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24 alternatives to Microplatforms

A DevOps aggregator in the spirit of HackerNews & Lobste.rs

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Microplatforms launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    The open-source Typeform alternative, and much more

    2022 · snoopforms.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Handy developer tools with a delightful interface

    2021 · smalldev.tools · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Free valuations and analytics for your SaaS startup

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Create Forms that People Love.

    2025 · kiform.co · its alternatives →

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    Portal for integrating and running third party web apps

    2023 · totaljs.com · its alternatives →

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    Community built to share popular programming snippets.

    2020 · cheatsheets.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open source micro-survey tool for B2B SaaS

    2023 · formbricks.com · its alternatives →

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    KwesForms▲110

    The most complete form service for developers

    2024 · kwesforms.com · its alternatives →

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    I can't tell if HN is the right kind of place for this stuff anymore since people are so advanced in their use but I thought it was interesting to leverage my existing Go microservices framework and turn it into the core of what would provide tools for an agent cli or whatever beyond that. Extensibility is key. Thought I'd share and get a conversation going.

    2020 · go-micro.dev · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    Public analytics as a Node.js microservice 📈

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    gimbap▲70

    A developer tool for microservice clustering recommendations

    2021 · its alternatives →

  13. 13MW
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    Polyglot Front-End Solution for running multiple frameworks as one - eavichay/microfronts

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Next generation form endpoints for developers.

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    micro-gl▲101

    Run vector graphics on any computer (without GPU or FPU)

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Design and deploy infrastructure to AWS using no-code app

    2025 · archformation.com · its alternatives →

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    Provision cloud resources using Kubernetes CRDs & Terraform

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm Brandon, a solo dev, and I built KubeForge - a visual editor for Kubernetes deployments that helps you build and validate YAML configs. Origin Story: Over the past couple weeks, I got fed up manually writing Kubernetes YAMLs, especially when working with nested structures like containers, env, and volumeMounts. Even small typos or misaligned fields added lost time to broken deploys. So I started hacking together a tool to visualize the structure of Kubernetes objects based on the OpenAPI schema. That prototype quickly turned into a full manifest builder. What KubeForge does: -…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21AI

    Hello Hacker News! We're Roxane, Julien, Pierre, Mawen and Stephane from Anyshift.io. We are building a GitHub app (and platform) that detects Terraform complex dependencies (hardcoded values, intricated-modules, shadow IT…), flags potential breakages, and provides a Terraform ‘Superplan’ for your changes. To do that we create and maintain a digital twin of your infrastructure using Neo4j. - 2 min demo : https://app.guideflow.com/player/dkd2en3t9r - try it now: https://app.anyshift.io/ (5min setup). We experienced how dealing with IaC/Terraform is…

    2025 · app.anyshift.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22MJ
  23. 23MI
  24. 24KS

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