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24 alternatives to NYC Mesh

Community owned network that replaces your ISP.

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

  1. 1

    Free, Gigabit Wifi Hubs

    2016 · link.nyc · its alternatives →

  2. 2YN

    End-to-end encrypted IPv6 networking to connect worlds

    2019 · yggdrasil-network.github.io · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    Mesh▲119

    Slackoverflow wrapped in a social network

    2017 · its alternatives →

  4. 4AM

    I am slowly adding more locations now. This is intended to be a crowdsourced map. Everyone is welcome to add more locations and provide comments/votes here. Free people from going to a cafe for work only to leave because there's no wifi, restroom, or outlet!! Demo: https://x.com/KSeisai/status/1708273554041504028?s=20

    2023 · octobrain.one · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Create 1:1 networking events you can share with a link

    2021 · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    I've decided to open source the project I've been working on called Hyperspace. Hyperspace is a suite of software implementing a wireless mesh network for IoT devices. My main requirements are listed on my repo but I'll copy them here. 1. The mesh shall enable nodes to route packets amongst themselves. 2. The mesh shall allow nodes with limited power to participate in routing packets. 3. The mesh shall be IPv6 based. 4. The mesh shall be local. I.E. not require connection to a remote server. 5. The mesh should provide 3D location to nodes in the network. Nodes use the Decawave DW1000 UWB…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Stay connected, even at the edge of Wi-Fi

    2019 · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Create mesh networks with physical (unpowered) things

    2014 · undagrid.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Real networking in a virtual world

    2020 · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    The ultimate outdoor networking device

    2018 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    All you can surf WiFi. $50/month up to 5Mbps. No data caps.

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Mesh▲113

    Boost employee performance & culture in ways HR tools can’t

    2020 · its alternatives →

  14. 14PA

    Hey HN! localtunnel's server needs random ports per client. That doesn't work on Fly.io or behind strict firewalls. We rewrote it in TypeScript and added multiplexing over a single port. Open-source and 100% self-hostable. Public instance at *.pipenet.dev if you don't want to self-host. Built at Glama for our MCP Inspector, but it's a generic tunnel with no ties to our infra. https://github.com/punkpeye/pipenet

    Jan 2026 · pipenet.dev · its alternatives →

  15. 15NS
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    Your online venue for networking events

    2020 · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    Velop▲107

    Whole-home mesh Wi-Fi by Linksys

    2017 · linksys.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18
    SiFi▲141

    Airbnb for your Wi-fi connection

    2017 · getsifi.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19
    Name Mesh▲132

    Your awesome domain name is waiting

    2014 · namemesh.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm launching Wirewiki.com today! Wirewiki makes the internet’s hidden infrastructure browsable. I quit my job 5 years ago to scale Nslookup.io. But after reaching 600k monthly users, I hit a ceiling. I couldn't naturally expand beyond DNS because of the domain name. So I went back to the drawing board: how would I make it today? Not as a collection of tools, but as a browsable graph. I've spent hundreds of hours and commits building that. It's not even at 10% of what I want it to be, but more than enough to be useful, and (in my biased opinion) much better than what's out there. Wirewiki…

    Feb 2026 · wirewiki.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    I'm the founder at Netrinos. I built a WireGuard-based mesh VPN because remote access has always been a pain. After years of SSH tunnels, IPsec headaches, and the ssh log horror movie, I wanted something simpler: install, sign in, get work done. Netrinos creates a LAN-like overlay network across your devices. Connections are direct P2P via WireGuard, with no central server routing traffic. Each device gets a stable IP and DNS name (pc.you.netrinos.com). When direct connections fail, they fall back to a relay server that's still encrypted end-to-end. We can't see your traffic. The most…

    Dec 2025 · netrinos.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    World's 1st decentralized VPN & firewall

    2020 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Plan your WiFi and see through walls

    Apr 2026 · deconflict.app · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    High-performance sidecarless service mesh

    2024 · bxflame.com · its alternatives →

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