Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Locus Build
Build, Ship, Deploy, Earn
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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Locus Founder▲102Text an AI agent and it builds + runs your business
Jun 2026 · locusfounder.com · its alternatives →
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BuildShip▲420Low-code visual backend builder, powered by AI
2023 · buildship.com · its alternatives →
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BuildShip V2▲617Visually develop backend APIs and workflows with AI
2024 · buildship.com · its alternatives →
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SimplAIfree tier, from $5/mo▲589Hey HN, I've been building SimplAI for the past several months — it's a platform for building, testing, and deploying LLM-powered agents and multi-step workflows. The problem I kept running into: spinning up an AI agent pipeline means stitching together prompt management, tool calling, memory, evals, and deployment — often from scratch every time. SimplAI tries to be the layer that handles all of that so you can focus on what your agent actually does. What it does: - Visual + code-first workflow builder for chaining LLM calls, tools, and APIs - Built-in prompt versioning and A/B testing…
2025 · simplai.ai · its alternatives →
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Buildstash▲168Hey HN! We just launched open sign up on Buildstash. It's a platform for managing and sharing software binaries. I'd worked across game dev, mobile apps, and agencies - and found every team had no real system for managing their built binaries. Often just dumped in a shared folder (if someone remembered!). No system for versioning, keeping track of who'd signed off what when, or what exact build had gone to a client, etc. Existing tools out there for managing build artifacts are really focused on package repository management. But miss all the other types of software not being deployed that…
2025 · buildstash.com · its alternatives →
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Build0▲349Build custom internal apps in minutes, no coding required
Nov 2025 · build0.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?
Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · app.build · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News! Launching gptengineer.app into beta today. It's like Claude Artifacts, but: - you can edit the code in your fav IDE (two-way github sync) - installs npm packages - automatically picks up build and runtime errors and fixes them - very fast, built with rust The full stack capabilities are built on supabase (prefer to not have to handle auth + user data at this point so this is owned by the user) The seed for this project was an open source experiment, posted about that previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730 Would love feedback if you give…
2024 · gptengineer.app · its alternatives →
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Agent Runners▲185Build and ship with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini in Netlify
2025 · netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Subterranean▲80Explored building a vibe coding platform but with built-in solutions for db, backend, auth, and other features tightly coupled together. Thanks for checking it out!
Feb 2026 · subterranean.io · its alternatives →
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Hal9▲118Built for startup founders: Turn vibe-coded demos into production-ready AI apps and agents. Hal9 gives you platform + services with simple credit pricing for fast scaling.
Jan 2026 · hal9.com · its alternatives →
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Golang is an incredible language for web development. That being said, indie developers and small businesses will likely miss extensive resources found in other projects like Django. Although building an application from the ground up using the standard library is possible, it can be error prone and time consuming. Pocketbase has almost everything an indie developer needs, supporting database, authentication, and file storage into a single, easy-to-deploy executable. Combined with HTMX, and you can created a full stack web application without bloated front end frameworks. That being said,…
2024 · deploysolo.com · its alternatives →
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jambuild▲129Near instant multiplayer vibecoding, just point and talk
23d ago · jambuild.dev · its alternatives →
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AI Hive ▲53Build, deploy, and run all your AI agents in one platform.
May 2026 · app.aihive.global · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I am Harini and along with my co-founder Shams, we just launched BuildShip. We are the team behind Rowy.io and we created BuildShip based all the feedback/and user requests we got from Rowy's community of no-code/low-code builders and developers. Today you can create your backend workflows using nocode tools (but they lack scalability, flexibility, and extensibility and end up being expensive). Or you have to code them and deploy them to a cloud platform of your choice (you end up spending a lot of time reading docs, looking up CLIs, and context switching) - this is…
2023 · buildship.com · its alternatives →
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Your E-com Marketplace Built Easy - No development cost!
Feb 2026 · buildecommerce.app · its alternatives →
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Speculos▲19Type "deploy" in Claude Code. Your app is live.
Jul 2026 · speculos.ai · its alternatives →
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