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24 alternatives to Solarch

Open-source TypeScript backend with auth, API, realtime & AI

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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    Solarch▲109

    Interactive diagrams with AI, and your code always in sync

    Jun 2026 · solarch.dev · its alternatives →

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    DataPrism turns the clouds you already use into sovereign, provable, unreadable storage. Client-side encryption, one TypeScript SDK, invisible to your users.

    2017 · dataprism.co · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…

    Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →

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    Nango (https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango) provides pre-built OAuth flows, secure token storage and automatic refreshes for 40+ APIs and counting. Why we built Nango: We built Nango to solve the pain of accessing OAuth APIs. Despite OAuth being a standard protocol in theory, it remains a major burden to implement it, even with the help of a library. You still need to add endpoints and logic to your app for the server-side dance, implement token refreshes, build & secure your token storage, deal with redirects on the frontend etc. But the worst part is that (almost) every…

    2023 · nango.dev · its alternatives →

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    Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities - remult/remult

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I built Typebase, a library that gives you Convex's DX with Supabase's openness. After trying Supabase I liked how fast it is to spin up a DB and auth, but really didn't like using RLS and SQL for authorization. With Convex I loved how your server "lives" in your code, but disliked the DB model and the realtime-first defaults. With Typebase you just write TS files inside a typebase/ folder in your existing repo. You can define your DB tables inside a schema.ts file and export server functions that your frontend calls like local functions, fully typed. Auth is built in. Then one…

    Aug 2026 · typebase.io · its alternatives →

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    InstantDB▲320

    Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt

    Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →

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    Stytch▲310

    User infrastructure for modern applications

    2021 · stytch.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple online database service in the cloud with NoSQL, REST API, low code javascript hooks, MongoDB support and more. Perfect for API automation, custom development, enterprise, backoffice, serverless backends, database driven websites. It provides easy collaboration and data management with secure

    2016 · restdb.io · its alternatives →

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    Next-generation ORM for Node.js and TypeScript

    2021 · prisma.io · its alternatives →

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    Backbench▲101

    Rapidly build and run serverless applications

    2019 · backbench.io · its alternatives →

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    TypeScript headless CMS + app framework

    2023 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate APIs, databases, and your backend with a prompt.

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    restdb.io▲131

    Simple online NoSQL database backend

    2016 · restdb.io · its alternatives →

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    Instantly generate openapi (OAS) 3.0.0 REST + GraphQL APIs

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SSOReady▲144

    Open source developer tools for enterprise single sign-on

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on Shelgon, a framework that lets you build your own custom REPL shells and interactive CLI applications in Rust. You can use Shelgon to: - Create a custom shell with only a few lines of code - Build interactive debugging tools with persistent state between commands - Develop domain-specific language interpreters with shell-like interfaces - Add REPL capabilities to existing applications Getting started is straightforward - implement a single trait that handles your command execution logic, and Shelgon takes care of the terminal UI, input handling, and async runtime…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ZenStack▲119

    Build scalable web apps with minimal code

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL client/code generator with autocomplete library ⚡

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to orch8-io/engine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Half a year ago, we posed a Show HN about ZenStack V1 as "DSL to define data and access rules closer to the database" Throughout the month, we've attracted quite a few early adopters. Some of them, such as MermaidChart, have successfully launched into production. After talking with them, we realized that many individuals found ZenStack while seeking a cleaner and easier alternative to RLS. As a result, we pivot ourselves to be a “TypeScript toolkit on top of Prisma ORM with a fine-grained Authorization layer, auto-generated type-safe APIs, and frontend hooks”. In V2, besides the more…

    2024 · zenstack.dev · its alternatives →

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    Sunmao▲74

    A framework for developing low-code tools

    2022 · sunmao-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Wasp (https://wasp-lang.dev/) is a simple config language (DSL) and framework for building full-stack web apps. You describe the high-level features you want (auth, CRUD, async jobs, …) using the Wasp DSL, and write the rest of your logic in React, Node.js, and Prisma. We’re focused on simplifying developer experience and ensuring best practices. Everything is open source. Why another full-stack framework? And why a config language/DSL? We were still experiencing a lot of boilerplate (repetitive tasks) using other frameworks—things like duplicating data models…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Turn database schema into Backend API source codes

    2023 · its alternatives →

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