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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.
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2021 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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- 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 →
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2019 · nudge.sh · its alternatives →
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A CLI tool to be notified when a process is done
2018 · its alternatives →
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- 9AS
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 13RC
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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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 →
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Yell▲11Don't wait for software execution. Focus on what matters!
2025 · danielhgimenez.github.io · its alternatives →
- 18AC
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
- 21LC
2024 · tushynski.me · its alternatives →
- 22AC
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 24TC
2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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