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24 alternatives to Shardcake, a Scala open-source library for entity/actor sharding
Yesterday (coincidentally, a few hours before the Akka announcement), we open-sourced Shardcake, a Scala library that makes it easy to distribute entities across multiple servers and interact with those entities using their ID without knowing their actual location (aka location transparency).
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Shardcake, a Scala open-source library for entity/actor sharding launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi everyone, We’re building an open-source identity and risk management platform and we’ve just released the first chunk of code, a fully customizable KYC flow & UI, to the public. We’ve chosen to use Svelte so our flows would be lightweight (it is ~50kb gzipped). Next up: - Adding forms and components for it to be used as a full onboarding flow. - Releasing an open-source case management dashboard, for manual approval of users. - Releasing an open-source rule engine, to help automate decisions. We’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any question you’ve got. And if the rest of the…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ChunkHound’s goal is simple: local-first codebase intelligence that helps you pull deep, core-dev-level insights on demand, generate always-up-to-date docs, and scale from small repos to enterprise monorepos — while staying free + open source and provider-agnostic (VoyageAI / OpenAI / Qwen3, Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini / Grok, and more). I’d love your feedback — and if you have, thank you for being part of the journey!
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · mapzen.com · its alternatives →
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Intelli Hash▲166Open source image recognition to fetch hashtags from images
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We just recently launched Forge – an AI model API platform that lets you access and call AI models from multiple providers in one place. Find it on our website: https://tensorblock.co/forge Some key features: Unified API Key – Store multiple provider API keys and access all with a single Forge API key. OpenAI API Compatible – Drop-in replacement for any application that uses OpenAI’s API. Advanced Security – Strong Encryption for API keys with JWT-based authentication. Client Management – Easy key and user management via included command-line interface. Open-source –…
2025 · tensorblock.co · its alternatives →
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The shadcn/ui component library for building AI-native apps
2025 · elements.ai-sdk.dev · its alternatives →
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Decentralized, k-ordered unique IDs in Clojure. Contribute to maxcountryman/flake development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · domino-clj.github.io · its alternatives →
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Cinder▲122Free and open source library for creative coding in C++
2017 · libcinder.org · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I've been using this stack personally for a while now and decided to automate it a bit by turning it into a template I can reuse. Hope others might find it helpful!
2025 · bhvr.dev · its alternatives →
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A URI library for Clojure. Contribute to wtetzner/exploding-fish development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…
2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're building an open-source CMS designed to help creators with every part of the content production pipeline. We're showing our tiny first step: A tool designed to take in a Twitter username and produce an "identity card" based on it. We expect to use an approach similar to [Constitutional AI] with an explicit focus on repeatability, testability, and verification of an "identity card." We think this approach could be used to create finetuning examples for training changes, or serve as inference time insight for LLMs, or most likely a combination of the two. The tooling we're…
2025 · contentfoundry.com · its alternatives →
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:tropical_drink: A Clojure library for talking to your database. - taylorlapeyre/oj
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Wanted to quickly put this together after seeing OpenAI launched their new computer use agent We were excited to get our hands on it, but quickly realized there was still quite a bit of set-up required to actually spin up a VM and have the model do things. So we wanted to put together an easy way to deploy these OpenAI computer use VMs in an SDK format and open source it Hopefully this tooling is helpful to other folks building AI agents! Here’s a link to the repo (https://github.com/aditya-nadkarni/spongecake) - please try it out and give us a star. If you have…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shaai's mono-repo library. Contribute to shaaijs/shaai development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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blocks.so▲61Open-source UI library built with React, Tailwind and shadcn
Nov 2025 · blocks.so · its alternatives →
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OLake is our open-source tool for ingesting Database & Kafka data into Apache Iceberg. We recently redesigned the write pipeline and saw ~7x throughput improvements. Sharing the architecture decisions, trade-offs, and benchmarks.
Dec 2025 · olake.io · its alternatives →
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The first open source launcher written in Scala on Android
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs - lithammer/shortuuid
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distributed applications that are fully composable, where Web browsers are first class nodes in the cloud - GitHub - transient-haskell/transient-universe: A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distr
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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