Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PipeUp, Unix Pipe to the Web launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1SP
   Seashells – Pipe output from CLI apps to the web in real time▲356

   2017 · seashells.io · its alternatives →

2. 2AU
   A Unixy approach to WebSockets▲421

   websocketd is a single binary that wraps a command-line program and serves it over a WebSocket. Your program reads lines from stdin and writes lines to stdout.

   2015 · websocketd.com · its alternatives →

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   WebPipe – Pipe from your servers to the browser▲6

   2020 · webpipe.hyperngn.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor▲280

   Get and manipulate data with a visual programming interface.

   2017 · pipes.digital · its alternatives →

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   Pipey▲214

   The next big thing in web assistance from HBO Silicon Valley

   2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Pipet – CLI tool for scraping and extracting data online, with pipes▲49

   I often find myself in situations where I need to extract some data from a website, either as one time thing or periodically (and then watch for changes). Maybe I'm tracking stocks, or a delivery, or I want to know when tickets become available to the local sauna; maybe a friend called and asked "can you get me all data from that website into a spreadsheet?" (this happens surprisingly often) I used to write one-off scripts for that, often with Python or JavaScript, but I noticed I spend about one minute getting the right CSS selectors, and then another 10 minutes setting the rest of the…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   HTTP Prompt▲128

   An interactive command-line HTTP client

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   cmd.to▲97

   A command line interface for the web

   2015 · cmd.to · its alternatives →

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   Pipecat – Connect message queues with Unix pipes▲48

   Connect UNIX pipes and message queues. Contribute to lukasmartinelli/pipecat development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pipe To Me – Stream data over HTTP using curl▲39

    Stream data over http using curl. Contribute to jpschroeder/pipe-to-me development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    KeyBox▲70

    A web-based SSH console

    2014 · sshkeybox.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Shlack▲75

    Whoa, a bash shell inside Slack!

    2016 · shell.playplay.io · its alternatives →

13. 13AO
    An Online Unix Simulator▲8

    2015 · uberty.co · its alternatives →

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    Script-httpd – Turn command line scripts into web services▲24

    Turn shell commands into web services. Contribute to beefsack/webify development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Redis-pipe – Use Redis lists like Unix pipes▲49

    Treat Redis Lists like Unix Pipes. Contribute to lukasmartinelli/redis-pipe development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nutty▲60

    SSH-Terminal sharing using Browser

    2014 · nutty.io · its alternatives →

17. 17
    An SSH based utility to transfer pipes across machines – beam▲28

    Hey HN, At work, I was annoyed about having to download logs by writing them out to files and transferring them over to my local over HTTP (admittedly, this is because of a rather novel architectural situation). So, I built a tool in Go that lets you pipe contents into an SSH server for sending and reading them out on another connection. You can also use this tool to transfer files. Just cat the file on the sender end and redirect the output of the receiver end to a file. Please note that the transfer rate is heavily dependent on your connection and proximity to the public ssh.beam.camp…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Seashells▲13

    Pipe output from CLI apps to the web in real time

    2017 · seashells.io · its alternatives →

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    Fast, turnkey static web site recipe (Terraform and Jekyll and AWS)▲6

    2021 · peterkong.com · its alternatives →

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    rtail▲2

    Terminal output to the browser in seconds, using UNIX pipes.

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21CA
    Convert Any Website to Webflow▲7

    2021 · flowgenius.co · its alternatives →

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    SSH Now – a terminal into any machine▲9

    2022 · ssh-now.com · its alternatives →

23. 230S
    0pen source free decentralized file transfer website▲5

    2018 · pact.online · its alternatives →

24. 24CW
    Control webviews programmatically with the Pipeable iOS SDK▲21

    For the past few months we have been working on the PipeableSDK and today we are excited to show it to you all! What is Pipeable? Pipeable is an open-source iOS and (soon) Android SDK that allows developers to programmatically control webviews in mobile apps. Webviews are essentially in-app browsers that display web content directly within the app. If you are familiar with Puppeteer or Playwright, Pipeable serves a similar purpose but for these embedded browsers, offering granular control over web interactions. What can you use Pipeable for? You can use Pipeable to automate web interactions…

    2024 · pipeable.com · its alternatives →

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