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24 alternatives to I built a FOSS tool to run your Steam games in the Cloud

I wanted to play my Steam games but my aging PC couldn’t keep up, so I built Cloudy Pad - a tool to run Steam in the Cloud (GitHub: https://github.com/PierreBeucher/cloudypad) It runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway and Paperspace with various cost optimizations and safeties: - Cost alerts - Auto stop inactive instances to avoid unwanted cost - Disk snapshots and data cleanup for cost efficiency - Spot instance support Under the hood: a Linux VM and a container running Sunshine (a streaming server https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) with Steam. Most…

Cloudy Pad is an open-source tool that enables users to run Steam games on cloud infrastructure including AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway, and Paperspace. It streams games from a Linux virtual machine running Steam through… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Ghost▲350

    Open-source, self-hosted game servers

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    Hello HN! I’m Jonathan from TensorDock. After 7 months in beta, we’re finally launching Core Cloud, our platform to deploy GPU virtual machines in as little as 45 seconds! https://www.tensordock.com/product-core Why? Training machine learning workloads at large clouds can be extremely expensive. This left us wondering, “how did cloud ever become more expensive than on-prem?” I’ve seen too many ML startups buy their own hardware. Cheaper dedicated servers with NVIDIA GPUs are not too hard to find, but they lack the functionality and scalability of the big clouds. We thought to…

    2022 · tensordock.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to openwhisk-blog/whisk-chess development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Review of the open source cloud gaming platform, cloudretrio.io written in golang and using WebRTC for low latency, interactive game play

    2020 · webrtchacks.com · its alternatives →

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    Greetings HN! This is Doruk from Oblivus, and I'm excited to announce the launch of our platform, Oblivus Cloud. After more than a year of beta testing, we're excited to offer you a platform where you can deploy affordable and scalable GPU virtual machines in as little as 30 seconds! https://oblivus.com/cloud - What sets Oblivus Cloud apart? At the start of our journey, we had two primary goals in mind: to democratize High-Performance Computing and make it as straightforward as possible. We understand that maintaining GPU servers through major cloud service providers can be…

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    CloudSu▲59

    Open-source app that uses Chef and AWS together beautifully

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on CloudRouter, a skill + CLI that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex the ability to start cloud VMs and GPUs. When an agent writes code, it usually needs to start a dev server, run tests, open a browser to verify its work. Today that all happens on your local machine. This works fine for a single task, but the agent is sharing your computer: your ports, RAM, screen. If you run multiple agents in parallel, it gets a bit chaotic. Docker helps with isolation, but it still uses your machine's resources, and doesn't give the agent a browser, a desktop, or a GPU to…

    Feb 2026 · cloudrouter.dev · its alternatives →

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    Spin highly-scalable Linux containers in 5 secs.Free in beta

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    This is a service I've built to provide equirectangular cloud maps of the whole Earth, updated every 3 hours, for free. It's based on infrared and visible light data from EUMETSAT, processed to enhance the clouds and try to reduce the impact of surface temperatures on the final image. I built it because it's surprisingly hard to find these kinds of images in a format that's useful to developers and hobbyists. I was building a 3D ISS tracker and wanted to include live clouds but couldn't find anything good, so I got sidetracked, and here we are.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Doofy▲69

    India's 1st cloud gaming platform

    2020 · xl4you.nl · its alternatives →

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    Web-based Cloud Gaming service for Retro Game. Contribute to giongto35/cloud-game development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Decentralize, Self-host Cloud Gaming/Application. Contribute to giongto35/cloud-morph development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloudron is a complete solution for running apps on your server and keeping them up-to-date and secure.

    2015 · cloudron.io · its alternatives →

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    Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…

    2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →

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    Open source SQL interface to your favorite cloud APIs🧑‍💻

    2022 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →

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    A secure cloud management platform for automation, orchestration, cost and usage monitoring of public and private clouds, hypervisors and container hosts. Provides multi-cloud RBAC. Enables self service provisioning. Cost analytics and cloud spending optimization

    2013 · mist.io · its alternatives →

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    Build your own cloud in just 20 seconds while avoiding bugs

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    A game engine where you can make games without coding.

    2020 · cloudnovel.net · its alternatives →

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    Instantly query your cloud, code, logs & more with SQL. Build on thousands of open-source benchmarks & dashboards for security & insights.

    2021 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →

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