Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hollow: A Modular, Focused Workspace
new features, most notible being focused instances.
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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.
2022 · obsidian.md · its alternatives →
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A few months ago I noticed that I was quickly approaching my 10GB sync limit for my daily driver vault. I considered deprecating some of the heavier files and images, but I was worried how it would affect the integrity of my vault. Instead, I took the opportunity to think to myself -- what would the perfect vault look like? I began to write down some of the key philosophies and strategies I use in my driver vault which led to indispensable plugins, which led to more indispensable philosophies and on and on it went. I've chronicled these results into a fully working vault template that…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The project is a modular, fully customizable digital workspace designed for those who want complete control over their tools. Instead of being locked into predefined workflows, it lets you create, style, and organize tools as cards that seamlessly integrate into your workspace. - How the Project Works Tools - the app's core functionalities are it's tools, for example a notebook, kanban, webview... Limitless Customization - Styling the tools as i refer to each instance of it a 'card' is a another core feature, from minimalist setups to complex multi-card workflows. Plugin System - Extend…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Calderafree▲197Your Obsidian vault as a living profile and linked garden
10d ago · caldera.social · its alternatives →
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Hello HN happy to share with everyone a project of mine. it's a desktop app called Hollow. How i made it : I used Tauri framework with solidjs What does it do : It's an empty canvas that you can place tools inside of it, tools like [Notebook, Kanban, Embed ...], you can make as much instances of the same tool as you want, that way you can have for example 2 notebooks next to each other serving different subjects. or kanban columns one for todo and one for finished task, you can also customize the [size, appearance, position] of these instances. that way you can have a flexible interface. The…
2025 · hollow-space.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Once UI 1.5▲299When 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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Bring joy and visual interactivity to Obsidian Canvas.
Jun 2026 · momansour.com · its alternatives →
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Bun▲295A fast JS runtime Node.js replacement with built‑in tools
Dec 2025 · bun.com · its alternatives →
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A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability - GitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cinder▲122Free and open source library for creative coding in C++
2017 · libcinder.org · its alternatives →
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One template can fulfil all your design requirements
2023 · mackkine01.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Tabs, splits, and tmux work fine until you have several projects open with logs, tests, and long-running shells. I kept rebuilding context instead of resuming work. Horizon puts shells on an infinite canvas. You can arrange them into workspaces and reopen later with layout, scrollback, and history intact. Built in 3 days with Claude/Codex, dogfooding the workflow as I went. Feedback and contributions welcome.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing. Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time. Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it…
2023 · vrite.io · its alternatives →
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momentum 1.0▲91Clutter free innovation driven todo-organizer for max focus😎
2018 · momentum.earth · its alternatives →
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We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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