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24 alternatives to Open Agency Accelerator (Free Course)

How to build a seven figure agency, totally free

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open Agency Accelerator (Free Course) launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Agent 37▲401

    Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?

    Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →

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    Marketing Startup Community with Free Course

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    I made an open source directory for sharing projects Ever wondered how to show off that something you just built? Look no further! Awesome Launch is meant to be a list of communities and forums you can share your projects to get feedback or your first users. Anyone is free to contribute sites and resources. Hope you enjoy!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Grow your company with free 8-week course from top B2B SaaS

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    On mentoring, business partnerships, & more

    2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6AA

    I'm a solo dev in Taiwan. I built 4 AI agents that handle content, sales leads, security scanning, and ops for my tech agency — all on Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier (1,500 req&#x2F;day). I use ~105. Monthly LLM cost: $0. Architecture: 4 agents on OpenClaw (open source), running on WSL2 at home with 25 systemd timers. What they do every day: - Generate 8 social posts across platforms (quality-gated: generate → self-review → rewrite if score < 7&#x2F;10) - Engage with community posts and auto-reply to comments (context-aware, max 2 rounds) - Research via RSS + HN API + Jina Reader → feed…

    Mar 2026 · its alternatives →

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    TLDR: I made a community where you can find builders or product owners to collab on sideprojects together with <3 A year ago i completed my first sideproject, a digital course on how to "cold email a chief information security officer". I thought and think its a great course, but of course I fell into all the traps (didnt verify a need, i thought id make it and everyone would buy automatically), i tested google ads but hated nerding on that, so i decided to find a marketing person to partner up with! But i knew no one! That got me thinking how many people with relevant knowledge that isnt…

    2025 · relentlessly.no · its alternatives →

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    Free growth strategy email course from Silicon Valley

    2020 · growth-academy.com · its alternatives →

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    Free AI Growth Consultant Trained on Brains from 70+ Experts

    2025 · theb2bvault.com · its alternatives →

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    I used to be just a blogger. Now I build internet products, still without code, using AI, design, and taste. I was building in public on X for last 2 months. And honestly, I got tired of how it became performative and started to feel fake. I shipped 2 products. Both failed to get any real traction. I kept sneaking into popular builders’ profiles, hoping to learn how they do it. One thing I kept seeing everywhere, product launch directories. I thought here is the scope. So I started building one. Same UI like the rest. Nothing special. Suddenly one day when it was half built, I realized…

    2025 · founderswall.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11IB

    The idea: what if you could get a “Masterclass”-style experience, but free, using existing YouTube content? So I made OpenCademy — right now it only has two quick startup "courses" (101 & 102), built from curated YouTube clips, all embedded and organized into modules. It’s still early (no accounts, no backend), but it’s bingeable. Would love thoughts on whether this concept feels useful or just... redundant.

    Nov 2025 · opencademy.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I'm Luke. A few days ago, I published my e-book called "How I Made My First Sales in 14 Days." All the knowledge I put there comes from: - my own product, Pages.Report - many networking calls with much more experienced founders - analyzing indie hacker projects I would love to hear some feedback from you.

    Nov 2025 · lukcode.com · its alternatives →

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    Em dashes welcome — learn how to build AI agents

    Sep 2026 · buttercup.sh · its alternatives →

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    Create your ideal content marketing workflow!

    2019 · planable.io · its alternatives →

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    I have been working as a freelance data analyst for 9 years now, and everything is going well for me. Two years ago, I created a Discord community for data analysts and we are now 700+ members. Talking with the community made me realized how lucky I was to have a job and proper experience in data analysis because, god, it is hard right now to find a first job. So I decided to spend my free time building D8A academy. It's a roadmap of projects, which is what most people in the Discord were asking for. It helps you focus on what you really need to learn to do the day-to-day job, and helps you…

    Jul 2026 · d8a.academy · its alternatives →

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    Create, sell & discover courses — all in one learning

    2025 · freeacademycourse.com · its alternatives →

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    The free 7 day course that will make you a better marketer

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    I build a lot of small products myself and I realized how many indie founders want an exit that doesn’t involve platforms charging large commissions or requiring big revenue numbers. Sometimes a project makes $50&#x2F;month, sometimes $500, sometimes $0 but has a great codebase, and that’s enough value for someone else. So I built buy-startups.com, a very simple, privacy-friendly marketplace for buying and selling small online startups. It’s not fancy. There’s no commission, no listing fee, no hidden funnel. Just a straightforward way for indie devs and bootstrappers to list a project and…

    Nov 2025 · buy-startups.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19IM

    Hello everyone. I'm a relatively new developer and I started my first project to go full production recently. It is a directory of payment processors and payment service providers. It's free to use and gives detailed info on their pricing, business model, supported business types, available countries, prohibited businesses and high risk business support. So far only 40 have been added with more to come. And I allow processors to contact me so that they're details can be added to the database. I'll eventually automate this and add verification the months to come. I hope you'll find it useful.…

    2025 · sourcefees.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I've made a groundbreaking discovery: procrastination can lead to questionable projects! While avoiding real work, I somehow created a directory of 130+ AI agents and frameworks. It's like I tried to organize a robot party and everyone showed up. What's inside: - A list of AI agents - Frameworks to build more agents So, HN, before I spiral into an existential crisis: did I accidentally create something useful, or should I go touch grass? P.S. If this somehow becomes the next big thing, I promise to pretend it was intentional all along.

    2024 · aiagentsdirectory.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, We have been developing a platform to enable professionals to build AI assistants to help them through their work. After a few months, we realized people are trying to sell basic functionalities that can be built from scratch in a couple of hours. Due to this, individuals who are not familiar with the current SOTA are misinformed about the potential of generative models. So, we decided to open up some of our most popular templates as standalone tools for free to empower individuals and set a solid standard for what people should expect. We believe the barrier to accessing…

    2024 · join.modularmind.app · its alternatives →

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    For the last few months I have been analysing Peter Lynch’s books on stock picking and doing prompt engineering to check if AI could create useful stock analyses. To my surprise it started making reports that allow me to understand companies much faster with well cited sources. I hope you find it interesting and useful :) Perter Lynch’s books I analyzed: Learn to earn, One up on Wall Street, Beating the street

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Every launch needs a runway. Yours is free.

    May 2026 · launchfree.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I kept seeing the same question asked over and over in startup communities: "What tech stack should I use for my SaaS?" The answers were always scattered, opinionated, and never accounted for budget or team size. So I built appstackbuilder.com — you tell it your monthly budget, app type, team size, and skill level, and it recommends a full stack (auth, database, hosting, payments, analytics, etc.) with actual pricing for each tool. A few things that make it different from generic advice: - It accounts for team size when calculating costs (e.g. Clerk charges per user, Linear charges…

    Feb 2026 · appstackbuilder.com · its alternatives →

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