Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Stringify – a new IoT platform to let you visually connect everything
Hi HN, We're a new Bay Area startup aiming to connect all of your things visually - supporting multiple triggers (AND and OR), multiple actions, cascading flows, etc. We're already integrating with dozens of services, both physical and digital - SmartThings, LIFX, Hue, Jawbone, Withings, Misfit, Dropbox, Google Drive, and the list goes on. We're really hoping to get some additional beta testers. We're on iOS only for now - so if you have an iPhone and want to give it a shot, get on our invite list @ https://www.stringify.com and we'll send you a TestFlight invite in the next few…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Stringify – a new IoT platform to let you visually connect everything launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2025 · defn.io · its alternatives →
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Amber▲133Hi HN! Excited to share early access to Amber. I’ve tried every all-in-one messenger out there (Beeper included) but they always fell short. No real folders, no AI, clunky UI, no CRM features… As a founder who speaks with hundreds of people every quarter, I needed something better. So I decided to rebuild the entire experience from ground up. Thoughts from one of our users: "The app I've been searching for for a looong time." Check it out for free today! Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/8b5bc80b9893436b9190ae41fc3f0f50 Features: - All messages (Whatsapp, Telegram,…
2025 · useamber.app · its alternatives →
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Hey guys! Im so happy to announce the launch of my new startup, Kiveve. Kiveve is a traffic exchange network created to help quality content bloggers and webmasters increase their traffic and therefore their revenue. We are at our very early stages and we are now open for website application to join our network I'd love to know what you think about it!
2011 · kiveve.com · its alternatives →
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TLDR: The beta of my my site, Sparkmuse, has begun. Please join me at http://www.sparkmuse.com/invitation/Hacker-News . The Story: Well here it is, the beta of Sparkmuse. I'm pretty happy to "get there", but I'm really just relieved. Don't get me wrong, I'm F'ING STOKED to get this in front of some more valuable eyeballs, especially the Hacker News crowd. Right now though, I'm just leaning back in a rickety old chair thinking "I did it." Several months ago I was pretty down on myself. I wanted to get out there and meet new people, do cool projects, explore new technologies, and just jump…
2011 · sparkmuse.com · its alternatives →
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just a wack systems dude tbh
2018 · h313.info · its alternatives →
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I am announcing the private beta of my first web app (http://getfounder.com). The beta will launch in just one city, which will be determined by the number of entries on the location-aware sign up page. As this is my first public release, I'm looking to the HN community to offer me feedback on what I should/shouldn't be displaying on the homepage. I'd be grateful for any advice you had to offer. Thanks, and I hope to see some of you in the private beta! Colin
2011 · getfounder.com · its alternatives →
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hey hn – mint is gone, the clones feel like bloatware, and afaict every “personal finance” app still assumes you love staring at pie charts for fun. i don’t. so i built peek. - ai-first: an ai agent does the number-crunching and pings you with bite-sized nudges instead of guilt-trips - habit loop > dashboard: get weekly “wrapped”-style digests that actually push you towards forming new positive habits, not just remind you you spent too much on coffee - mobile-only rn (ios) bc that’s where gen z actually lives link:…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a musician by night, software developer by day, and one of the minor frustrations I've always had was trying to find a simple tuner app for my phone. Looking at both the iOS and Android app stores, you'll find a lot of the top tuner apps are rather bloated with ads or subscription callouts. I thought I'd create a dead-simple minimalistic mobile chromatic tuner the way I would like it - open the app and tune my guitar. My work is in web with NodeJS and React, so I chose React Native since it was the easiest to understand coming from React. Flutter was also an option since the company I…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, one of the co-founders of Upmate here! We kicked off Upmate to scratch our own itch: keeping mobile app users in the loop about new features without messing around with native code. Our inspiration? The awesome WhatsNewKit [https://github.com/SvenTiigi/WhatsNewKit]. But we needed something more flexible—something that could be updated remotely. As mobile startup veterans, we've been burned too many times by ridiculous pricing plans and limitations. We were fed up with all the overpriced, restrictive options out there for in-app messaging. So, we built Upmate. Why?…
2024 · upmate.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m working on Agora, an AI search engine for e-commerce products. Excited to launch the Agora API that helps other developers embed shopping experiences into their app. We provide endpoints to search, purchase, and track products sold on 25,000 different Shopify and WooCommerce stores. Early customers are building social shopping apps, marketplaces, and AI shopping assistants. I’d love your feedback!
