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24 alternatives to Gouache

Enhance your design to production workflow

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Gouache launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    21st.dev▲1,211

    I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!

    2025 · 21st.dev · its alternatives →

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    Every data pipeline job I had to tackle required quite a few components to set up: - One tool to ingest data - Another one to transform it - If you wanted to run Python, set up an orchestrator - If you need to check the data, a data quality tool Let alone this being hard to set up and taking time, it is also pretty high-maintenance. I had to do a lot of infra work, and while this being billable hours for me I didn’t enjoy the work at all. For some parts of it, there were nice solutions like dbt, but in the end for an end-to-end workflow, it didn’t work. That’s why I decided to build an…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3GF

    2012 · pixelapse.com · its alternatives →

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    Design DB▲221

    A hand-curated database of the best freebies for designers.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Flow▲409

    Animate Sketch designs and generate production-ready code.

    2017 · createwithflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Make▲566

    Visualize all of your Make automations and AI solutions

    2022 · make.com · its alternatives →

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    Dev toolkit to read, change & display data from design files

    2021 · avocode.com · its alternatives →

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    FreeStack▲488

    Free tools & resources for designers

    2016 · freestack.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    Onboard devs to your codebase faster

    2022 · dolar138.me · its alternatives →

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    Render▲318

    Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

    2019 · render.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated free design resources in one place

    2018 · felixjoy.co · its alternatives →

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    Flow 1.0▲215

    Professional Sketch Animation Software

    2018 · createwithflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Trunk▲332

    A powerful version control platform for designers.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Free database diagrams designer for analysts & developers 🛠

    2018 · dbdiagram.io · its alternatives →

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    Get inspired for your future project

    2021 · templateshake.com · its alternatives →

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    When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…

    Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Mirrorful (https://www.mirrorful.com/) is an open-source developer framework that helps front-end engineers manage their design systems. We’ve been building Mirrorful with the open-source community (https://github.com/Mirrorful/mirrorful) and wanted to share our beta with you. Check out our online demo to get the idea: https://app.mirrorful.com/. Design systems can be thought of as the “building blocks of your app” which makes me think of Lego bricks. Mirrorful helps you manage your codebase’s Lego bricks and ensure that they are…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free database design & management, reporting and forms

    2023 · valentina-db.com · its alternatives →

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    Collection of 200+ database diagram templates for developers

    2020 · drawsql.app · its alternatives →

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    Go will take over the world

    2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Professional resources for digital designers

    2018 · files.design · its alternatives →

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    Plant▲147

    Version control for designers, new plugin for Sketch

    2018 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    On-demand design services. No vetting. No quoting. 🎉

    2018 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    We built Gonzo to make log analysis faster and friendlier in the terminal. Think of it like k9s for logs — a TUI that can ingest JSON, text, or OpenTelemetry (OTLP) logs, highlight and boil up patterns, and even run AI models locally or via API to summarize logs. We’re still iterating, so ideas and contributions are welcome!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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