Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Trickle/tritty, a 600 baud pipe/terminal
TRICKLE is used as part of a shell pipeline and had very low throughput, hence the name: data trickles through the pipe. TRITTY ('trickle tty') might be the more interesting version of this tool: i...
Trickle and Tritty are developer tools that simulate slow data throughput. Trickle functions as a pipeline component that restricts data flow to 600 baud, while Tritty spawns an interactive terminal with similarly… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Trickle/tritty, a 600 baud pipe/terminal launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Get and manipulate data with a visual programming interface.
2017 · pipes.digital · its alternatives →
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Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview - akavel/up
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! localtunnel's server needs random ports per client. That doesn't work on Fly.io or behind strict firewalls. We rewrote it in TypeScript and added multiplexing over a single port. Open-source and 100% self-hostable. Public instance at *.pipenet.dev if you don't want to self-host. Built at Glama for our MCP Inspector, but it's a generic tunnel with no ties to our infra. https://github.com/punkpeye/pipenet
Jan 2026 · pipenet.dev · its alternatives →
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Fast open source Slack desktop app. Contribute to yue/wey development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Every data pipeline job I had to tackle required quite a few components to set up: - One tool to ingest data - Another one to transform it - If you wanted to run Python, set up an orchestrator - If you need to check the data, a data quality tool Let alone this being hard to set up and taking time, it is also pretty high-maintenance. I had to do a lot of infra work, and while this being billable hours for me I didn’t enjoy the work at all. For some parts of it, there were nice solutions like dbt, but in the end for an end-to-end workflow, it didn’t work. That’s why I decided to build an…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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$1,500 an hour and still using the software my grandma used to make bingo fliers!? Hi HN! I'd like to submit for your consideration Tritium (https://tritium.legal). Tritium aims to bring the power of the integrated development environment (IDE) to corporate lawyers. My name is Drew Miller, and I'm lawyer admitted to the New York bar. I have spent the last 13 years in and out of corporate transactional practice, while building side projects in various languages using vanilla Vim. One day at work, I was asked to implement a legal technology product at my firm. Of course the only…
2025 · tritium.legal · its alternatives →
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pypipe is a command-line tool for writing data pipelines in Python. When working with data processing in the terminal, I often find myself wanting to pass the output of commands to Python for further processing. In such cases, one can either write one-liners or create regular Python scripts and connect them through pipes. However, using pypipe makes this process more convenient and efficient.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’re Robin, Louis, and Thomas. Pipelex is a DSL and a Python runtime for repeatable AI workflows. Think Dockerfile/SQL for multi-step LLM pipelines: you declare steps and interfaces; any model/provider can fill them. Why this instead of yet another workflow builder? - Declarative, not glue code: you state what to do; the runtime figures out how. - Agent-first: each step carries natural-language context (purpose, inputs/outputs with meaning) so LLMs can follow, audit, and optimize. Our MCP server enables agents to run pipelines but also to build new pipelines on demand. - Open…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RapidPipeline▲131Optimize CAD & 3D for marketing and real-time, via Blender
2024 · rapidpipeline.com · its alternatives →
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A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes - nerevu/riko
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Treat Redis Lists like Unix Pipes. Contribute to lukasmartinelli/redis-pipe development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Godot-based Rust multi-PTY emulator desktop application - godot-pty/gpty
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple Python Calculation Engine. Contribute to bsdz/calcengine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An experimental programming language for data flow - calebwin/pipelines
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I needed to remote control a program (and read it’s output) while that tool should still be fully interactive for the user. Obviously there are things like tmux and more but they emulate an entire terminal. This is simpler in that it just sets up a pty and basic pipes or files to send stuff in and read from it.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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*Pipy* is an [open-source](https://github.com/flomesh-io/pipy), lightweight, high-performance, modular, programmable, cloud-native network stream processor that is ideal for a variety of use-cases like edge routers, load balancers & proxy solutions, API gateways, static HTTP servers, service mesh sidecars, policy agents, and other applications.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I often find myself in situations where I need to extract some data from a website, either as one time thing or periodically (and then watch for changes). Maybe I'm tracking stocks, or a delivery, or I want to know when tickets become available to the local sauna; maybe a friend called and asked "can you get me all data from that website into a spreadsheet?" (this happens surprisingly often) I used to write one-off scripts for that, often with Python or JavaScript, but I noticed I spend about one minute getting the right CSS selectors, and then another 10 minutes setting the rest of the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bring your dotfiles to remote machine via SSH. Contribute to FOBshippingpoint/shittp development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Or more precisely, my little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website . A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity. Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. But. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and of course one could not let the half-past just be. So here we are, for better or worse. Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\// The README explains all, animated GIFs and…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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