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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Thundra Sidekick

Trace and de-bug microservices remotely for $0

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Thundra Sidekick launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1
    Sidekick▲263

    Like Chrome DevTools for your backend, now open source

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2
    Thundra▲212

    Debug, monitor, secure serverless-centric applications

    2020 · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Sidekick is a live application debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running. It allows you to add dynamic logs and put non-breaking breakpoints in your running application without the need of stopping & redeploying. Currently supporting Java, Python & Node.js runtimes. Sidekick Open Source is here to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Bringing the simplicity of print() to production debugging!

    2022 · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    A productivity browser for becoming focused and unstoppable

    2020 · perplexity.ai · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    Sidekick▲480

    Build Zapier-style automations using only a chat interface

    2025 · sagekit.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7
    Sidekick▲1,341

    An AI-powered accessibility assistant in Stark

    2023 · getstark.co · its alternatives →

  8. 8AW

    Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…

    2024 · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Interact with your business apps in a ChatGPT-style

    2023 · jigso.io · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Your agentic CLI developer. Contribute to geekforbrains/sidekick-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11
    Buddy▲209

    One-click delivery automation for developers

    2016 · buddy.works · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Customer insight integrated with your email tools.

    2014 · getsidekick.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13
    Sidekick▲158

    A new hardware device to connect remote teams

    2020 · sidekick.video · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    AI designed for commerce

    2023 · shopify.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Instantly see user actions that lead up to a bug, in Slack

    2017 · kuoll.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    The only web debugging proxy that runs in the cloud

    2017 · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    Bucket DX▲294

    Co-founder here Reflag is designed for SaaS products that run on TypeScript. We've been working on this for a few years (team of 6). Feedback welcome!

    2025 · reflag.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18
    Epsagon▲82

    Automated tracing for cloud microservices

    2018 · its alternatives →

  19. 19
    Sidekick▲107

    ChatGPT for developer docs. Search & update from Slack

    2023 · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    Automation testing made ultra-simple

    2022 · bugbug.io · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Do microservices integration testing efficiently

    2022 · its alternatives →

  22. 22SD

    Hey Hacker News! Last week we made the codebase for product 100% open source. This week we shipped a dashboard to manage connectors, as well as integrations with Google Drive, Zendesk, Notion, and Confluence. This means Sidekick is now the fastest way to sync data from these tools to a vector database. Why is this important? For developers building LLM apps, data integrations are often the least interesting and most time consuming part of the process. For those that don’t want to roll their own ETL, Sidekick is an opinionated tool that lets them get an API endpoint to run semantic searches…

    2023 · app.getsidekick.ai · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Tools that enhance Flutter's development experience

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24
    Embrace▲148

    Crashlytics + Fullstory on steroids

    2019 · embrace.io · its alternatives →

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