2025 · developer.searchagora.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, This is Venkat and Esther here. We did a Show HN for AirSend 6 months ago - thank you again for your support! Since then the product has come a long way. We’ve added many major functionalities based on feedback and wanted to share those with you today. As a reminder, AirSend (www.airsend.io) lets you instantly collaborate. Send messages, have voice/video calls, share and organize files, manage tasks, and keep notes all in one place. AirSend could potentially replace Slack, Dropbox, and Trello for small teams. It’s our moonshot attempt to redefine how teams communicate and…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN'ers! If you sit around a computer all day and are looking to be more active, or are just active in general, check out our app! https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id903459923?pt=265797&ct=hn&mt=8 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.activityclub We have been hacking on this for 2 years and it's finally nearing a state where we are stoked about! Launched last Aug (2015) to the public. Coming up on our 1 yr anniversary and starting to get some traction. Two of us have _each_ lost about 70lbs while building the app…
2016 · its alternatives →
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https://www.houndify.com/ Hey all, I'm a software engineer at SoundHound where we are very actively developing our sophisticated new voice recognition API. You can see it at work in these vids of the Hound assistant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVlKRK-wkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckXei1d-zr0 We're in the process of giving out verification codes but ping me (rob at soundhound dot com) if your interested in using it right away or if your in Toronto or the Bar area and want help…
2015 · its alternatives →
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I am a software engineer working alone on a passion project, a website that helps you stay organized easily and efficiently. Headspace.io is a webmail, notepad, task list and calendar, all rolled into on. The basic premise is that any data in Headspace can be "tagged" and then all relevant information for a particular tag can be displayed in one screen. This is a pre-beta build and I'm hoping to get some early feedback from the wise and generous HN folks. Would you pay a small monthly fee ($5 maybe) for a service like this? http://app.headspace.io/ (This is pre-production so…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Hi, Sometimes I want to wrap an existing website into an Android app quickly so I made a service that does just that https://html2apk.com/ If you find it useful I'll be happy to hear about that, if you have any other comments/suggestions I'll be happy to hear about that too. 10x, Gilad
2019 · its alternatives →
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I have always dreamed of learning Swift and creating apps for iOS, but I never found the motivation to do so. I was scared by the complexity and the learning curve of programming with UIKit and Storyboard. I thought they were too complicated and too boring for me. But then I discovered SwiftUI, the new framework for building user interfaces for Apple platforms. I was captivated by its simplicity and elegance. I watched some videos and read some articles about it and I was blown away by what it could do. I decided to give it a shot and see if I could learn it and make something with it. I set…
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello all, I made a small transcription app for your Mac based on OpenAI’s Whisper. Would love some feedback. My plan is to make it easy to load weights from any fine-tuned whisper model to enable specialized dictation for any subfield. It’s still early in development. Thanks!
2023 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I started building VIBESxCODED to bring everything I wanted as a developer into one space — prompt-based app generation, live preview, and deployment flows. Still early, still building in public. Would love feedback — brutal honesty welcome.
2025 · vibescoded.com · its alternatives →
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Built this at a Startup Weekend last November. We've been sitting on this code for months. Would love to have some people signup and throw us a little feedback. Clearly this isn't finished, but with a little crowd support, we could just wrap it up in a weekend. A few things: - Works with Youtube and Vimeo, probably a few others. - Web UI is still pretty sloppy - zero onboarding. sorry. - We have native iPhone and iPad clients that are a handful of bugs from being shipped. Anyone interested in beta testing them, shoot me an email at ddinch :at: gmail. We will beam you up via TestFlight (great…
2011 · clpstr.com · its alternatives →
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