Revolution for women and diversity groups.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Business Crowdfunding

    2014 · fundable.com · its alternatives →

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    easy financial modeling

    2014 · funded.io · its alternatives →

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    Nest for Farming

    2014 · apitronics.com · its alternatives →

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    Search for talented people

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Crowdsourced funds for product features

    2014 · reistebrij.nl · its alternatives →

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    Grant search engine & expert marketplace

    2021 · opengrants.io · its alternatives →

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    Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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