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24 alternatives to Shameless plug for my IOT dashboard (open source)

Crouton MQTT IOT Dashboard. Contribute to edfungus/Crouton development by creating an account on GitHub.

This open-source IoT dashboard enables developers to monitor and manage connected devices through a unified interface. Built for engineers and makers working with IoT projects, it provides a customizable platform for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Shameless plug for my IOT dashboard (open source) launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   MQTT Studio▲87

   Build your own MQTT dashboard in minutes

   2023 · mqtt.studio · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Cronhub▲418

   Painless cron monitoring in a simple dashboard

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   Turn your GitHub Gist into a live dashboard▲159

   :bar_chart: :clipboard: Dashboards using YAML or JSON files - GitHub - kantord/just-dashboard: :bar_chart: Dashboards using YAML or JSON files

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Cumul.io▲182

   Embed snappy, intuitive dashboards in your SaaS product

   2021 · luzmo.com · its alternatives →

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   Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices▲74

   2014 · freeboard.io · its alternatives →

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   GitHub for mobile▲467

   The world’s development platform, in your pocket

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   DashGPT▲287

   I guys, I built this spreadsheet to dashboard tool. You can attach any csv and optionally a prompt for what insights you want it to include, and it reasons over the data and produces a dashboard of different charts. Let me know what y'all think! Demo Video/more here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/spreadsite/launches/das...

   2024 · dashgpt.ai · its alternatives →

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   Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust▲334

   What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI). What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of…

   Jun 2026 · gitdot.io · its alternatives →

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   Create Your Own Startup Metrics Dashboard▲11

   Build a real-time IoT device dashboard using PubNub for global low latency updates

   2014 · pubnub.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Open Source alternative to services like Intercom.io and Smooch▲163

    Client library for Minimal Chat. Contribute to minimalchat/client development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A smarthome dashboard concept using zircle-ui▲90

    🎓 Tutorial: smart-home dashboard UI concept. Contribute to zircleUI/smarthome-tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Crontab Guru▲66

    We’re the makers of Crontab.guru and Cronitor.io, both first launched on HN about a decade ago. We wanted a secure web GUI way to manage/run our own cron jobs — so we built it and open‑sourced it! With Crontab Guru Dashboard you can: * Create, update, suspend and delete your cron jobs easily * Start a job on-demand or kill running instances that are hanging around too long * Debug jobs with a local console * Use our MCP server to integrate with coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code to configure jobs and check health/status Feedback welcome!

    2022 · crontab.guru · its alternatives →

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    Mqtizer▲85

    Cross-platform MQTT client for industrial-grade IoT

    2023 · mqtizer.com · its alternatives →

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    Github on Flock▲112

    Your entire GitHub universe within Flock

    2017 · apps.flock.com · its alternatives →

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    I made an open-source personal dashboard builder▲68

    The dynamic personal homepage builder. Contribute to trylinky/linky development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source multi-dashboarding platform for teams and client reporting▲73

    Open-source reporting platform to build and share live dashboards from APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, with powerful AI assistant, scheduling, and embeddable charts 📈📊 - chartbrew/chartbrew

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RAIOTerm: IoT Dashboard For Makersv▲8

    The first IoT dashboard where you prompt widgets to life.

    Jan 2026 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Slack Vibe 🎉▲106

    Open source analytics for Slack

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    A chat client built on git▲81

    Contribute to staab/git-chat development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Grafik Studio▲9

    Plot and log your IOT data to the dashboard for better debug

    2025 · grafik-studio.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Trackables▲76

    Open source telemetry solved

    Apr 2026 · trackables.org · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source Dashboard UI Kit▲21

    Awesome Dashboard UI Kit is a beautiful Open Source Bootstrap 4 Dashboard UI Kit crafted by Htmlstream. - htmlstreamofficial/awesome-dashboard-ui-kit

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    octoscope▲67

    Your GitHub profile as a live terminal dashboard

    Apr 2026 · gfazioli.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Frame.IoT▲70

    An Arduino-compatible dev kit for wi-fi projects

    2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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