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24 alternatives to Losant Kiln

The fastest way to build APIs for IoT applications

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

1. 1
   Losant IoT Platform▲121

   Build and visualize real-time IoT solutions with ease.

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Losant Go / Discontinued▲98

   Losant has discontinued this product.

   2016 · losant.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Losant▲6

   Build and Visualize Real-time IoT Solutions

   2016 · losant.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative▲268

   🌙 The minimal & fast library for functional user interfaces - kbrsh/moon

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   IOpipe▲107

   Application operations platform for serverless

   2017 · iopipe.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Frame.IoT▲70

   An Arduino-compatible dev kit for wi-fi projects

   2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

7. 7GI
   Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 10s installation time▲230

   2017 · gitly.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Serverless Components▲189

   An easier way to build applications with cloud services

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Huly.io▲277

   Open source all-in-one project management platform

   2024 · huly.io · its alternatives →

10. 10
    kiln – Git-native, decentralized secret management using age▲12

    Hi HN, I've been building this tool for the past couple of weeks to solve a problem that seems universal across development teams: sharing environment variables securely. You know the drill - someone needs the staging database URL, so it gets shared over chat. Production API keys end up in plaintext files. Or you set up some complex secret management system that becomes a single point of failure during critical deployments. At Zerodha, we're a stock broker with strict regulatory requirements. Our infrastructure needs to be auditable, and our data must stay with us for instant recovery. But…

    2025 · kiln.sh · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Bytebeam▲134

    Build ESP32-based IoT projects 10X faster

    2022 · bytebeam.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Apisentris▲86

    Instantly build APIs in seconds from your database schema

    2018 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    IoTFlows▲67

    IoT platform for Linux

    2021 · iotflows.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Rapid - Real-time Database Service▲184

    Build real-time apps without maintaining the infrastructure

    2017 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Flatend – Quickly build microservices using P2P networking in Node/Go▲145

    Quickly build microservices using p2p networking in NodeJS/Go. - lithdew/flatend

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    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 →

17. 17
    Nimbella▲91

    Simple serverless cloud for developers

    2020 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Lualtek▲70

    Your virtual agronomist without internet and electricity

    2023 · lualtek.io · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Backendless▲99

    Build scalable apps at lightning speed, coding optional

    2023 · backendless.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Backbench▲101

    Rapidly build and run serverless applications

    2019 · backbench.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Catalyst by Zoho▲97

    The simplest pro-code developer platform

    2021 · catalyst.zoho.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Kiln – AI Boilerplate with Evals, Fine-Tuning, Synthetic Data, and Git▲10

    I noticed there weren't boilerplates for AI projects like there were for web apps, so I built one. Same idea - everything you need to get a project up and running quickly. However, instead of web-framework/CSS/DB, it's tools for AI projects: evals, synthetic data gen, fine-tuning, and more. Kiln is a free, open tool that gives you everything most AI projects need in one integrated package: - Eval system: including LLM-as-judge evals, eval data generation, human baselines - Fine-tuning: proxy to many fine-tuning providers like Fireworks/Together/OpenAI/Unsloth -…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Sqira Beta▲96

    Build an IoT project minus the hassle with server and codes.

    2019 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Eclipse Streamsheets▲86

    No-code platform to monitor and visualize IoT real-time data

    2021 · cedalo.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →