AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Semgrep Assistant, a set of surgical AI tools for AppSec
Heya HN, excited to show off what I've been privately calling an AI cybersecurity tool built by AI skeptics. Two years ago we started a series of experiments with this philosophy of identifying small pieces of cognitive work where a human can very clearly map out the input data they need and the algorithm they'd follow to make a decision. This idea came partly out of frustration with the zeitgeist involving throwing broad AI features (e.g. useless chat bots) into products that end up unreliable and are targeting no clear problem a user might actually have. It feels kind of like a machete vs.…
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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Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities. AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access. Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals. For this project we've post-trained a…
Jun 2026 · argusred.com · its alternatives →
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The AI-powered AppSec platform that identifies vulnerabilities with comprehensive penetration tests and provides actionable remediation insights.
2024 · beaglesecurity.com · its alternatives →
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SecAIQ Watch▲70What are your AI tools really doing on your machine?
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Checkmarx▲10The Leading Unified Agentic AI appsec Platform platform
Nov 2025 · checkmarx.com · its alternatives →
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AI-Powered Cybersecurity Talent Marketplace
2025 · cyberagent.exchange · its alternatives →
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Hexar.ai▲15Hello Folks, since quite a while we had been working on an interesting problem which we have experienced and is known industry wide. As someone who works in autonomous robotics, we’ve seen how hard it is to debug hardware + software + behavior when systems fail in the field. Logs aren’t enough. Docs are scattered. People waste time hunting instead of fixing. Also leadership and development teams lacks track of what's the ground-level situation. This all info will be at one place. I'm super excited to finally share Hexar.ai, a canvas based intelligent tool we've been building to help teams…
2025 · hexar.ai · its alternatives →
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hey hacker news! no matter what I have tried, nothing actually got rid of spam calls. built an AI agent that picks up your phone to filter out these spammers dynamically. next on the roadmap is automating scheduling
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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AI-powered SAST Security That Actually Understands Your Code
2025 · enforster.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi Everyone!! Our team is made up of passionate AI enthusiasts with backgrounds in marketing, and engineering. We’re united by a shared belief that the future of AI should be collaborative, accessible, and community-driven. With experience building consumer products and scaling platforms, we’re focused on creating a space where anyone from hobbyists to professionals can discover, organize, and share the best AI prompts and workflows. Promptly is built with a community-first mindset, where user contributions, creativity, and learning are at the heart of the experience.
2025 · searchpromptly.com · its alternatives →
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aifeed▲10Hi HN! I built aifeed as a simple, real-time feed for AI-related links. It's meant for following new tools, articles and projects as they appear. You can also save interesting links to your favorites so they don't get lost. Submissions are community-driven, with light moderation and a small fee to reduce spam. Happy to hear any feedback.
May 2026 · aifeed.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We're excited to introduce Braintrust, a platform for running and tracking AI evaluations (“evals”) [1]. At my previous startup Impira and leading AI at Figma, we had this recurring problem where we never knew if changes we made to our products would improve or regress key user scenarios. We built some tooling to solve this problem and after talking to other developers learned that it was a widespread issue. Specifically, it’s challenging to establish a great dev loop that lets you systematically improve and ship high quality AI products. We worked with the teams at Zapier, Coda, and…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on: *RAG-Guard*, a document AI that’s all about privacy. It’s an experiment in combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with AI-powered question answering, but with a twist — your data stays yours. Here’s the idea: you can upload contracts, research papers, personal notes, or any other documents, and RAG-Guard processes everything locally in your browser. Nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly approve it. ### How It Works - * Zero-Trust by Design*: Every step happens in your browser until you say otherwise. - * Local…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone. Over the weekend, I built a tool for finding contacts using AI. Here's the backstory. My partner and I are working on an agrotech startup – we’re building telematics for agricultural machinery. Most of our sales come through cold outreach: you search for contacts, message them, call, make deals and so on We also do indiehacking, because agrotech is slow and a sometimes boring. At some point, we got tired of manually collecting contacts from the internet, so we built a AI tool for that. It turned out to be super helpful, and we decided to share it with the world. If anyone here…
2025 · leadloom.xyz · its alternatives →
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Fed up of 'restrictive' AI training plan creators, history analysers and lifestyle loggers. Try this - bit nerdy, lots of rough edges!
Nov 2025 · intervals.pro · its alternatives →
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AI AppSec Engineer for GitHub Pull Requests
Jun 2026 · secshieldai.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, We have been developing a platform to enable professionals to build AI assistants to help them through their work. After a few months, we realized people are trying to sell basic functionalities that can be built from scratch in a couple of hours. Due to this, individuals who are not familiar with the current SOTA are misinformed about the potential of generative models. So, we decided to open up some of our most popular templates as standalone tools for free to empower individuals and set a solid standard for what people should expect. We believe the barrier to accessing…
2024 · join.modularmind.app · its alternatives →
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Pullse▲10The execution-first support platform. Humans + AI together.
Nov 2025 · pullse.ai · its alternatives →
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I spent 9 months in abdominal pains. 7 endoscopies. Turned out the problem wasn’t even in my gut. That mess is why I built Healz.ai - AI + real doctors-investigator who build complete picture and look for root causes. I’m not here to pitch. I just want to know if it’s real or crap and are there people like me sometime ago. Please burn me as much as possible. Just want to make no bullshit service. No marketing. No “AI doctor”, NO "text-to-porn generator" hype. Just trying to make something that could save people the months I lost.
Oct 2025 · app.healz.ai · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I am Brian Cardinale, a penetration tester and security researcher at SecureCoders. We have been performing more and more AI based security assessments. We were presented a unique challenge of testing a system where the only interface was voice based, and as much as I like talking on the phone , we decided to create a test harness to facilitate the actual testing in a more systematic way. The technical test harness was the easy part, though. Creating test goals and attack strategies to help facilitate repeated and comprehensive testing became the real challenge. As such, we have…
Feb 2026 · redcaller.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! My name is Max, and I’m a co-founder at Lynx (https://uselynx.ai). We’re building an AI-powered incident resolution platform to help engineers debug and resolve on-call issues faster. If you’ve ever been paged in the middle of the night and had to spend hours piecing together logs, metrics, and code, we’d love your feedback. * The Problem * On-call hasn’t kept pace with modern engineering. Even with great observability tools, diagnosing incidents is slow because: - Systems are increasingly complex. - Logs, dashboards, and documentation are scattered. - Context often…
2025 · its alternatives →
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