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24 alternatives to Liquid

Seamless and customizable auth and user management

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Liquid launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server▲190

   Ory Hydra is the open-source, OpenID Certified® OAuth 2.0 server and OpenID Connect provider. Cloud-native, API-first, and built for scale.

   2019 · gethydra.sh · its alternatives →

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   Liquid Metal▲316

   Paper is a new design tool. We launched into open alpha today. Anyone can now sign up and use Paper. We started Paper about 1 year ago with the goal to bring more creativity back into design tools. It feels like the existing options are becoming increasingly corporate. To celebrate to launch, we published a new shader that lets anyone see their logo in Apple's new heat map animation style. There is no sign-up needed at heat.paper.design. We're always looking for feedback from anyone who uses Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, or Illustrator, about what they most need in their professional design…

   2025 · app.paper.design · its alternatives →

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   Portal - Run apps on your own easy to use cloud server▲86

   2015 · portalplatform.net · its alternatives →

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   Hyper_ – Simple and Secure Container Cloud▲88

   2016 · blog.hyper.sh · its alternatives →

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   Refinery▲222

   The power of serverless made easy via a drag-and-drop editor

   2019 · refinery.io · its alternatives →

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   Dock Certs▲81

   Make any data fraud-proof and instantly verifiable

   2023 · truvera.io · its alternatives →

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   Liquid▲90

   App analytics & personalisation

   2014 · its alternatives →

8. 8FI
   Fluid iPad App Concept▲179

   2011 · momo.brauchtman.net · its alternatives →

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   Render▲318

   Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

   2019 · render.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenShip▲154

    Open source PaaS on your server or in the cloud. No lock in.

    Aug 2026 · openship.io · its alternatives →

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    Liquid Wave▲251

    Gradients to decor your info, product & marketing visuals

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Vessel▲232

    Your passport for the internet

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source Auth for NextJS / React▲107

    Add open source login to any Next.js and React single page app (SPA) using free open source.

    2021 · ory.dev · its alternatives →

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    Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss▲177

    Hey HN – I built Dock after years of team chat frustrations as a founder. Free forever for teams up to 5. Unlimited search, unlimited history. No "upgrade to see messages older than 90 days" nonsense. Built for teams who work both async and sync/real-time when it matters. runs on SOC 2 infra, compliant, secure and in-transit and at-rest encryption, runs on Cloudflare. Early stage – would love feedback from anyone who's felt the same pain.

    Jan 2026 · getdock.io · its alternatives →

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    Flow▲78

    The Blockchain for Open Worlds ⛓️🌎

    2019 · flow.com · its alternatives →

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    Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP.▲118

    2011 · adeel.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Codetainer – A Docker container in your browser▲42

    A Docker container in your browser. Contribute to codetainerapp/codetainer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Aqueduct – Dart on the Server▲60

    Aqueduct: A cohesive server-side framework for Dart, including controllers, routing, OAuth 2.0, ORM, database migrations and CLI.

    2017 · aqueduct.io · its alternatives →

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    Dockter▲70

    A low-overhead, open-source Docker log management tool

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Open-source OAuth2 & OpenID server Ory Hydra v2▲108

    Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go. -

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Devex▲105

    Your own open-source, containerized and shareable cloud IDE.

    2025 · devx.parthkapoor.me · its alternatives →

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    Dockside (Open-Source)▲105

    Provision dev containers and staging environments with IDEs

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Meltano Cloud▲83

    Open source CLI & version control for EL without limitations

    2023 · meltano.com · its alternatives →

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    Resin.io – Push Updates to Linux Devices with Git and Docker▲62

    balenaCloud: Manage fleets of IoT Linux devices with balena’s cloud platform. First 10 devices are free. Develop, deploy, and scale your IoT fleet.

    2015 · resin.io · its alternatives →

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