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24 alternatives to Open Lung - Open Source Ventilator

An open-source collaborative ventilator project. 🚑

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

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    A low-cost & open source field emergency ventilator.

    2020 · worldwideventilator.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (https://www.pi-a.io) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU. My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were…

    2023 · lungy.app · its alternatives →

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    Open source ventilator for the developing world

    2020 · respira.works · its alternatives →

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    Find hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, medicine and food

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Free Open Source COVID-19 crisis management app

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Open study of disease detection, progression, and recovery

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free development help for businesses fighting COVID-19

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Crowdsourced verified Covid resources in India

    2021 · covid.help · its alternatives →

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    Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers

    2020 · helpwithcovid.com · its alternatives →

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    Access data on the Coronavirus through an easy API for free.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Open-source Covid initiatives: apps, hardware data & teams

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Fight against COVID-19 with your DNA data

    2020 · genomelink.io · its alternatives →

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    A directory of discounts on popular SaaS companies

    2020 · saasforcovid.com · its alternatives →

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    A non-profit group of entrepreneurs to fight against COVID19

    2020 · operationmasks.org · its alternatives →

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    Freelancers, apply for all your COVID19-related aid.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    CoronaWhy▲139

    Globally distributed, fully remote COVID-19 AI task-force

    2020 · coronawhy.org · its alternatives →

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    Lungy▲162

    Spatial computing app for stress & relaxation

    2024 · lungy.app · its alternatives →

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    Airboxlab▲108

    Open source air quality monitor you can build yourself

    2015 · airboxlab.foobot.io · its alternatives →

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    An army of the young and the low-risk helping people in need

    2020 · immunecorps.com · its alternatives →

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    Connect with developers to get help for COVID-19 projects

    2020 · codementor.io · its alternatives →

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    Visualized maps to help identify hotspots of COVID-19

    2020 · outbreaksnearme.org · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pia (https://www.piahealth.co) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an iOS app that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It’s been two years since Lungy launched (here’s the original ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534615) and it's had a huge update and complete redesign. We rebuilt the whole app, and added a real-time 3D soft body solver which gives some really cool interactions like blobs /…

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time resource library for small business owners.

    2020 · honeybook.com · its alternatives →

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