Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Nitrous – Cloud-Based Web Dev IDE in a Chrome App launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Nitrous.io▲112

   Lightning fast cloud development environments

   2014 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Proof▲62

   Lightweight design collaboration in the cloud

   2014 · goproof.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   NW.js▲77

   A new way of writing desktop apps with Web technologies

   2015 · nwjs.io · its alternatives →

4. 4AB
   Alloy – Boilerplate for building web applications with Go▲7

   2017 · growthmetrics.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   NimbusFoundry▲59

   Framework for building front-end collaborative apps

   2014 · nimbusfoundry.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Insight▲11

   IDE-like code search and navigation, on the cloud

   2017 · elastic.co · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Building Progressive Web Apps▲4

   Bringing the Power of Native to the Browser

   2018 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Sonar▲14

   A linting tool for the web

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9NS
   Not Some Cats – A collection of tools for web devs/designers▲6

   2018 · notsomecats.com · its alternatives →

10. 10SL
    ServerSlide - Lua Cloud Application Platform▲8

    2011 · serverslide.com · its alternatives →

11. 11IH
    Introducing Hyperapp 1.0 – 1KB JavaScript library for building web apps▲6

    2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

12. 12TT
    Turn the Web into an API – A case study▲8

    2016 · blog.extracty.com · its alternatives →

13. 13WA
    Whistle, a different way to build interactive web apps in Elixir▲7

    2018 · moboudra.com · its alternatives →

14. 14BC
    Bailiff – Codecademy of Web App Security▲9

    2015 · bailiff.io · its alternatives →

15. 15
    nickel.rs▲5

    Web framework for Mozilla's expressive programming language

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16PW
    Progressive Web App “An Easy Programming Language”▲5

    2018 · easyprog.app · its alternatives →

17. 17
    WP IDE▲14

    WordPress development in the cloud

    2015 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Razorframe▲5

    a Node.js library for kickstarting real-time apps at scale

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Flowstate – A Kind of Copilot for Web App▲5

    2024 · flowstate.so · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Monkberry▲6

    A JavaScript library for building web user interfaces

    2016 · monkberry.js.org · its alternatives →

21. 21DA
    Daintree, an open source AWS webconsole▲7

    2020 · daintree.app · its alternatives →

22. 22SW
    SaaS webframework▲7

    2018 · innomatic.io · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Windsock.js – A flux inspired library for building web applications▲6

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Echo▲7

    A fast and unfancy micro web framework for Go

    2016 · labstack.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →