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24 alternatives to refinery

Treating training data as if it was source code

Refinery is a data management platform designed for machine learning teams that treats training data like source code. It offers weak supervision, neural search, and data quality monitoring through an IDE-style… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. refinery launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    https://www.openquery.io/refinery We are Christos, Damien and Nodar, founders of OpenQuery. We are building Refinery, an Open Source deployment written in Rust to automate the process of anonymizing sensitive data and governing how different consumers access that data using our 'policy-as-code' framework (It's based on Hashicorp's HCL). We noticed that companies have been solving the same problem over and over in different ways. The problem boils down to giving a data-consumer (this could be an analyst, a BI tool, an ML workflow, a different company etc. ) access to a…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Mage▲595

    The fastest way to build and use AI

    2022 · mage.ai · its alternatives →

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    The data scientist's open-source choice to scale, assess and maintain natural language data. Treat training data like a software artifact. - code-kern-ai/refinery

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Improve your copy anywhere, instantly

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Refiner▲321

    Refiner is customer feedback software for SaaS and digital product teams. Collect targeted in-app and mobile survey feedback, analyze responses, and act on insights.

    2020 · refiner.io · its alternatives →

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    Weave▲237

    Hey HN, We’re building Weave: an ML-powered tool to measure engineering output, that actually understands engineering output! Why? Here’s the thing: almost every eng leader already measures output - either openly or behind closed doors. But they rely on metrics like lines of code (correlation with effort: ~0.3), number of PRs, or story points (slightly better at ~0.35). These metrics are, frankly, terrible proxies for productivity. We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact directly, with a far better 0.94 correlation. The result? A standardized engineering output…

    2025 · app.workweave.ai · its alternatives →

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    Capalyze▲809

    ChatGPT for datavores: scrape → ask → visualize

    2025 · capalyze.ai · its alternatives →

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    Render▲318

    Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

    2019 · render.com · its alternatives →

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    Slab▲747

    Modern knowledge base & wiki for teams

    2018 · slab.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10PN

    We've been hard at work for a few weeks and thought it's time for another update. In case you missed our first post, PostgresML is an end-to-end machine learning solution, running alongside your favorite database. This time we have more of a suite offering: project management, visibility into the datasets and the deployment pipeline decision making. Let us know what you think! Demo link is on the page, and also here: https://demo.postgresml.org

    2022 · postgresml.org · its alternatives →

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    ålenkå files. Full list of files for ålenkå

    2012 · sourceforge.net · its alternatives →

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    Turn websites into LLM-ready data.

    2024 · datafuel.dev · its alternatives →

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    Build AI models and get predictions, no code required

    2023 · mentana.ai · its alternatives →

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    CRUDERRA▲130

    Platform for AI-powered docs & architecture as code

    2023 · cruderra.com · its alternatives →

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    Skills with 210k GitHub Data & Translate/Refine &Benchmark

    Mar 2026 · skills-refiner.com · its alternatives →

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    Refinery▲222

    The power of serverless made easy via a drag-and-drop editor

    2019 · refinery.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We're Luke and Phillip, and we're building Spice.ai OSS - a lightweight, portable runtime, built in Rust and powered by Apache DataFusion to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data tables sourced from any database, data warehouse or data lake. Phillip and I first introduced Spice on Show HN in September 2021. Since then, we’ve been schooled and humbled in every way building 100TB+ data and ML systems for the https://spice.ai cloud platform. Along with our customers, we struggled with getting fast, low-latency, high-concurrency SQL query within a budget, accessing and…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fully integrated analytics from Supabase. Free to use.

    2025 · dreambase.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source data labelling platform for AI model tuning

    2023 · labelstud.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m a chemical engineer and I manage logistics at a refinery down in Texas. Whenever I try to explain downstream operations to people outside the industry (including my kids), I usually get blank stares. I wanted to build something that visualizes the concepts and chemistry of a plant without completely dumbing down the science, so I put together this 5-minute browser game. Here's a simple runthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-moBz6upU. I pushed to get through a full product pathway to show the V-804 replay. I am not a software developer by trade, so I relied…

    Mar 2026 · fuelingcuriosity.com · its alternatives →

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    Build the semantic layer that makes AI analytics trustworthy

    Mar 2026 · metabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we want to share HelixDB (https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/), a project a college friend and I are working on. It’s a new database that natively intertwines graph and vector types, without sacrificing performance. It’s written in Rust and our initial focus is on supporting RAG. Here’s a video runthrough: https://screen.studio/share/szgQu3yq. Why a hybrid? Vector databases are useful for similarity queries, while graph databases are useful for relationship queries. Each stores data in a way that’s best for its main type of query (e.g.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Weld▲143

    Manage all of your data operations in one platform

    2022 · weld.app · its alternatives →

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    Finyuus▲81

    A code-first language for durable, governed AI workflows

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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