Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Mycelial is an ETL solution built in Rust that moves data directly between databases, file directories, and spreadsheets without routing through cloud services. Users install a Mycelial daemon on their infrastructure… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Mycelial – Point to Point Cloudless ETL (100% in Rust) launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Mycel▲338

   Bring one past deliverable. Mycel drafts every future one.

   Sep 2026 · mycelai.dev · its alternatives →

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   Clay▲792

   Create spreadsheets that fill themselves, without code

   2022 · clay.com · its alternatives →

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   Baserow▲341

   Baserow 2.0 introduces workflow automations, the Kuma AI assistant, date dependencies, smarter AI fields, workspace search, and improved security with 2FA.

   2022 · baserow.io · its alternatives →

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   panda{·}etl▲680

   Automate your document workflows

   2024 · panda-etl.ai · its alternatives →

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   I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust▲597

   A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…

   2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →

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   Railway▲405

   Hacked together a service in Go https://github.com/xlab/cdn-s3-go that routes content request to any arbitrary S3-compatible bucket. Some infra providers are offering free egress, but buckets are only private (hello Railway), and not geo-distributed. An L4 balancer will cost a fortune (hello Cloudflare). cdn-s3-go solves this by looking up objects, generating a pre-signed URLs and redirecting the clients directly. Free egress, cheap public geo-distributed CDN!

   2021 · railway.com · its alternatives →

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   Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud▲252

   Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud - KonstantinSchubert/zero

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Mycelium▲40

   Typed Formats for Storing & Transferring Data & Code - mycweb/mycelium

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform▲188

   Hi HN! I’m Eoin, founder of Sourcetable (https://sourcetable.com). Sourcetable is an AI-native spreadsheet that syncs with all your data. Users pair with an AI copilot that helps them do their spreadsheet work, as well as more database-centric analysis and SQL. Soucetable syncs with databases including Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB, and over 100+ business applications including Stripe, Zendesk, Hubspot, Quickbooks and Google Analytics. That data is available in a spreadsheet, and any models you build automatically update in near-real-time as new data flows in. The core primitives…

   2024 · its alternatives →

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    Embedding Atlas▲150

    Hey HN, we're happy to release Mycelium, a JavaScript library for creating graph visualizations of machine learning models or any other directed acyclic graphs. Mycelium powers the graph viewer of the Talaria [0] a research model visualization and optimization system, which was used to optimize the efficiency of Apple Foundation Models [1]. Everything works entirely on the client-side in the browser — we provide a rudimentary ONNX loader out of the box, which you can try by dragging model files into our website. It is also simple to define loaders for your own model formats. The library was…

    2025 · apple.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Nebbl▲347

    Revolutionize storage: own your Cloud and save big

    2024 · nebbl.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source, self-hosted data management app and internal tool builder▲82

    Hey HN, This is Adrian and David, and we're excited (and nervous) to show you basetool (https://basetool.io). Basetool helps companies view and manage all their data in one place. Companies have data in tons of places like BI tools, data warehouses, 3rd party services, and their databases. However, because the tools are not connected, it's a hassle to have visibility across the whole organization and even more difficult to safely share that data with the team or external collaborators. The vision is to give basetool access to your data source and get a tool that way above a…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    ByteNite▲206

    Hi HN, I’m one of the creators of ByteNite (https://bytenite.com). We built it for developers running compute-heavy containerized workloads (AI, ETL, batch jobs) who are frustrated with the limitations of traditional serverless platforms: timeouts, cold starts, orchestration complexity, and limited runtime control. ByteNite is a serverless platform that lets you submit distributed jobs packaged as Docker containers. You define simple or complex fan-out/fan-in logic, set your hardware requirements, and we handle the rest—distributing execution across warm cloud runners (CPUs,…

    2025 · docs.bytenite.com · its alternatives →

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    Movestax▲277

    The serverless cloud platform for modern builders

    2025 · app.movestax.com · its alternatives →

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    We built the fastest spreadsheet▲274

    Row Zero is the best spreadsheet for big data. Build secure spreadsheets connected to your data warehouse with a bigger, faster Excel alternative in the cloud.

    2024 · rowzero.io · 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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    Outerbase▲298

    The interface for your database

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A Database Written in Golang▲277

    Recently created a minimal persistent relational database in Go. Main focus was on implementing & understanding working the of database, storage management & transaction handling. Use of B+ Tree for storage engine(support for indexing), managing a Free List (for reusing nodes), Support for transactions, Concurrent Reads. Still have many things to add & fix like query processing being one of the main & fixing some bugs Repo link - https://github.com/Sahilb315/AtomixDB Would love to hear your thoughts

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3▲185

    I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings▲126

    While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Godb is a simple Go ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server▲205

    A Go SQL query builder and struct mapper. Contribute to samonzeweb/godb development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mycelis▲69

    Serverless AI workspace with smart routing & MCP agents

    May 2026 · mycelis.ai · its alternatives →

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    Basedash for Excel▲138

    Turn any Excel file into a live dashboard

    Jun 2026 · basedash.com · its alternatives →

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    Seveum▲129

    File transfer with no cloud storage, no account, no limits

    2025 · altersend.com · its alternatives →

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