Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Strive
Gemini's inbuilt canvas could compile Latex and create a pdf. ChatGPT can now as well, with the launch of their Apps SDK. We made an app that compiles the Latex code written by ChatGPT and shows the PDF in the chat window. Users can then ask ChatGPT to make further edits, or download the PDF and share it. It's most commonly used by math teachers to make math worksheets I would love to see what other apps the community has made and submitted to OpenAI for approval!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Strive launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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ChatGPT canvas▲498OpenAI's new way to write & code with ChatGPT
2024 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations. The plot was sourced from a group of friends.
2023 · adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Gemini now lets you play with the concepts you ask about
Apr 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Gemini Canvas▲294Interact and collaborate with AI to create
2025 · gemini.google · its alternatives →
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Learn math and science with interactive visual explanations
Mar 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, As a developer, I much prefer to write code than read other people’s code. But most projects I work on involve other developers so it’s hard to avoid. Often I find it really hard to quickly parse other people’s code so I thought maybe ChatGPT could help. ChatGPT does a really nice job of giving clear explanations when you paste in code and ask it to explain it. But the interface is a bit of a pain to use if you’re using it many times a day. It’s also hard to share explanations with co-workers. So I built whatdoesthiscodedo.com. Just paste your code and get your ChatGPT explanation and…
2023 · whatdoesthiscodedo.com · its alternatives →
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Generate production-ready files directly in your chat
Apr 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Our most intelligent model that’s even better at coding
2025 · its alternatives →
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Build and update spreadsheets with ChatGPT in real time
Mar 2026 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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First AI App▲89Step-by-step guide for creating ChatGPT apps without code
2023 · firstaiapp.com · its alternatives →
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Bindly▲76Hi HN, I’m a product designer by background, not a traditional software engineer. Over the last year, tools like Claude and ChatGPT completely changed how I work. I started with small internal tools, and now I’m “vibe coding” multiple highly personalized apps. As I iterated between Claude Code (implementation) and ChatGPT (ideation / thinking), I kept running into the same problem. To think clearly, I had to repeatedly re-explain: - what the code currently does, - what changed recently, - and why certain decisions were made. That re-summarization step became a real bottleneck. So I…
2016 · bind.ly · its alternatives →
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The power of ChatGPT on any website, at any time.
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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During my winter holiday I played with ChatGPT and built an integration with the OpenAI Completion APIs and Excel. (And yes technically not ChatGPT but as close that we can get with the APIs that are available.) I found this incredible useful for my work on Filestar. I wrote some instructions here on how to try this yourself: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/use-chatgpt-excel-get-superpo... Please let me know if you figure out any useful prompts.
2023 · linkedin.com · its alternatives →
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Don't build forms from scratch. Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to write a survey, paste the text, and get a professional, shareable form in seconds.
Dec 2025 · youropinion.is · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, We built a quick experiment this weekend that allows you to use GPT4 to quickly generate shareable web apps that use the ChatGPT API. Here’s a video of me building an app similar to https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpvGd21V0u0 "What does this code do?" went to #1 on Hacker News a couple of months ago. The app takes a piece of code, asks GPT4 to analyze it and returns a simple, English description of the code. An app like this is super simple to build with MetaGPT. What other kinds of things can you build with this? *…
2023 · picoapps.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm a beginner at CAD so I built an app that does it for me ;) Describe a part and ChatToSTL writes the OpenSCAD code, shows a live render with size sliders, then exports the STL/3MF file. Because the output is parametric, it's easy to modify (unlike mesh models like Shap-E or DreamFusion). Try it (needs your own OpenAI key): https://huggingface.co/spaces/flowfulai/ChatToSTL How it works: Text prompt → o4-mini generates OpenSCAD code → live render + sliders → refine in chat → export. Examples & Code: * Walkthrough + real prints (bowl, hook, box, door…
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Edit and render LaTeX directly in your ChatGPT conversations
2025 · equationlive.com · its alternatives →
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My puny version of ChatGPT. This was based on the excellent LLM lecture series by Andrej Karpathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY The main points of differentiation are that my version is token-based (tiktoken) with code to load up multiple text files as a trining set. Plus, it has a minimal server which is a drop-in replacement for the OpenAI REST API. So you can train the default tiny 15M parameter model, and use that in your projects instead of ChatGPT. I trained it on 20Mb of Project Gutenberg encyclopaedias, then fine-tuned it on 120 dad jokes, to get a Q: A:…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Two weeks ago at their Dev Days, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT apps, interactive widgets that render inside ChatGPT using the Apps SDK and MCP. Building them using their template repository was surprisingly painful: every time you make a change on your React widget, you need to rerun the entire build pipeline to get fresh JS and CSS assets. The dev feedback loop was pretty terrible. That’s why I built a TypeScript starter that gets you up and running in under a minute. Clone, npm install, npm run dev, paste your ngrok URL into ChatGPT, and you're iterating on widgets with Hot Module Reload…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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