Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Patio
Hey HN! I built Patio to make DIY more accessible and sustainable. It’s a community-powered platform where you can: Rent tools from people nearby Learn DIY through curated tutorials and guides Find or list surplus materials to save money and reduce waste Browse home improvement news in one place It’s early, but live — would love your feedback on the experience, especially around search, learning, and marketplace usability. Thanks! — Julien
Patio is a community platform for do-it-yourself enthusiasts that combines tool sharing, rentals, and sales with educational resources. Users can borrow and lend tools locally, access DIY tutorials and quizzes, and buy… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Have been working on this for months, hope you guys will like it. Feel free to share your own side project in the comments.
2012 · sideprojects.com · its alternatives →
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Sprucer▲105Create your virtual yard, explore designs, see it grow
2019 · get-sprucer.com · its alternatives →
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Add a backyard home to rent, host your family, or work from
2021 · rentthebackyard.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2]. And now, we're live with our own site! Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well. [0]…
2022 · transformyour.city · 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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I love urban planning and think the way we interact with the built environment is hugely impactful to individuals. But I also think that most people have been trained to take the built environment as a given rather than something that they have partial ownership of. By building a place to discuss their community on a hyper-local scale, I’m hoping to encourage residents to feel like they are an important piece of their city. I thought building a sort of spatial forum, where city residents can discuss the little annoyances in their neighborhoods, might help people a) start thinking about which…
2024 · littlefixes.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We're a small team in Kyoto building a website called dédédé (https://dedede.de/en) that invites people to share the various positives, negatives, oddities, etc. they find in urban spaces. The project grew out of an earlier effort where we'd built an app that assisted participatory urbanism workshops run by local nonprofits. With the new platform, we're trying to build something similar but more casual and hopefully with broader appeal, that'll be fun to use even outside of formal workshop situations. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
2025 · dedede.de · its alternatives →
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Cheat Sheets Dev▲149Community built to share popular programming snippets.
2020 · cheatsheets.dev · its alternatives →
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Instantly visualize paving patterns and calculate materials.
Aug 2026 · patioplanner.app · its alternatives →
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2019 · sideprojectbook.com · its alternatives →
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Share Work and Recreation Equipment-Build Community-Conserve
2021 · rentmyequipment.com · its alternatives →
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About a month ago, I got a 10x20 shed delivered so I could build out a shedquarters office in my backyard. It's been a ton of fun (and work) so far! I'm going to share a lot of it on this thread over the next couple of months until it's done. (Also at https://t.co/qAXSKUZdyk.)
2021 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Build your urban residential real estate collection, easily.
2020 · republic.com · its alternatives →
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Atelier App▲67Design your home sustainably with the easiest-to-use tools
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, we’ve been working on an open-source project built on top of Comfy for the last few weeks. It is still very much a work in progress, but I think it is at a place where it could start to be useful. The idea is that you can turn a workflow into a web app with an easy-to-use UI. Currently, it should work with any workflows that take images and text as input and return images. We are aiming to add video support over the next few days. Feedback and contributions are more than welcome!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · the.backyard.io · its alternatives →
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An open-source community targeted at Web3 developers
2025 · openbuild.xyz · its alternatives →
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2018 · concretecalculator.io · its alternatives →
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Share yards. Grow food. Build greener neighborhoods.
2025 · getgreen.space · its alternatives →
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