Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Rockhopper – Launch windows apps from bash on Windows 10
I made a thing this afternoon. If you are using windows 10 and would like to open windows apps from the ubuntu bash shell normally you can't do that. I wrote this app to (sorta) let you do that. It's a two part app, first is a dotnet core webapi C# app that runs on your windows box. Next is a shell script that you put in your path on the ubuntu shell. It's called Rockhopper (named after a species of penguin, since you are hopping form Linux to windows with this app is just seemed like the right name :) ), and you invoke it like this: rockhopper -c code -a…
Rockhopper is a two-part tool for Windows 10 that enables launching Windows applications from the Ubuntu bash shell. It consists of a .NET Core web API running on Windows and a shell script for the Ubuntu side. Users… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. Rockhopper – Launch windows apps from bash on Windows 10 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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MenubarX▲474A powerful menu bar browser. Pin websites like Native Apps.
2022 · menubarx.app · its alternatives →
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Web2Desk▲503Turn your favorite websites into a desktop app in one click
2018 · web2desk.io · its alternatives →
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Ledge is a Markdown notebook for developers and DevOps. Run a code block in place and its output streams in beneath it. Free and open source, for Mac and iPhone.
23d ago · ledge.sh · its alternatives →
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Windows 10 Credential Provider intended to simplify the process of logging directly into alternative shells to Windows Explorer. - NathanCastle/BootShellCredentialProvider
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free Windows app that opens, edits, and stores .sketch files
2018 · icons8.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · bash.rocks · its alternatives →
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Make your product addictively easy to use
2022 · amplitude.com · its alternatives →
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Eggshell▲90Simple BASH script manager for your Mac menubar
2018 · yoavanaki.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I'm Marius Hauken, an indie developer, and I'm excited to share my app: Pie Menu. It offers a fresh way to access your favorite menu bar commands and keyboard shortcuts on macOS. By simply pressing a hotkey you choose during setup, a radial menu appears around your cursor, customized to the current active application. This allows you to quickly select commands without having to remember complex shortcuts across different applications. Pie Menu comes with a library of preprogrammed commands for popular apps, but you can easily add any app on your computer. We've also created an…
2024 · pie-menu.com · its alternatives →
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Windows pod system for Linux. Contribute to kernalix7/winpodx development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Codex now runs natively on Windows with secure sandbox
Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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A copilot for your terminal. Contribute to cloudycotton/whiz development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · termipal.sh · its alternatives →
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BashBuddy▲159Write bash commands with natural language, fully local.
2025 · bashbuddy.run · its alternatives →
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I was constantly googling CLI commands so I built this small CLI tool with GPT3. You can ask for shell commands right from the CLI. You'd need to use your own API KEY for this but it's pretty simple, instructions are in the README Not perfect but not bad either.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SpinWin is an open source menu bar app to visually rotate any individual window. You can rotate / spin as many as you want one by one. I was scrolling reels when one came on where the content creator suggested "turning the phone upside down" for a portion. I was sitting at my mac, and decided to see if I could find something that did this. To my surprise, nothing exists, so I decided to build it. Turns out macOS doesn't provide any public API to do anything like this, so I wound up using the Accessibility API to move the target window offscreen, where it keeps rendering. Then we capture…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Substage▲183Hey all! I’m a solo indie dev and I’ve been working on Substage – a Mac app that docks under your Finder window and lets you interact with your files using natural language. Stuff like: • Convert to webp • zip these up • Author of this PDF? • Download this file: • Is this really a PNG? • What's 5 foot 9 in cm? • Open in TextMate Substage converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, or your own local model), runs it, and summarises the output. If it detects something risky, it’ll pause for confirmation before running. Commands run locally on your…
2025 · selkie.design · its alternatives →
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Hopper▲100Hi HN, we’re Sai and Aayush, and we’re building Hypercubic (https://www.hypercubic.ai/), bringing AI tools to the mainframe and COBOL world. (We did a Launch HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877517.) Today we’re launching Hopper, an agentic development environment for mainframes. You can download it here: https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper, and you can also request access and immediately get a mainframe user account to play with. There's also a video runthrough at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81L5DcfBvE.…
May 2026 · hypercubic.ai · its alternatives →
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X11 window management toolkit. Contribute to FascinatedBox/bonk development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LinkShell▲74Control your AI terminal sessions from your phone.
Apr 2026 · liutianjie.github.io · its alternatives →
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Run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode on mobile and write code from your phone. Shellular gives you secure remote access to your dev machine: a real agent UI, terminal, files, Git, ports, and browser DevTools, all from your phone.
Jul 2026 · shellular.dev · its alternatives →
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Launch any file, folder or app from your Mac menu bar
2019 · onmyway133.com · its alternatives →
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