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24 alternatives to Gumpbox

Hi HN community, I'm the maker behind Gumpbox, a native macOS app that connects AI agents to your Linux servers. Stop typing commands. Just tell Claude or ChatGPT what to do. Deploy apps, restart services, check server health - all through conversation. AI agents execute everything through Gumpbox's built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server running locally on your Mac. AI-Powered Server Management - Built-in MCP server connects Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI agent to your infrastructure - Chat to deploy: "Deploy the latest build to production" - Chat to debug: "Why is nginx using so much…

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 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

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    AI Toolbox (formerly ChatGPT Toolbox): folders, search, bulk export, and prompt chaining for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. 40,000+ users. Start free.

    Jul 2026 · ai-toolbox.co · its alternatives →

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    NitroStackfree tier, from $30/mo▲240

    Build, test, and deploy MCP servers in one place

    14d ago · nitrostack.ai · its alternatives →

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    Agent 37▲401

    Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?

    Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! We open sourced all our current MCP servers to platforms like Slack, Google sheets, Linear, Perplexity and will be contributing a few more integrations every day to the project. problems we're hoping to solve: - Many people are creating MCP servers for the same apps. They're scattered across different repos but flavors of the same thing. We're making one standardized mono project for all MCP servers. - Startups are charging for hosting MCP servers. This is blocking tons of people from being able to play around with MCP casually. We're hosting them for free. - Non-technical people…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Make AI IDEs even smarter with your team’s knowledge

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    MCP-Builder.aifree tier, from $29/mo▲174

    The fastest way to connect your data with your AI Tools.

    Aug 2026 · mcp-builder.ai · its alternatives →

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    The Official MCP Bridge to GitHub APIs

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn any API into an MCP server for AI agents

    Jun 2026 · apitomcp.ai · its alternatives →

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    2,500+ APIs and 10,000+ tools for your AI assistant

    2025 · mcp.pipedream.com · its alternatives →

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    Search your highlights and notes inside Claude and ChatGPT

    Aug 2026 · glasp.co · its alternatives →

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    Chat with your software, across 2700+ apps with 10k+ tools

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Native macOS ChatGPT app with powerful screenshot tools

    2022 · manuelkehl.com · its alternatives →

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    Make private company knowledge usable for AI

    Aug 2026 · backengine.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, I've wanted an easy way to control which mcp server tools are available to clients. So for example, I might want a gmail server to only expose the read tool (but not send, delete etc). I figured if I create a cli for spawning mcp servers, I could intercept the stdin, stdout, stderr etc and modify what the clients see when they are making calls to list tools, resources, and prompts. Well it worked! In the initial version you can easily add a server to claude with a safe list of tools: npx -y mcpgod add @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything --client claude --tools=echo,add…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chatbox▲103

    Better UI & Desktop App for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs.

    2023 · chatboxai.app · its alternatives →

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    Docket▲114

    Like Jira but for indie devs and AI agents

    Mar 2026 · drobinin.com · its alternatives →

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    We built a Rust MCP server, which wraps the excellent headless terminal (HT)[1] to makes it available for agentic coding tools. Most agentic coding tools struggle with blocking, interactive terminal tools (all the boilerplate generator, infra CLI tools etc). This is because many existing CLI dev tools are built for humans and require interactive input. We built this so agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Memex, etc) can “see” and “interact” with terminals exactly like humans do. In our demo video [2], you'll see it operating vim/emacs just as a human would - selecting options,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy real apps from ChatGPT or Claude in seconds

    Apr 2026 · appdeploy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Connect ChatGPT/Claude to your apps (GitHub, Notion, etc.)

    2025 · anyquery.dev · its alternatives →

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    Unlock the full potential of ChatGPT

    2025 · thinkboxai.com · its alternatives →

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    Built a terminal-based chat application that interact with AI models while keeping full control of chat data. Simple but effective MCP client implementation.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built an unofficial CLI and MCP server for Lambda cloud GPU instances. The main idea: your AI agents can now spin up and manage Lambda GPUs for you. The MCP server exposes tools to find, launch, and terminate instances. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, or any agent with one command and you can say things like "launch an H100, ssh in, and run big_job.py" Other features: - Notifications via Slack, Discord, or Telegram when instances are SSH-ready - 1Password support for API keys - Also includes a standalone CLI with the same functionality Written in Rust. MIT licensed. Note: This is an…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built an MCP server that connects coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex) to a collaborative workspace where your team and other AI models can review what the agent is planning. The problem: When Claude Code creates an implementation plan, it lives in your terminal session. Nobody else sees it until it becomes a PR. If you want GPT to check the architecture or a teammate to flag issues, you're copy-pasting between windows. This MCP server fixes that. When your agent creates a plan, it gets shared as a collaborative thread in CoChat. Engineers comment on it, other AI models…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, we're Andrew and Stephen from Keyboard (https://www.keyboard.dev/). After building AI tools for the past year, we recently made a YouTube video on building MCP servers and realized MCP is a total game-changer. It essentially lets AI do anything by connecting to your apps. But the deeper we dove, the clearer it became that security and privacy were complete afterthoughts. Coming from backgrounds at Okta and Stripe, this made us pretty uncomfortable. We kept seeing the same pattern: every app needs its own MCP server, each storing sensitive tokens, with minimal…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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