Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Pulse
Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted
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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OpenStatus▲434Hey HN! We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are [email protected] and [email protected]. Thank you!
2025 · openstatus.dev · its alternatives →
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Search Cluster Monitoring & Maintenance, Redefined
2025 · neverblink.ai · its alternatives →
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Get instant feedback from your team on Slack & MS Teams
2021 · springworks.in · its alternatives →
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Real-time interactive poll right inside your live video
2022 · livereacting.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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Feature rich, high volume notifications with deep analytics
2019 · its alternatives →
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2014 · scoutapp.github.io · its alternatives →
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Clickvote takes the hassle of building your own reaction components around your content. Showing real-time updates of likes, upvotes, and reviews between clients. Learn about your members through deep analytics. Deal with an unlimited amount of clicks per second. You can read the full article here: https://links.github20k.com/click-vote The open-source Library is here: https://github.com/clickvote/clickvote Please let me know your thoughts! Am I building something useless?
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · poll.lab.io · its alternatives →
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Just Polls▲92The simplest and affordable way to create polls in Slack
2024 · justpolls.xyz · its alternatives →
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Feedbeo ▲78Simplest Q&A and live polls tool for better engagement
2023 · feedbeo.com · its alternatives →
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Pulsewave▲93The simplest uptime monitoring for developers & teams
2019 · apps.shopify.com · its alternatives →
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Crowd-voting for elections. Turn your one vote into many
2016 · openvote.com · its alternatives →
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GDPR compliant web and mobile analytics made simple
2019 · pulsemetrics.io · its alternatives →
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2012 · markover.me · its alternatives →
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Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
2018 · sametab.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · gopollgo.com · its alternatives →
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