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24 alternatives to Plane – spawn and connect to a remote process from your web app

A distributed system for running WebSocket services at scale. - jamsocket/plane

Plane is a tool for web applications that allows developers to spawn and connect to remote processes. It enables communication between web apps and external processes, making it useful for scenarios where applications… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Plane – spawn and connect to a remote process from your web app launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Airplane▲488

    Quickly transform scripts, SQL, and more into internal tools

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Figma for DevOps

    2022 · fiberplane.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3DA

    Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

    2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4AU

    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 →

  5. 5AW

    Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    An demo app for lattice-core. Contribute to jasonl99/card_game development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Today we have released our new Slack Home feature which acts as the Control Plane for easily bringing your DevOps workflows to your entire team via Slack.

    2020 · cto.ai · its alternatives →

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    Jam▲461

    Collaboratively work on your website right from the page.

    2020 · jam.dev · its alternatives →

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    ToolJet helps you build enterprise apps, AI agents and workflows in minutes, not months. Create secure internal apps that are enterprise ready and SOC2, GDPR and ISO compliant.

    2024 · tooljet.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, TL;DR: Collaborative notebooks for debugging your infrastructure I’m mies, founder, and CEO of Fiberplane, and I’m excited to show you what we’ve built; a real-time collaboration tool for SRE and DevOps engineers. As of today, Fiberplane is in public beta. Before Fiberplane, you’d need to cobble together information from teammates and alert tools like PagerDuty in Slack, switch to dashboard Nr. X to look at the data, screenshot it, switch back to Slack, paste, and then rinse and repeat, all while critical services were down. Then you’d do this dance all over again but now pasting…

    2022 · fiberplane.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Vamsi, the founder of Plane(A simple, extensible, open source project and product management tool). Today, I’m here to share our journey with you all. It all started when we identified some of the most frustrating elements for teams when managing projects, especially with tools that force users to learn complex frameworks. We wanted to create something that was intuitive and easy to use. That's how Plane was born! We first open-sourced Plane back in November 2022, and the response was great. But it wasn't until we announced Plane on Reddit in April that we saw an incredible surge…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Traw▲283

    Replayable whiteboard for remote teams

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Easily build real-time apps that enables user collaboration

    2022 · multiplayer.dev · its alternatives →

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    Join this audio room

    2021 · jam.systems · its alternatives →

  15. 15SO

    Hey HN! We're Marko and Darko, building SuperPlane with a small team. SuperPlane is an open source DevOps control plane for running event-driven workflows. It works across the tools teams already use like Git, CI/CD, incident response, observability, infra, notifications, etc. You can think of SuperPlane as 'n8n/Zapier for DevOps'. How do we do DevOps today? For many teams it's a mix of brittle scripts, one-off CI jobs, bespoke GitOps, and manual approvals scattered across channels. Pipelines are often the only workflow engine available, but they’re not a great fit when a workflow…

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Jamm▲255

    Video chat for remote teams

    2020 · ringcentral.com · its alternatives →

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    Jamhub▲88

    An open-source, remote music collaboration app

    2020 · jamhub.io · its alternatives →

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    Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Contribute to coder/websocket development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Excited to share the project I've been working on for the past 7 months! We've seen nearly weekly attacks against the open source software supply chain. I saw the seeds of this trend start in the mid 2015s as an open source maintainer and I've watched it only get worse over the years. I finally decided to try to solve this problem. Socket is taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities. Unlike other scanning tools, Socket actually analyzes the…

    2022 · socket.dev · its alternatives →

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    Swingby▲87

    Spontaneous video conversation for remote teams

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we build an open-source operating system extension for orchestrating robot swarms fully decentralized. This first beta version allows you to create fully decentralized robot swarms. The system will set up a wireless mesh network and run a p2p networking stack on top of it, such that nodes can interact with each other through various abstractions using our SDKs (Rust, Python, TypeScript) or a CLI. We hope this is a step toward better inter-robot communication (and a fun project if you have a few Raspberry Pis lying around). Our mesh network is created by B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv and we’ve…

    2025 · docs.p2p.industries · its alternatives →

  22. 22RO

    GitHub: https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/ === Firstly, a big thanks to the HN community for showing us love and support in our previous HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756). At that point, we had just open-sourced the repo and were not fully prepared for a Show HN. We wanted to share updates since then and also do our official Show HN. Updates since Sept 2019 1. Changed the name from Rudder to RudderStack :) 2. API compatibility with Segment 3. Open-source control plane so no dependency on the hosted control plane for…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Let's be honest. Your AI agents could be better.

    2025 · sailhouse.dev · its alternatives →

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    Low-code custom workflow automation tool

    2021 · viasocket.com · its alternatives →

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