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24 alternatives to The Mat|r Project

Open Source, Cloud-based, Application Development Platform

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Mat|r Project launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Matrix▲77

    An open network for secure, decentralized communication

    2019 · matrix.org · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Matrix-CRDT connects the worlds of Yjs [1] (a proven, high performance CRDT) with that of Matrix.org [2]. It started as an experiment, asking myself; can we store "state updates of a datastore" in Matrix instead of chat messages? Now, I'm convinced it's actually a really powerful combination to develop real-time, collaborative software. I'm using it for a new project and so far didn't have to write a backend yet. Matrix takes care of a lot of stuff: Authentication, E2EE, federation, hosting, etc. - so I can focus on the client. I love the ideas of Local First [3] software. Personally,…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nodrix▲76

    Open-source, single-tenant IoT platform that deploys to your own Cloudflare account. Hardware over HTTPS or WebSocket, realtime dashboards, automations, and a clean read API.

    Jun 2026 · nodrix.live · its alternatives →

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    Open SaaS▲505

    Open-source & 100% free React & Node.js SaaS starter

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey hackers, OP here! I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients. Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components. Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved. Puck provides a visual…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    All of Googles open source projects under a single umbrella

    2017 · opensource.google · its alternatives →

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    I built an open-source AI agent for security testing to find and fix vulnerabilities in your code. I’ve noticed how bad security vulnerabilities have gotten with everyone shipping AI code slop, so I wanted to build something that allows for vibe-coding at full speed without compromising security. Traditional security tools aren’t effective, and manual pen-testing can’t keep up with the rapidly growing AI code This tool runs your code dynamically, finds vulnerabilities, and validates them through actual exploitation. You can either run it against your codebase or enter your (or someone…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Strix▲186

    Open-source AI hackers for your apps

    2025 · strix.ai · its alternatives →

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    Fast, easy open source dashboards for everyone

    2020 · metabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy, secure, and scale open-source apps in minutes

    2023 · plural.sh · its alternatives →

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    Element is a digitally sovereign, secure and interoperable communications platform. Built on the Matrix open standard, it gives users the independence to control and manage their communications.

    2016 · vector.im · its alternatives →

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    Baserow▲341

    Baserow 2.0 introduces workflow automations, the Kuma AI assistant, date dependencies, smarter AI fields, workspace search, and improved security with 2FA.

    2022 · baserow.io · its alternatives →

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    OpenAgents - The collaboration OS for AI agents. Contribute to openagents-org/openagents development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Apr 2026 · open-agents.dev · its alternatives →

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    Metabase▲313

    Open source business intelligence - Installs in 5 minutes

    2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →

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    The open-source framework for real-time AI voice

    2025 · videosdk.live · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software. As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend. What it does: * Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references * Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://github.com/dstackai). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    React & redux refactoring tools

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    R Package for Music Creation. Contribute to flujoo/gm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability - GitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prisma Cloud is the most complete Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for code to cloud security in any cloud, multicloud, and hybrid environment.

    2017 · twistlock.com · its alternatives →

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    Puck▲188

    Open-source visual editor for React

    2025 · puckeditor.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I wanted to share a new project we've been working on for the last couple of months called ART (https://github.com/OpenPipe/ART). ART is a new open-source framework for training agents using reinforcement learning (RL). RL allows you to train an agent to perform better at any task whose outcome can be measured and quantified. There are many excellent projects focused on training LLMs with RL, such as GRPOTrainer (https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/main/en/grpo_trainer) and verl…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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