Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE. As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort. So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource…
Superblocks is an IDE for building internal applications, APIs, and scheduled jobs. It enables developers to connect to databases, APIs, and data warehouses, then create admin interfaces using drag-and-drop UI… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Superblocks▲424Save 100s of hours building internal apps, workflows & jobs
2022 · superblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the founders of Superblocks, a programmable cloud IDE for internal tools. This week we launched a deep integration with OpenAI, giving developers a tightly integrated app layer for GPT-4 powered internal tools (components, integrations, permissions, audit logging, SSO, observability etc.). Imagine you want to create an AI chat copilot for your support team that gives them answers to customer questions from your company’s corpus of information. With Superblocks, you can directly query a vector database like Pinecone or Weaviate, feed the results into OpenAI using our…
2023 · superblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Anything API▲656Hey 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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I’m Frank, part of the engineering team re-imagining how software is built at Superblocks. We’re an extensible low-code platform that developers use to build mission-critical internal apps and workflows. We just launched “Control Blocks”, a visual builder for backend business logic that enables developers to drag and drop “blocks” (conditional, loop, parallel, try/catch, variables etc.) onto a canvas and construct cohesive business logic that reads linearly like code. The industry's approach to visual builders thus far has primarily been free-form flow diagrams where lines define the…
2023 · superblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all My name is Sindre, and I am the CTO of Scrimba (YC S20). For the last 7 years, I have written all my web apps in a full-stack programming language called Imba. It compiles to JavaScript and its main goal is to make web developers more productive. I just launched a major overhaul of Imba, so I wanted to share it here on HN, in case anyone are interested in learning more about it. It is very opinionated, so some of you might not like it, but I would love to hear anyones feedback regardless. Constructive criticism appreciated! The backstory: Imba initially started in 2012 as an effort…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Superset▲541Hey HN, we’re Avi, Kiet, and Satya. We’re building Superset, an open-source terminal made for managing a bunch of coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc) in parallel. - Superset makes it easy to spin up git worktrees and automatically setup your environment - Agents and terminal tabs are isolated to worktrees, preventing conflicts - Built-in hooks [0] to notify when your coding agents are done/needs attention, - A diff viewer to review the changes and make PRs quickly We’re three engineers who’ve built and maintained large codebases, and kept wanting to work on as many features in…
Feb 2026 · superset.sh · its alternatives →
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Build0▲349Build custom internal apps in minutes, no coding required
Nov 2025 · build0.ai · its alternatives →
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Tines ▲557Hey HN! This is Yannick from Tines, really excited to share what we’re launching today. Tines 3B is a new product we’ve built for teams building agents, apps, and automations with AI, on top of the assumption that people are already doing this, whether or not IT or security knows about it. Finance, marketing, and more are building dashboards in Claude Code or Codex. None of it is malicious, people are doing exactly what they were asked to do. The issue is there's no easy way for that work to run securely: it ends up on a laptop or personal account, with a credential pasted directly into the…
Feb 2026 · tines.com · its alternatives →
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Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
2018 · tryretool.com · its alternatives →
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Context.dev▲814Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.
Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Jimmy, co-founder of Dropbase (https://www.dropbase.io). We are an internal tools builder for Python developers. All you have to do is import any Python scripts/libraries, declare UI components, and layer app permissions so you can share them with others. We’re a middle ground between Airplane and Retool—simpler UI creation than Airplane, more code-centered than Retool. UI building is declarative and you can bind Python scripts/functions to UI components. You can write Python scripts/functions using our App Studio with support from a Python Language…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we’re Stefan and Adina, and we’re building superglue (https://superglue.cloud). superglue allows you to connect to any API/data source and get the data you want in the format you need. It’s an open-source proxy server which sits between you and your target APIs. Thus, you can easily deploy it into your own infra. If you’re spending a lot of time writing code connecting to weird APIs, fumbling with custom fields in foreign language ERPs, mapping JSONs, extracting data from compressed CSVs sitting on FTP servers, and making sure your integrations don’t break when…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!
