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24 alternatives to The Bike Shed - #32: Bug For Bug Compatibility

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Bike Shed - #32: Bug For Bug Compatibility launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Fog Creek - The Problems with Open Source ▲70

   And how to fix them with Justin Searls

   2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Sifter▲112

   Simple bug and issue tracking for nimble teams.

   2015 · sifterapp.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Frankly▲101

   A dashboard of issues and PRs across GitHub repositories.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Flowhub▲85

   Let's Make Code More Playful (Beta Open)

   2014 · 12bet.review · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Overv.io (beta)▲120

   We give GitHub Issues project-tracking superpowers.

   2014 · overv.io · its alternatives →

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   Waffle▲84

   Your github workflow open sourced.

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   To Be Continuous - 12: The clash in OSS economics▲53

   Developers want $$ but everyone else wants free software...

   2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →

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   Stack Overflow Podcast - A Bunch of Bald Yaks▲66

   HyperDev, the fastest way to bang out code and run it online

   2016 · stackoverflow.blog · its alternatives →

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   I started a repo for sharing algorithm implementations▲52

   Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.

   2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Changelog #177: Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, and IoT with Ron Evans from The Hybrid Group▲59

    Leader of The Hybrid Group and creator of open source robots

    2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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    Youbeer▲62

    Nullified

    2021 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12BO
    BugQuest – Open Source Bug Patching as a Service▲5

    2018 · bugquest.io · its alternatives →

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    I made an open-source Replit▲9

    I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    I made a OSS alternative to Weights and Biases▲6

    Hey HN! I made a completely open sourced alternative to Weights and Biases with (insert cringe) blazingly fast performance (yes we use rust and clickhouse) Weights and Biases is super unperformant, their logger blocks user code... logging should not be blocking, yet they got away with it. We do the right thing by being non blocking. Would love any thoughts / feedbacks / roasts etc

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15BP
    BugBucket – Public Issues for Private Repos▲9

    2018 · bugbucket.io · its alternatives →

16. 16OS
    Open-source API-only Builders Forum (beta)▲5

    2022 · youonlygetanapi.com · its alternatives →

17. 17FF
    Fixbounty – Find security issues in open source projects▲8

    2021 · spatcher.io · its alternatives →

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    Yikes▲6

    An incorrect link was used so I’ll repost another time.

    2020 · netlify.com · its alternatives →

19. 19TN
    Theorylog – Notes for Developers▲5

    2020 · theorylog.com · its alternatives →

20. 20CA
    Coding Agents swarming your codebase▲9

    Imagine you have to make a little change in all your microservices, like changing a line in Dockerfile, but you have 50 microservices, ouch right! The PRs, pipelines, reviews... I have created a dashboard with a chatbot where you can simply ask "Update all repositories with alpine base image version X to Y", and then click next a bunch of time and see a list of PRs with their pipeline status. Hi friends I'm Daniel, the creator of Infra as AI. I was laid off from my SRE role a couple of months ago, and decided to build something that could always help me at work. My job was to keep the lights…

    2025 · infrastructureas.ai · its alternatives →

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    Automated bug fixing powered by LLMs▲9

    Hey everyone, My friend and I built a simple bug fixing app that listens for alerts/issues from Sentry, contextualizes it against your codebase, and any other data sources you wish to connect (right now we support Notion, Google Docs, and Slack), and deploys an ai agent to write a PR for review in Github or Gitlab to solve the bug. Our current demo shows the end-to-end process for a trivial bug fix, but we have been testing it with open source python repos like http-pie, comparing how our agent solves a bug compared to a human engineer and it gets fairly close. We are working on adding…

    2023 · resolvd.ai · its alternatives →

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    Thx bro!▲11

    Give and get instant programming help.

    2016 · its alternatives →

23. 23YA
    Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?▲7

    I must say I was encouraged to post my project here when I saw the positive response to this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3780731 Before you make any comments, please keep in mind that the project is written for fun. I'm not forcing anyone to use it. In fact, nobody should use the current unstable version in a serious project. Here is the link: http://github.com/bsg/libserv Please share your thoughts. All criticisms are welcome, even the harsh ones. p.s. The project is still a work-in-progress.

    2012 · its alternatives →

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    Winds▲9

    An open source RSS reader

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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