Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

ProgrammerHumor.io is a humor website that was migrated from WordPress to Elixir and Phoenix LiveView. The rebuild delivers seven times faster performance with reduced server load and improved stability. The site uses… 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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   WordPress 7.0▲255

   Hey folks, I would like to show you a new WordPress plugin and ask you for your opinion. The plugin allows you to find large files in your WordPress installation. This is useful, for example, when hard disk space is running low or backups are becoming too large or taking too long. If you like it, I am happy to get a rating on wordpress.org. I am thankful for any review / comment! Thanks, Marcel

   May 2026 · wordpress.org · its alternatives →

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   LiveViewJS – TypeScript back end for LiveView Apps (Phoenix LiveView)▲146

   Author here. I really love the programming paradigm behind by Phoenix LiveView applications and wanted to expand the ecosystem to include programmers like myself that love Typescript. In summary, LiveViewJS reuses all the Phoenix client code and implemented a new backend in Typescript to handle client events and send back updates. Lots more detail and examples in the repo. Would love any questions and/or feedback. Thanks!

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Bloom – A shadcn like UI library for Elixir and Phoenix▲189

   I've been writing Elixir for 5 years and made plenty of sites with Phoenix and LiveView but my biggest gripe has always been with the lack of quality UI components available. The JS ecosystem has so many, and it's the one thing I miss from being primarily a React & Node developer. So this is my attempt at bringing some pretty and useful components most applications need to Phoenix projects to try and fill in the gaps between what makes LiveView such a productive joy to work with. The library is very very raw and requires some initial clean up so PRs are very welcome to tidy up the DX as well…

   2024 · bloom-ui.fly.dev · its alternatives →

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   Zencoder ▲766

   Hi HN, I’m Andrew, Founder of Zencoder. While building our IDE extensions and cloud agents, we ran into the same issue many of you likely face when using coding agents in complex repos: agents getting stuck in loops, apologizing, and wasting time. We tried to manage this with scripts, but juggling terminal windows and copy-paste prompting was painful. So we built Zenflow, a free desktop tool to orchestrate AI coding workflows. It handles the things we were missing in standard chat interfaces: Cross-Model Verification: You can have Codex review Claude’s code, or run them in parallel to see…

   2025 · zencoder.ai · its alternatives →

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   Elementor▲410

   Advanced drag & drop live page builder for WordPress.

   2016 · trk.elementor.com · its alternatives →

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   10Web platform for WordPress▲306

   Managed WordPress Hosting powered by Google Cloud

   2019 · 10web.io · its alternatives →

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   Elementor Cloud Beta▲107

   Fastest way to create WordPress sites, now in the Cloud.

   2020 · trk.elementor.com · its alternatives →

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   IsMyAIDown – AI status monitor with Phoenix LiveView. Can you crash it?▲10

   I recently built IsMyAIDown.com to challenge some assumptions about modern web development. Instead of reaching for React like everyone else seems to be doing these days, I wanted to see if I could build a distributed, scalable, real-time, single-page app using server-side tech with Phoenix and LiveView. The core idea was simple enough - monitor major AI providers and show their status across different geographic regions. But the primary goal was to better understand what was possible without the complexity of modern frontend frameworks. I ended up deploying across three Fly.io regions and…

   2024 · ismyaidown.com · its alternatives →

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   An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today▲192

   Get a look at QuickWP, our AI-powered WordPress site builder. Here's the story of how it uses OpenAI and FSE to create a personalized site.

   2024 · themeisle.com · its alternatives →

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    Live – A net/http compatible Phoenix LiveView implementation in Go▲32

    Live views and components for golang. Contribute to jfyne/live development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Static blog companion built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView▲15

    I built this after wanting to add comments to my own blog and not finding any good options. Discovering high-quality posts on small personal sites is one of my favorite things about HN.

