Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Planetbase

Establish an outpost on a remote planet.

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

1. 1
   Outpost▲390

   Ask experts anything, get a guaranteed response

   2025 · outpost.chat · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Galaxy Alliance▲56

   Find another habitable planet and rebuild your nation

   2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Remotebase▲744

   Build remote engineering teams in 24 hours

   2022 · remotebase.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Starbound▲67

   An extraterrestrial sandbox adventure game

   2015 · playstarbound.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   RemoteBase▲316

   Find the best remote companies & jobs.

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Planetary Annihilation: Titans▲66

   An expansion for PA that adds new planets and new units.

   2015 · planetaryannihilation.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations▲67

   Hey HN, we're launching Outpost, an open-source, self-hostable component designed to handle outbound event delivery for SaaS/API platforms. If you're building a platform, you eventually need to send events to your users (think payment success, resource updates, workflow changes). Implementing this reliably—handling retries, monitoring, scaling, providing a decent dev experience for consumers, and managing tenants—becomes a significant, recurring engineering task that distracts from core product development. We built Outpost to offload that complexity. Outpost delivers events via…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Astroneer▲98

   A game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration

   2015 · astroneer.space · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Linum▲62

   Land Nodes on the Landing Points

   2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    MegaSphere▲80

    A sci-fi themed action platformer with a big shiny gun

    2015 · antonkudin.me · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Fleetbase (Alpha)▲90

    The open source OnFleet alternative

    2023 · fleetbase.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    PlanetScale Beta▲271

    The last database you'll ever need. Go from idea to IPO.

    2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    CloudPeeps▲166

    The marketplace for remote community managers

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Realm▲168

    Realm, Mobile-first database. Build fast apps, faster.

    2014 · mongodb.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Fig▲105

    A curated platform for funding and developing games

    2015 · fig.co · its alternatives →

16. 16
    PlanetScale Portals▲93

    Replicate your production database across the globe

    2022 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Mars Colonies▲67

    A free old-school RTS... on Mars

    2015 · newgrounds.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Metabase Cloud▲237

    Fast, easy open source dashboards for everyone

    2020 · metabase.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Planetarium▲61

    An 8-bit planet generator

    2015 · managore.itch.io · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Base Deploy▲101

    Build powerful apps faster - without coding

    2016 · basedeploy.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Out There▲91

    A simple, atmospheric FTL-like space survival game

    2015 · outtheregame.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Run an Empire▲64

    The Real-World Territory Control Game

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Fleetbase Storefront▲91

    Open source on-demand delivery app

    2021 · fleetbase.io · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Vanar.io▲70

    Agar.io goes interstellar!

    2015 · vanar.io · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →