Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Skynet by Sia
The decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for devs.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Skynet by Sia launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet). The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River[1], our decentralized group chat and Delta - a decentralized CMS. Users have already started to build their own apps on Freenet including games, and we have some interesting apps in development like Atlas, a search/recommendation engine. Architecturally, this new Freenet is a global, decentralized key-value store where keys are webassembly…
May 2026 · freenet.org · its alternatives →
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2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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GraphCDN▲360The GraphQL CDN with caching, analytics and security
2021 · stellate.co · its alternatives →
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Prisma Cloud is the most complete Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for code to cloud security in any cloud, multicloud, and hybrid environment.
2017 · twistlock.com · its alternatives →
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Saturn▲150Decentralized WeTransfer without any limits
2021 · misty-meadow-6745.on.fleek.co · its alternatives →
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CTO.ai 2.0▲204A smarter workflow for Kubernetes & Cloud Native apps
2021 · cto.ai · its alternatives →
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Stellate is now open for everybody with edge caching, query analytics, error tracking and protection from malicious queries for your GraphQL APIs.
2021 · graphcdn.io · its alternatives →
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Connect your existing cloud files to Fastio, then give Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, and other AI agents secure file intelligence for search, analysis, and coordinated work.
2019 · fast.io · its alternatives →
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Directus Cloud▲222A modern data stack in 90 seconds, no-code app & data API
2022 · directus.com · its alternatives →
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Upto 20 TB of decentralized data storage at fast speeds
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I'm Ben from Armory.io (YC W17). We just launched Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service (CDaaS) to make it easy for developers to deploy their apps safely to the cloud. We’d greatly appreciate (raw, candid) feedback from the HN community if this solution improves the speed at which you deploy to production. We have a free-forever tier that gives you up to 25 Application Targets[1] (our unit of scale for pricing). Try it here: https://www.armory.io/products/continuous-deployment-as-a-se... Our Story We’ve been helping large companies with CD since 2016 by selling…
2022 · its alternatives →
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We built it from the ground up, minimal Linux based operating system (written in go and rust), messaging system written in rust and infrastructure as code support (terraform and pulumi) There is even a dashboard, and a playground UI to manage it (that you can even run yourself) . Beautifully decentralized, you have full control of everything, you can deploy on your own servers if the cost of the cloud is too much. You can even run the whole system yourself if you want to. Here is a link to documentation https://manual.grid.tf/ Also, we are honored if it piqued your interest,…
2023 · threefold.io · its alternatives →
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2015 · nuevocloud.com · its alternatives →
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Free file sharing service built on top of the SIA Blockchain
2017 · its alternatives →
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2023 · eighty-twenty.org · its alternatives →
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