Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Fog Creek - Success and failure at Fog Creek
Joel Spolsky & team reflect on 15 yrs of Fog Creek Software
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Fog Creek - Success and failure at Fog Creek launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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And how to fix them with Justin Searls
2015 · its alternatives →
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The challenges of finding skilled coders and growing two bu…
2015 · its alternatives →
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How to hire and interview developers
2015 · its alternatives →
- 4HD
2016 · hyperdev.com · its alternatives →
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- 6IL
Please check it out. I spent all of 2012 learning to code to launch what would eventually become Uncover. I'm super excited to announce that we're finally live. Here's a blog post I wrote on how we got there and a little story behind the startup: http://spencerfry.com/introducing-uncover
2013 · uncover.com · its alternatives →
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Bytes: Reconstructing an old industry with technology (Alex Snyder, CEO and Co-Founder, Site2Site)▲54Building software for the "unsexy" construction industry
2016 · its alternatives →
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The 3rd dysfunction of a software team
2016 · its alternatives →
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Microsoft's interest in open source and Sean's progress imp…
2015 · its alternatives →
- 11IL
Sysadmin is my bread and butter, but I taught myself PHP and have been coding on and off for the past 6 years. I've worked on numerous freelance gigs, but mainly internal apps that I use for my real job. I worked on this project (on and off) for the past year and I'm happy to finally release it to the public. Even if it doesn't succeed, I'm happy that I was able to "scratch an itch" I've had for the past couple of years. I wanted to make something and prove to myself that I can program. I'm not the greatest, but I'm proud of what I've achieved. http://www.ikeepm.com
2011 · its alternatives →
- 12OS
Fog Creek gave us a couple of months to work on something "new" for the company. After a ton of brainstorming, we came up with an idea kind of like JS fiddle for CSS, but with instant hosting baked-in. The result is http://webputty.net WebPutty is built on Google AppEngine (a first for Fog Creek) using Python with Flask and Jinja2. We'd love to hear what you think and if you find it useful!
2011 · its alternatives →
- 13OA
2017 · oppslist.com · its alternatives →
- 142G
4 months ago sucked. Our technical co-founder quit after 6 months and we still had no product. My co-founder and I had been 'working' on our startup for 8 months. I say 'working' because as the "business people" - there wasn't a whole lot we could do except philosophize. We had gotten really awesome intros to some of the top VCs and entrepreneurs, but had nothing to show. And now we felt stranded. Had we wasted 8 months of our lives? Identity crisis? Check. So we did what any rational person would do - we ran to the mountains. Literally. In Boone, NC - we talked about why we started Knowit,…
2012 · its alternatives →
- 15MP
My weekly(ish) video logs tracking my progress of building a completely sound statically typed language and structural editor. The motivation is to make lots of invalid programs unrepresentable.
2022 · petersaxton.uk · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News, I have finished this after 2 months and made the entire thing free (up to 2 projects) for you all to try out, all you need is an account. Thansk and enjoy, Dan
2024 · flourishfreelance.com · its alternatives →
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Vibe coding is great at producing bugs after all.
May 2026 · jimmysastra.com · its alternatives →
- 18IB
Hello all, I built about 2 years ago a coding website for kids, teens and adults: https://codeguppy.com Despite my efforts to promote the website it is still not well know. I post almost daily about it on Twitter at https://twitter.com/codeguppy ... but even there I don't have views. The website is fun... although I still have a ton of things to add. I appreciate if you take a look and suggest improvements and most importantly help me with spreading the news about this website. I really need a boost! Thanks all!
2021 · its alternatives →
- 19MM
I kept on reading you guys on how to do it, how not to do it. On January I started with thinkpython, learn python the hard way, mit course on programming, and every other python material I found. You just need to find the best resourse for YOU. I did Udacity's CS253 course, got my certificate and made my MVP! If your one of those guys like me, just get your ideas out there and the project will push you forward. Farm management software in South America is broken. We still have cd and downloadable updates. We've seen www.farmlogs.com and www.farmeron.com for USA and Europe. How about…
2012 · its alternatives →
- 20WV
Hi HN, I'm the CEO at https://replay.io. We've been working on time travel debugging for web development for a while (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539247) and more recently an AI app builder that uses that debugger to get past problems instead of spinning in circles (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258585). We've gotten to where we can pretty easily build apps to replace business-critical SaaS tools, some of which we're now using internally: * We built our own issue tracker to keep track of all our development projects, tickets, bug…
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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Recall▲16One developer solves it. Every developer knows it.
Feb 2026 · recall.team · its alternatives →
- 22LC
2014 · hangouts.readthesource.io · its alternatives →
- 23MC
I've been building mmerch.com alone for roughly the past two years part time. I'm really hoping I can get some reviews/critiques on it. Thanks! mmerch.com
2013 · its alternatives →
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3vzYfOMUcIkd_1CzICEkH1IR...
Apr 2026 · absl.design · its alternatives →
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