Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker
🪄 Spin up ready-to-code, disposable dev environments on your own servers. Self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and Github Codespaces. - hocus-dev/hocus
Hocus is a self-hosted development environment platform built on Firecracker that provides functionality similar to GitHub Codespaces. Developers can run containerized workspaces on their own infrastructure instead of… 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. Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Dev community that lets you blog on your domain for free
2020 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · selfhostedsource.tech · its alternatives →
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Webapp.io is a DevOps platform for developers of modern webapps.
2023 · webapp.io · its alternatives →
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A low code platform to build internal tools
2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source API development — now on-premise!
2023 · hoppscotch.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · findka.com · its alternatives →
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The Unified and Autonomous Development Platform. Contribute to theonedev/onedev development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Croct▲387We just launched Croct Templates, a way to drop CMS-powered components into your app with a single command. It's like Shadcn, but for CMS, AB testing and personalization: * Built-in support for A/B testing, content editing, and dynamic logic * Works with existing projects (Next.js, React, etc.) * Supports community libraries via `npm://`, `shadcn-ui://`, etc. Example: ```bash npx croct@latest use shadcn-ui://block/pricing-page ``` Happy to answer any questions!
2025 · croct.com · its alternatives →
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I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow. I didn't expect it to blow up, so it wasn't 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly. Happy to know what you think and talk about it.
May 2026 · ghost.charity · its alternatives →
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Board For GitHub▲293A webview based GitHub project app with native features
2017 · justinfincher.github.io · its alternatives →
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Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…
Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Hakan, the founder of Colanode (https://github.com/colanode/colanode), an open-source, local-first collaboration app combining the best of Slack-style chats and Notion-style note-taking, fully self-hostable for complete data control. Here's a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1hoSCEArg As a heavy Notion user, I often found it tough to get my teams fully onboard since people naturally gravitate toward chat for quick interactions. Maintaining context between chat apps like Slack and documentation apps like Notion became increasingly…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, As most of you (I think?), I cannot learn something without having a project, on the side, to implement what I’ve just learned. Recode is the project that I've used to learn Go. It lets you create a development environment in your cloud provider account easily. You can think of it as a desktop version of Gitpod / Coder / GitHub Codespaces less polished and with less features but 100% free, 100% open-source and 100% community-driven. At the time of writing, it only works with Visual Studio Code and AWS. In order to let you configure your development environments easily, I’ve…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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pi pod runs your pi session in a cloud pod. pipod.dev
19d ago · pipod.dev · its alternatives →
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A self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist
2022 · drift.maxleiter.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Happy to finally launch Stack. We made it because we like to put apps into production quickly, and authentication & user management was taking up way too much time. We have components like and that automatically adapt to whatever theme & design system you're using. Check the blog post to see the example with Radix UI and Joy UI. Also, there's an admin dashboard for monitoring and editing accounts. Stack is 100% AGPL/MIT-licensed, so you can self-host it. Cheers!
2024 · stack-auth.com · its alternatives →
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Coder▲103Self-managed Codespaces alternative that works on any cloud
2022 · coder.com · its alternatives →
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Spin up secure sandboxes in ~100 ms
Nov 2025 · hopx.ai · its alternatives →
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Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DevClad[https://devclad.com] is a social-workspace platform for developers to team up on projects and hackathons seamlessly. It functions by matching you 1-on-1 with a compatible developer every week :)
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been frustrated with dependency hell and clutter on my VPS from dev, so I built Devbox: a lightweight, open-source CLI tool that spins up isolated development environments using Docker. Each project runs in its own container, but your code stays in simple flat folders on the host machine—no messing with volumes or sync issues. Environments are disposable, so you can nuke and recreate them without losing your work. Key features: - Instant setup: `devbox init my-project` and you're in a fresh env with `devbox shell`. - Configurable via JSON: Define packages, services, and more in a…
2025 · devbox.ar0.eu · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone - Looking for feedback for this new open source project we launched. It's called DevPod and it's built on the devcontainer.json standard to create reproducible dev environments. It lets you spin up dev environments in any infra, kind of like a Terraform but for dev environments. Compared to hosted services such as Github Codespaces, JetBrains Spaces, or Google Cloud Workstations, DevPod has the following advantages: - Open Source: DevPod is 100% open-source and extensible. A provider doesn’t exist? Just create your own. - Client-only: No need to install a server backend. DevPod…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Deveo▲101Free private code hosting for Git, Mercurial, & SVN
2016 · perforce.com · its alternatives →
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