Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to PHP Dune
Standalone, serverless PHP sandbox
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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A terminal renderer written in pure PHP. Contribute to soloterm/screen development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I want to share my side project with you. It's called Bud and it's a full-stack web framework for Go. I created a short video to show you how to create a minimal Hacker News clone with Bud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoypcRqn-xA. The framework is free, open source and MIT Licensed. You can find it on Github: https://github.com/livebud/bud. I started working on Bud 2 years ago after watching the introductory Laracast videos about the Laravel web framework. I was just blown away by how productive you can be in Laravel. However, like many of you,…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Drop: a rootless Linux sandbox for developers. It isolates coding agents and third-party packages while preserving your work environment.
Sep 2026 · droprun.sh · its alternatives →
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Online PHP sandbox to test PHP code with MySQL
Aug 2026 · phphub.net · its alternatives →
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Online Code sandbox for PHP with Composer packages support.
2020 · phpsandbox.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've found my SQL knowledge to be lacking, so I made a project that uses SQLite as a backend. As it is intended for self-hosting I aim to make it easy to set up and maintain. Getting it up & running takes no more than a few commands (bar setting up a proxy such as nginx, which is out of scope). I've set up a "demo" site at https://forum.agreper.com/ if you want to try out the UI.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ServBay▲399Hello HN, I’m one of the creators of ServBay. I built this because I got tired of the cognitive load required just to start coding. On my Mac, it was a fragile mix of Homebrew services and asdf conflicts. On Windows, managing PATH variables and fighting with Docker Desktop's resource usage was equally frustrating. I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed to support modern stacks (Go, Rust, Node, etc.). What it is: ServBay is a native local development environment for both macOS and Windows. It is not a wrapper around Docker or VMs. It bundles everything you need into…
2024 · servbay.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · engineering.versal.com · its alternatives →
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Sandbox demo site per visitor on WP without external service
2024 · wordpress.org · its alternatives →
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Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…
2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →
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A self-contained full-text search engine in pure PHP. No extensions, no dependencies. - olivier-ls/php-fts
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc... - GitHub - dzove855/Bash-web-server: A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PHPRunner▲103Professional web apps with little or no coding
2022 · xlinesoft.com · its alternatives →
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A tiny "sandbox" to run untrusted code 🏖️. Contribute to craigmulligan/sandy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow. I didn't expect it to blow up, so it wasn't 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly. Happy to know what you think and talk about it.
May 2026 · ghost.charity · its alternatives →
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💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it. - GitHub - BrowserBox/BrowserBox: 💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! I put together a Rust compiler written in PHP. It takes Rust source code and outputs x86-64 Linux binaries directly. No LLVM, no assembler, no linker. It has a working ownership checker, borrow checker, type checker, structs, functions, control flow, and mutable references. The test suite has 80+ cases. The whole thing is around 2,500 lines of PHP.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RunCloud▲9Hassle-free PHP web application & server management panel
2016 · runcloud.io · its alternatives →
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Unleash the Power of PHP and SQL with PHPize.online
2023 · phpize.online · its alternatives →
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