Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
Equalize.Digital is a platform designed to fund open source developers, launched in 2019. It provides a way for companies and individuals to support and financially contribute to open source projects and the developers… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding: - Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects. - Each project has to market is self to get significant funding. - Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many. - Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms? So we…
2022 · stackaid.us · its alternatives →
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Plural 2.0▲267Deploy, secure, and scale open-source apps in minutes
2023 · plural.sh · its alternatives →
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Context.dev▲814Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.
Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →
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Everfund▲223Developer-centric donation experiences for the modern web
2023 · everfund.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN We built a tool to help founders understand how modern fundraising (with safes) works, and how much dilution you can expect when raising money. The project is open-source. The code is a mess right now, but it'll get better I promise. You can also help with that. We didn't build this to make money. We genuinely did it because we were looking for it, and couldn't find it. We're in fact in the process of fundraising for a company, and at first glance the process looks simple. Just an excel sheet will do! But then the more we dug into it and tried different simulators, the more we realized…
2024 · fundingsimulator.com · its alternatives →
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Fundable▲100Integrate startup, investor and people data in your product
Jan 2026 · tryfundable.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi Guys, I made a simple platform to buy/sell side projects. Current solutions are over complicated so I decided to make things simpler. Let me know your what you think about this. https://secondfounder.com
2022 · its alternatives →
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2019 · scarf.sh · its alternatives →
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I’m an indie maker, just like many of you. A few months back, I launched a product on one of the big platforms, and... nothing. It got buried under dozens of other launches within hours. All that work, all that excitement is gone in the blink of an eye. No one even saw it. It stung. I wasn’t mad, well, maybe a little but mostly, I just felt invisible. The truth is, indie makers like me don’t have big teams or budgets to fight for visibility. We rely on genuine support and connections. I couldn’t stop thinking about how many great ideas never get the attention they deserve because they’re…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, after months of work we’re excited to show you crowd.dev - the open-source platform for community-led growth. We created crowd.dev with the belief that the future of business relies on thriving communities - particularly in the fast-growing open-source and developer space. Developers have increased buying power when it comes to the technologies their companies use, and the way to their hearts isn’t through paid ads or sales reps but through authentic community interactions. In other words, developer-focused companies (open-source, API, dev tools) need communities to grow. While…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · recursive.gives · its alternatives →
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GiveTrack▲81The future of philanthropy: transparency for charity
2017 · givetrack.org · its alternatives →
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A platform for developers to collaborate together on cool projects and earn a fair share of the profits based on their contribution.
2019 · crowdsourcer.io · its alternatives →
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2022 · r2devops.io · its alternatives →
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AI You Own Owned Intelligence. Built for Enterprise. The open infrastructure, tools, and expertise to build AI your organization actually owns, not rents. T ...
2019 · openteams.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’re Ioannis & Zaf, building Algora.io to help open source projects reward their contributors & grow their communities. 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/algoraio/status/1641560954746839042 The problem: paid contributions in open source are scarce, low trust & high friction Our solution: we built an app that streamlines open source bounties on Github Our 1st customer was Remotion.dev (15.6k stars, Typescript/React) in November 2022, whose feedback helped us ship our Github app & iterate through our bounty workflow. To date, Remotion.dev has rewarded 17…
2023 · console.algora.io · its alternatives →
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Red Hat's footprint & open source movement in Asia
2016 · blcw.me · its alternatives →
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