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▲391

   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 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Starbound▲67

   An extraterrestrial sandbox adventure game

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Planetary Annihilation: Titans▲66

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

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5OO
   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 →

6. 6
   Astroneer▲98

   A game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Ask a Dev▲288

   2018 · askadev.org · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Hookdeck Outpost▲115

   Open-source outbound webhooks for your platform

   Apr 2026 · hookdeck.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Fleetbase (Alpha)▲90

   The open source OnFleet alternative

   2023 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    CloudPeeps▲166

    The marketplace for remote community managers

    2014 · its alternatives →

11. 11TN
    Turn NPM installs into a Space Invaders style game in your terminal▲105

    2016 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Realm▲168

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

    2014 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Fig▲105

    A curated platform for funding and developing games

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Metabase Cloud▲237

    Fast, easy open source dashboards for everyone

    2020 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Base Deploy▲101

    Build powerful apps faster - without coding

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Run an Empire▲64

    The Real-World Territory Control Game

    2014 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Fleetbase Storefront▲91

    Open source on-demand delivery app

    2021 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Vanar.io▲70

    Agar.io goes interstellar!

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Space Grub▲79

    Simple and fun space shooter

    2017 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Battlestation: Harbinger▲67

    A hard sci-fi space exploration game

    2016 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    RimWorld▲72

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller.

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22SH
    Show HN We just launched forking for your Minecraft worlds▲92

    2012 · blog.minefold.com · its alternatives →

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    Fleetbase▲68

    Cloud based logistics platform

    2021 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    ~spaces~ V2▲64

    virtual universe w/ you can create worlds and meet friends

    2021 · its alternatives →

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