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24 alternatives to Lambda Island

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lambda Island launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A full Computer Science education - free until you get a job

    2017 · bloomtech.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Master Clojure through project-based courses, live workshops, and a thriving community of practitioners.

    Feb 2026 · clojure.stream · its alternatives →

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    Wikiverse▲119

    An interactive galaxy of Wikipedia knowledge ✨

    2016 · wikiverse.io · its alternatives →

  4. 4HN

    I have ported "The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL" series, https://www.howtographql.com/, from Javascript to Clojure/script. Blog post: https://promesante.github.io/2019/08/14/clojure_graphql_full... Source code GitHub repo: https://github.com/promesante/hn-clj-pedestal-re-frame Suggestions and corrections, more than welcome.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    A community for developers and students of Swift

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Learning Cloud Computing online. Now.

    2014 · platform.qa.com · its alternatives →

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    A nontrivial example for ClojureScript + Firebase. - jacobobryant/mystery-cows

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Frame.io▲151

    Cloud-based collaboration for everything

    2015 · frame.io · its alternatives →

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    The power of the Wolfram language in the cloud

    2014 · wolfram.com · its alternatives →

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    Realtime code sharing for developers

    2014 · codeshare.io · its alternatives →

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    A fun tech personality test

    2015 · tylecacuoc.net · its alternatives →

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    Cwiki▲130

    A Command line interface for searching Wikipedia!

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    iotlist▲141

    Discover the internet of things

    2015 · thegenai.co · its alternatives →

  14. 14IW

    Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    The only multi-platform cloud editor.

    2014 · codeanywhere.com · its alternatives →

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    HyperDev, the fastest way to bang out code and run it online

    2016 · stackoverflow.blog · its alternatives →

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    Lorem for nerds

    2021 · developer-ipsum.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API

    2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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    i had previously posted this when it was aws-rce. it’s changed enough that i want to post it again.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    NW.js▲77

    A new way of writing desktop apps with Web technologies

    2015 · nwjs.io · its alternatives →

  21. 21CO
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    Hawkee▲73

    A writing platform for web developers

    2014 · hawkee.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud Cost Management Tool

    2014 · apptio.com · its alternatives →

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    HTTPie▲7

    HTTP CLI client for humans and makers

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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