    2024 · blogmate.io · its alternatives →

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    Live AI Design Benchmark▲81

    Hey HN, We built a different kind of AI benchmark for UI generation. Instead of static leaderboards or curated screenshots, you can watch multiple models generate the same design live, side-by-side, and decide which output is actually better. Under the hood, we call AI models from Anthropic (Opus), OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), and Moonshot AI (Kimi). Each model generates a real, editable project using Tailwind CSS (not screenshots or canvas exports). You can export it for Next.js, Laravel (Blade), Symfony (Twig), WordPress, or plain HTML. What we noticed building this: * Popular benchmarks…

    Feb 2026 · shuffle.dev · its alternatives →

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    LiveTyper, a simple typing speed tester▲28

    Phoenix/LiveView using Presence to show the other players online. My 2nd thing in a vague quest to make 12 things in 12 months.

    2022 · livetyper.com · its alternatives →

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    A PoC generative UI in Elixir Phoenix LiveView in <60 loc▲8

    @nileshtrivedi Yep. It's possible. #myelixirstatus Super quick and dirty but it works: https://t.co/yNZLhnxJcF

    2024 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    Livebook, code notebooks in Elixir (Phoenix LiveView)▲10

    Automate code & data workflows with interactive Elixir notebooks - livebook-dev/livebook

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LightLayer▲94

    Hey HN. We're Mus and Isaac - creators of LightLayer. We've been outputting a ton more code since using agentic dev tools. It's been great. But we're starting to see a new bottleneck emerge that's no longer writing the actual code: reviewing code. We’d love to hear from folks here if they’re feeling the inertia of code reviews a lot more these days with the surge in development velocity. For us, it was the reason we decided to pivot what we were working on before, and go full-time on building a workspace aimed at bringing the code review experience up to speed for the AI era. To be clear:…

    2025 · lightlayer.dev · its alternatives →

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    Zilly▲80

    A smart bot for WordPress resources

    2016 · wpshout.com · its alternatives →

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    WPCursor▲91

    Build complete WordPress sites through AI conversation

    Mar 2026 · wpos.ai · its alternatives →

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    cursor party▲79

    Hi HN, I challenged myself to build a multiplayer game in just 1 hour. My goal was to experience the distributed processing capabilities of Elixir and Phoenix LiveView firsthand by creating a simple web app. It allows everyone to see each other's cursors in real-time and fight a boss together. This is currently a beta version, and I plan to ship new features every week. It's deployed on Koyeb. I'd love to hear your feedback on the performance!

    May 2026 · cursorparty.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Hacker Live – real-time Hacker News client built using Phoenix LiveView▲22

    Hacker Live is a client for Hacker News that provides live updates to lists and comments. I’ve built this to get into Elixir &#x2F; Phoenix &#x2F; LiveView development. The UI follows HN look and feel for the most part, with a few opinionated tweaks and additions: - Sticky comment summaries to help keep track of the discussion context in nested comment threads - Subtitles on list entries and summaries on story pages generated by an LLM to help you decide whether a given article is worth your time - List entries link to the discussion page by default - Surfacing of links in comments to…

    2023 · hackerlive.net · its alternatives →

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    A Free Introduction to Elixir, OTP, Ecto, and Phoenix▲16

    2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    FastPhoenix▲10

    The ultimate Saas boilerplate for the phoenix framework

    2025 · fastphoenix.pro · its alternatives →

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    Top 10 Newest HackerNews Stories (Phoenix/LiveView)▲5

    HNLive is a small Elixir&#x2F;Phoenix&#x2F;LiveView web app showing the top 10 (by score or number of comments) newest HackerNews stories in "real time" (i.e. as quickly as updates become available via the HackerNews API). You should find the app running on https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hntop10.gigalixirapp.com - please note that this is running on the free tier with limited memory and resources. GitHub: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gstipi&#x2F;hnlive The motivation for building HNLive was twofold: 1. I had read and heard many good things about Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView, and after watching Chris…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Phoenix OSS – Applying LLM Spans, Traces, and Evals for AI Insights▲23

    We are the developers of Phoenix, which we released in April of this year with a goal of bringing LLM observability to the notebook. In the time since, the growth of LLM frameworks and complex agent workflows led us to add support for LLM spans and traces and introduce a simple Eval harness for testing the data from those spans. The latest Traces & Spans release of Phoenix offers: -Out of the box tracing for LlamaIndex and LangChain -Fully local execution, no data sent anywhere, outside of your own LLM calls -Ability to get a common dataframe format across frameworks back to a notebook for…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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