2022 · dev.aspect.app · its alternatives →
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Superbuild 2.0▲250110+ actionable tasks to get from zero to $$$
2021 · superbuild.io · its alternatives →
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keychains.dev▲177Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…
Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →
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Budibase 2.0▲381Hi there, Mike here from Budibase. We’ve recently launched AI Agents into Beta, alongside our existing open-source app-building and automation tools. We built Budibase Agents for teams that want to leverage AI within real-world workflows, using their own LLMs, data, and APIs. Because of this, our Agents can be powered by any LLM with an OpenAI-compatible API, including open-source and locally-hosted models. This means you can build Agents that connect to your existing toolstack, within your own environment. Some more details: - Agents' behavior is configured using natural language…
2022 · budibase.com · its alternatives →
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Tonkotsu▲386Hey HN, I’m Derek, part of a small team of ex-Facebook engineers and designer building Tonkotsu. We strongly believe that the future of software development requires every developer to become the tech lead of a team of agents. That shift requires new tools and workflows that go beyond existing IDEs or terminal agents. Tonkotsu is our take on that next-gen tool. It’s a desktop app that lets developers plan technical work, delegate many coding tasks in parallel, and then review the diffs — all in one place. Our main difference is that we tightly integrate this plan > delegate > verify loop and…
Jan 2026 · tonkotsu.ai · its alternatives →
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SuperHQ▲95Hey HN, I built SuperHQ, an app that lets you run coding agents in local sandboxes (powered by Shuru). No custom UI wrapping the agents, they run as CLI/TUI like they were designed to. It just provides you the tools most of us (okay, maybe just me?) needed for running multiple coding agents in parallel without worrying about breaking your system or work environment. Each agent runs in its own microVM. You mount your projects in, writes go to a tmpfs overlay so your host is never touched, and you get a unified diff view to accept or discard changes. API keys never enter the sandbox, they…
Apr 2026 · superhq.ai · its alternatives →
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Anakin▲148Every second thing I build needs to access the web, and I was frustrated with not finding something that just works all the time. With my team, we built this because I wanted to enable access to extremely difficult websites and apps for every AI agent. We have solved this cat-and-mouse problem with self-healing built in. It's one API to get data from hostile sites, and it can do easy sites too. You POST a URL and get back Markdown, JSON, HTML, a screenshot, or all of them. That same call handles anti-bot, proxy rotation, JS rendering, persistent authenticated sessions, and schema-based…
2021 · anakin.io · its alternatives →
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Latchkey▲122Hi HN, At Imbue, we’ve been following the rapid developments in the agent landscape and noticed that the way agents interact with third-party services on users’ behalf often leaves a lot to be desired. Integrations are ad hoc, complicated, context-heavy, and either unfriendly to non-technical users or tied to a lock-in of some sort. We‘re experimenting with a command-line tool, Latchkey, that could be used by local agents targeted at non-technical users while avoiding remote intermediaries. As far as we know, this is the only existing approach at the intersection of these two goals. Core…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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All-in-one platform for building internal tools
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hey there, Chris here We're known for our straightforward yet powerful Knowledge Base, Slite(YCW18).We launched our AI-powered search in Feb 2023 and after getting great response and usage, we dove deeper into solving the challenge of knowledge retrieval in daily work. That's why we're now launching our second major product, Super(https://www.super.work). Super seamlessly connects your existing tools, providing accurate answers, streamlined workflows, automated digests, and much more. You might wonder: Why not just link your apps together using something like an MCP? The problem is…
2025 · super.work · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News! Launching gptengineer.app into beta today. It's like Claude Artifacts, but: - you can edit the code in your fav IDE (two-way github sync) - installs npm packages - automatically picks up build and runtime errors and fixes them - very fast, built with rust The full stack capabilities are built on supabase (prefer to not have to handle auth + user data at this point so this is owned by the user) The seed for this project was an open source experiment, posted about that previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730 Would love feedback if you give…
2024 · gptengineer.app · its alternatives →
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