Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Help Amazon EC2 be a foremost supporter of WikiLeaks and Tor
I just set up a new Amazon EC2 account, free for one year, with their Free Usage Tier (http://aws.amazon.com/free/) and installed a Tor Proxy on it. Quite easy to do and as long as you keep an eye on the transfer volume it doesn't cost a dime! (30 GB are free) Why not help Amazon to be a first class supporter of WikiLeaks and the first amendment?
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Help Amazon EC2 be a foremost supporter of WikiLeaks and Tor launched in 2010; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported…
2023 · non.io · its alternatives →
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Bitport Torrents▲118Download torrents to your cloud and stream them securely :)
2015 · bitport.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! Daniele, Ilia, and Thomas here to share Cloudthread’s new Cost Savings Hub to help companies surface and eliminate cloud waste. We’re putting our money where our mouth is: for the next two weeks, find over $500 in monthly AWS savings with Cloudthread’s Savings Hub or we’ll give you a $100 Amazon Gift Card. More context: https://www.cloudthread.io/aws-save-or-get-paid Most cloud infrastructure managers know there’s waste in their cloud environment but it’s challenging and time consuming to 1) surface all the waste, 2) convert those opportunities into actualized…
2023 · cloudthread.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend by buying and selling 3-year no-upfront reserved instances. Why? Because there's almost no liquidity on the AWS EC2 RI Marketplace and it can take a while, if at all, to sell an RI if you need to stop using one. Previous to founding Usage, I worked at JPMorgan Chase as a summer analyst. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live…
2023 · its alternatives →
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I made a simple site that allows you to upload files. It requires no sign up and 100% free. The biggest advantage is that it returns you the direct URL to your file. So you can use it to store images for MD-based forum posts. Or put in your site's . I use the Cloudflare R2 storage which offers zero egress fees. So I pay $0 of transfer costs. I added a simple anti-nsfw files check and a simple anti-malware check. Please do not try to break it. Thanks! (>‿◠)
2024 · uploadfile.click · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, My name's Kaveh: I'm the founder of www.usage.ai EC2 Pricing: https://ec2pricing.usage.ai/ I thought the previous generation of EC2 Pricing Pages were getting quite slow and a bit buggy. So, I'm excited to announce that we launched a free, new EC2 pricing page for the community. Do you often look up EC2 Pricing? Would love to hear your thoughts direct: [email protected]
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hey folks! I'm building an app to let anyone shop on Amazon with crypto. How it works: [1] Add "baggins.ai/" before any Amazon product URL [2] Fill in your shipping details [3] Pay with your preferred wallet (BTC, ETH, DOGE, USDC, and more) Features: - Supports 1-2 day Prime shipping - Uses Coinbase Commerce for secure transactions Here's an early version for y'all to test: https://www.baggins.ai/ Keen to get feedback on the UX and feature requests! My LI to show that it’s not a scam :) https://www.linkedin.com/in/kisum-chan/
2024 · baggins.ai · its alternatives →
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wsgrok▲7I built it for myself because ngrok didn't let me add one more domain unless I paid $12 more. I probably should've looked for alternatives before building my own, but my grudge got in the way . Once I started, I wanted to make it better than the other options. Silly, I know. No one probably cares. I plan to open source it sometime next year because I’ve got other projects to finish first. It's free until I deplete my cloud credits, then it will switch to a tier-based model with a free option.
Jan 2026 · wsgrok.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched a new free tool to help engineers understand their AWS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up end up becoming cloud accountants or end up forking over a big % of their AWS bill for a tool to understand costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how this new tool works: It's fully self-serve and…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — solo developer here. I built this tool ~4 years ago purely to solve my own frustration with CORS and repeated proxy setup. The idea was intentionally boring: just prefix a URL and get control over the request and response. Somehow it grew to serving billions of requests per day, including usage by companies and universities. I’m sharing it here mainly to: - get technical feedback - learn what people would actually use a proxy like this for - understand what I should simplify or remove
Feb 2026 · corsproxy.io · its alternatives →
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So I made this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221 Feel free to use/adapt/modify as you please.
2013 · its alternatives →
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2020 · doublespend.io · its alternatives →
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Protect Your Anonymity
2016 · archive.torproject.org · its alternatives →
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2013 · kbhpodhnfxl3clb4.onion.to · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HackerNews, Ruslan here. I once posted here a story how I got AWS $4k surprise bill for one day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907374), which is why I built DollarDeploy. I believe 95% of apps don't need complicated AWS infrastructure and can be hosted using simple server from Hetzner, Digital Ocean, etc. Today I am launching an AI agent on DollarDeploy. The AI agent can automatically build and deploy your NextJS/React, Go, Rust, or other types of apps to your own servers, running all commands via SSH on your server. You just type your commands or paste your…
2025 · dollardeploy.com · its alternatives →
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This idea has been floating in my head for about 10 years. Some of you might remember LowEndSpirit.com back before it became a forum, I started that. I've been obsessed with making tiny, cheap VPS actually useful ever since. TierHive is my attempt to make 128MB VPS great again :) It's a NAT VPS (KVM) platform with true hourly billing. Spin up a server, use it for 3 hours, delete it, pay for 3 hours. No monthly commitments, no minimums beyond a $5 top-up. The tradeoff is NAT (no dedicated IPv4), but I've tried to make that less painful: - Every account gets a /24 private subnet with full…
Mar 2026 · tierhive.com · its alternatives →
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AtomCard▲8Hey HN! I’m the maker of AtomCard. We aimed to remove KYC hassles and payment barriers for crypto users worldwide. Let me know what you think or if there’s anything you’d like to see added
2025 · atomcard.cc · its alternatives →
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