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24 alternatives to N

A cli tool that notifies when programs executions complete

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. N launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1AY
  2. 2
    Mac CLi▲226

    OS X command line tools for developers

    2016 · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    GitHub’s official free and open source command line tool

    2020 · its alternatives →

  4. 4KG

    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5SS
  6. 6

    An easy way to open programming projects, from the CLI!

    2021 · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    A CLI tool to be notified when a process is done

    2018 · its alternatives →

  8. 8
    m-cli▲153

    Swiss command line army knife for Mac OS X

    2016 · its alternatives →

  9. 9AS
  10. 10
    DEV CLI▲132

    Access dev.to right from your terminal

    2019 · its alternatives →

  11. 11
    Binocs▲67

    The uptime monitoring tool for the web in your CLI

    2022 · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    CLI tool for developers, helps you accomplish tasks faster

    2023 · its alternatives →

  13. 13RC
  14. 14

    Notifications for your terminal.

    2020 · its alternatives →

  15. 15RA

    Hi HN — I’m learning Rust and decided to build a universal CLI for running code in many languages. The tool, Run, aims to be a single, minimal dependency utility for: running one-off snippets (from CLI flags), running files, reading and executing piped stdin, and providing language-specific REPLs that you can switch between interactively. I designed it to support both interpreted languages (Python, JS, Ruby, etc.) and compiled languages (Rust, Go, C/C++). It detects languages from flags or file extensions, can compile temporary files for compiled languages, and exposes a unified REPL…

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16PT

    A bit about me: Originally, I'm an iOS developer, but over time, I became interested in CLI and DevEx, which ultimately led to the creation of my first CLI utility in Swift. Project creation story: I enjoy interactive and functional command-line interfaces with good UX, which often includes beautifully displaying the progress of ongoing operations. I wanted the ability to show a nice progress status for any command or script, but at the time, I couldn't find any solutions that suited my needs. Most community offerings are good libraries for specific programming languages. So, I decided this…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    Yell▲11

    Don't wait for software execution. Focus on what matters!

    2025 · danielhgimenez.github.io · its alternatives →

  18. 18AC
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    Keep▲108

    Alerting, by developers, for developers

    2023 · its alternatives →

  20. 20UR

    Hey HN, I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for, - Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode) - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512 - Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random - Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff - Development Tools: calc, json…

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21LC
  22. 22AC
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    cli-typer▲100

    Practice touch typing in the command line

    2018 · its alternatives →

  24. 24TC

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