Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Upstream – Stream processing, for humans launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1CH
   Concord – High Performance Stream Processing with C++ and Apache Mesos▲7

   2016 · concord.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Flow▲87

   The psychology of optimal experience

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   TensorFire▲99

   Blazing-fast in-browser neural networks

   2017 · tenso.rs · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Dispatch Monitor▲61

   A framework for assessing the health of a water project

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   EyeWire▲59

   A crowdsourced game to map the 3D structure of the brain

   2015 · eyewire.org · its alternatives →

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   Talking Machines: OpenAI and Gaussian Processes▲56

   Featuring Ilya Sutskever, director of research for OpenAI

   2016 · thetalkingmachines.com · its alternatives →

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   EyeWire▲57

   A crowdsourced game to map the 3D structure of the brain

   2015 · eyewire.org · its alternatives →

8. 8WB
   We built rescaling for distributed stateful stream processing▲5

   2023 · bytewax.io · its alternatives →

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   Demuxed: Ep. #2, Adaptive Streaming & DASH▲55

   Podcast for & by engineers working with web video

   2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Streaming data analysis on Colab with the help of Bokeh▲5

    2023 · colab.research.google.com · its alternatives →

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    TensorFlow▲17

    An Open Source Library for Machine Intelligence (by Google)

    2015 · tensorflow.org · its alternatives →

12. 12UC
    Userflows – Create User Journeys in Seconds▲5

    2018 · userflows.marvelapp.com · its alternatives →

13. 13PS
    Patterns – Subliminal Messages with ControlNet▲8

    2023 · krea.ai · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Sonar▲14

    A linting tool for the web

    2017 · its alternatives →

15. 15PA
    Parametric Activation Pools greatly increase performance in ConvNets▲6

    2016 · blog.claymcleod.io · its alternatives →

16. 16FA
    Facile.Audio – A library for live audio streaming from the browser▲7

    2016 · facile.audio · its alternatives →

17. 17SJ
    Siphon.js – A data extraction library built for scale▲8

    2016 · siphonjs.com · its alternatives →

18. 18FA
    Flow, a WebRTC/Web Audio HTML5 experiment.▲6

    2012 · trypwire.flow.jit.su · its alternatives →

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    CrowdProcess▲4

    The HTML5 Supercomputer

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    PromptFlow – Build LLM flows as directed graphs▲6

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I presented a novel efficient streaming algorithm▲12

    This paper has been accepted to KDD2025.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22SA
    StreamDuo – A platform for B2B data streaming▲7

    2022 · streamduo.com · its alternatives →

23. 23BA
    Built a low-latency on-chain data stream: We'd love feedback▲5

    2018 · dev.tokenanalyst.io · its alternatives →

24. 24UF
    User flow done in seconds, not hours▲5

    2020 · wwww.pixelic.io · its alternatives →

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