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24 alternatives to Mqtt Broker for 10 Years

Intended for 10-year (plus hopefully) deployment lifetime on $10-30 of silicon. The kind of thing you screw to a wall, plug in, and walk away from for a decade. No telemetry, no phone-home updates, no external dependencies. Storage decisions get a sanity checked against NVS wear... a write-per-PUBLISH would shred the flash in months, so the retained store and in tables that stay in PSRAM. Its heavily written with AI and borrowed a lot of visuals from Tasmota. Not for production use yet (been currently running it for a month with great results!)

MQTT Broker for 10 Years is an MQTT broker designed to run on low-cost microcontrollers ($10-30) for decade-long deployments with minimal maintenance. It operates without telemetry, external dependencies, or automatic… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Agent 37▲401

    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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    MyMQTT▲67

    The simple message queuing telemetry transport client

    2022 · mymqtt.app · its alternatives →

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    The stack: two agents on separate boxes. The public one (nullclaw) is a 678 KB Zig binary using ~1 MB RAM, connected to an Ergo IRC server. Visitors talk to it via a gamja web client embedded in my site. The private one (ironclaw) handles email and scheduling, reachable only over Tailscale via Google's A2A protocol. Tiered inference: Haiku 4.5 for conversation (sub-second, cheap), Sonnet 4.6 for tool use (only when needed). Hard cap at $2/day. A2A passthrough: the private-side agent borrows the gateway's own inference pipeline, so there's one API key and one billing relationship…

    Mar 2026 · georgelarson.me · its alternatives →

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    Build your own MQTT dashboard in minutes

    2023 · mqtt.studio · its alternatives →

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    We just released an MCP server that lets Claude (or any MCP client) pull real-time and historical financial data: equities, options chains, crypto, FX, commodities, fundamentals, economic indicators, and 50+ technical signals. You can ask things like: “Plot NVDA’s RSI vs AMD’s over the past year.” “Show the yield curve shift since 2020.” “What are Apple’s recent earnings surprise trends? “Make a 3-statement model for ORCL.” Claude runs the requests, does the math, and returns the data or generates charts/models all inside the chat. Setup takes about a minute. You’ll need Claude Pro…

    Nov 2025 · mcp.alphavantage.co · its alternatives →

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    High-performance MQTT Broker messaging middleware.

    2023 · bifromq.apache.org · its alternatives →

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    Connect Devices, Collect & Analyse Data & Visualize it

    2016 · bevywise.com · its alternatives →

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    I keep running in the same problem of each AI app “remembers” me in its own silo. ChatGPT knows my project details, Cursor forgets them, Claude starts from zero… so I end up re-explaining myself dozens of times a day across these apps. The deeper problem 1. Not portable – context is vendor-locked; nothing travels across tools. 2. Not relational – most memory systems store only the latest fact (“sticky notes”) with no history or provenance. 3. Not yours – your AI memory is sensitive first-party data, yet you have no control over where it lives or how it’s queried. Demo video:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Broker-HA is golang MQTT broker with clustering capabilities build for K8s. Its based on `mochi-co/mqtt` and `hashicorp/memberlist`. Features: - Paho MQTT 3.0 / 3.1.1 compatible (drop-in replacement for Mosquitto [MQTT 3.0/3.1.1]) - Clustering! - HTTP API

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cuely▲140

    Pay-as-you-go chatGPT Plus with 5M free token credits

    2023 · cuely.ai · its alternatives →

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    Memoriq▲130

    Archive and search saved conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok in one encrypted AI chat vault.

    Jun 2026 · memoriq.me · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN. I'm Carl, creator of LavinMQ. LavinMQ is an open-source message broker. AMQP 0-9-1, MQTT, HTTP and streaming. Single binary, minimal resource use. If you know RabbitMQ, it's that (but running on a fraction of hardware). We're the team behind CloudAMQP where we've hosted RabbitMQ for 14 years. Sometimes customers hit issues we couldn't fully explain / work around. So we built our own broker, in order to provide solutions where we previously couldn't (which is much easier when you control the full stack). It all started by me building an open-source AMQP proxy to handle short-lived…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fensory▲20

    Turn Claude or ChatGPT into your personal trading desk

    Sep 2026 · fensory.com · its alternatives →

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    EMQX▲6

    The most scalable open-source MQTT broker for IoT

    2019 · emqx.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We're building a caching solution for LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude). By combining cutting-edge approaches, such as edge computing, prompt compression, vectorization, and others - it can reduce your AI bills by up to 10x and significantly lower response times. Key Features: - cost efficiency: our system stores frequent queries, reducing the number of upstream (paid) API calls - fast responses: with various nodes globally, we reduce latency by serving data from the nearest location - scalability: designed to handle increasing loads and data sizes without degrading performance. The cache…

    2024 · edgematic.dev · its alternatives →

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    I kept thinking about what would happen if a message board only had one slot. One message, front and center, until someone pays to replace it. That's the entire product. You pay the current message's decayed value plus a penny to take the homepage. Message values drop over time using a gravity-based formula (same concept HN uses for ranking), so a $10 message might only cost a few bucks to replace a day later. Likes slow the decay, dislikes speed it up. The whole thing runs on three mini PCs in my house (k3s cluster, PostgreSQL, Redis Sentinel). Is it overengineered for a message board?…

    Mar 2026 · saythat.sh · its alternatives →

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    Reduce IoT Infrastructure Cost to 1/10 of Original

    Apr 2026 · smartboot.tech · its alternatives →

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    🦎 A lightweight, multi-protocol gateway for event-driven applications and AI agents. Expose and govern Kafka, MQTT, APIs, and MCP through one high-performance engine with shared routing, security, schema, and observability. - aklivity/zilla

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Shared persistent memory across all your LLMs.

    2025 · teamlayer.xyz · its alternatives →

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    This is like ChatGPT but simpler, with less features (for now). It offers unlimited access to o3, Claude Sonnet 4 and other models for the pro plan. It offers access to o4-mini and the like for the free version. Requests are unlimited up to rate limits that we hope apply to less than 2% of users (they're transparent and can be seen on the account page). I was sick of having these like t3.chat or abacus.ai that give you very few messages for the $8-$10 / month subscription, so wanted to create something closer to Cursor's new pricing but transparent. Image generation will come soon, I…

    2025 · donsir.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and use Gemini through work. Four vendors, four separate conversation histories, four profiles of how I think. None of them talk to each other. Switch providers and you start over. So I built a system where the memory is mine. I run a knowledge graph in Postgres (Supabase, free tier) with pgvector for semantic search. A small MCP server reads and writes to it. That server sits behind an MCP Gateway on a $6/month VPS, along with Brave Search and a GitHub server. TypingMind connects to the gateway as a BYOK client -- any model, any device, same…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Connect Itsuki once with one key. It extracts structured memories from any of 26 connected tools — assistants, agents, workflows — links each to the words it came from, and serves them back across all the rest.

    Jul 2026 · uml.gpmai.workers.dev · its alternatives →

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    I built an MCP server that gives Claude Code long-term memory across sessions, backed by infrastructure you control. Every Claude Code session starts from zero, no memory of previous sessions. This server uses mem0ai as a library and exposes 11 MCP tools for storing, searching, and managing memories. Qdrant handles vector storage, Ollama runs embeddings locally (bge-m3), and Neo4j optionally builds a knowledge graph. Some engineering details HN might find interesting: - Zero-config auth: auto-reads Claude Code's OAT token from ~/.claude/.credentials.json, detects token type (OAT vs…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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