Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Velo – Open-source, keyboard-first email client in Tauri and Rust
I built Velo because I wanted Superhuman's speed and keyboard workflow without the $30/month price tag or sending all my data through someone else's servers. Velo is a local-first desktop email client. Your emails live in a local SQLite database - no middleman servers, no cloud sync. It works offline and your data stays on your machine. What makes it different: - Keyboard-driven - Superhuman-style shortcuts (j/k navigate, e archive, c compose, /search). You can fly through your inbox without touching the mouse - Built with Tauri v2 + Rust backend - ~15MB binary, low memory…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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VeloFiler▲70Keyboard-first dual-pane file manager for macOS
Aug 2026 · velofiler.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Velo▲673AI video infrastructure to explain, train, and sell faster.
Apr 2026 · usevelo.ai · its alternatives →
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Velozity▲450Multiplayer platform for your teams and AI Agents.
Sep 2026 · getvelozity.com · its alternatives →
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VEKOS(Verified Experimental Kernel OS) is a Rust-based experimental kernel that focuses on runtime verification and security. Every filesystem operation and memory allocation generates cryptographic proofs that can be verified in real-time, ensuring system integrity. Think of it like a blockchain for OS operations rather than just storage verification. Key features: - Merkle tree-backed filesystem with operation verification - Memory manager with CoW and proof generation - Buddy allocator with zone-based memory management - Shell with VT100 support - Verified boot sequence with stage…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Connect sits on top of your data warehouse, so you can eliminate time spent syncing data and spend less on data duplication.
2021 · getvero.com · its alternatives →
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Taurin▲328TL;DR: Taurin is an AI-powered, local-first email client that helps you clear your inbox faster and smarter. We’re building a Personal Agent that learns and adapts to your workflow and integrating it deeply into the email experience so you can reach your maximum productivity. What we currently support • Automatically determine the importance and reply-needs for each email and provide a dedicated view • Organize all conversations and files exchanged with a specific contact in a sidebar • Track when emails sent via Taurin are opened • Summarize and auto-label emails with customizable options •…
2024 · taurin.io · its alternatives →
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Vendo ▲362Let your users build their own features inside your product
Aug 2026 · vendo.run · its alternatives →
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Velozity▲284AI Powered Instant User Validation got better and faster
2025 · velozity.co · its alternatives →
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I released a new version of Recut recently, rewritten from the ground up using Rust, Svelte, Tauri, TypeScript, and Tailwind (RUSTTT stack for the win!). It's the first app I've built with Tauri and I've really enjoyed it. Some back story: Recut is a tool I built to speed up my screencast editing workflow. It's like a lightweight single-purpose video editor. It chops out the pauses, with some knobs to tweak how closely it cuts and what it leaves in, and lets you get a live preview of what it'll look and sound like with the cuts applied. It can then export to a handful of other editors,…
2022 · getrecut.com · its alternatives →
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We are super excited to be open sourcing the Svix webhooks dispatcher! Svix makes it easy to send webhooks. You send your payload to Svix, and Svix takes care of deliverability, retries, security, and more. You can read more about why we built Svix in the original Show HN[0], though the gist is: our customers wanted webhooks to build integrations and workflows around our product, but we weren't willing to commit the engineering time, resources and ongoing maintenance required of a webhook delivery system. Why open source? On a personal level, I've been an open source maintainer and…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, We’re building an open-source identity and risk management platform and we’ve just released the first chunk of code, a fully customizable KYC flow & UI, to the public. We’ve chosen to use Svelte so our flows would be lightweight (it is ~50kb gzipped). Next up: - Adding forms and components for it to be used as a full onboarding flow. - Releasing an open-source case management dashboard, for manual approval of users. - Releasing an open-source rule engine, to help automate decisions. We’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any question you’ve got. And if the rest of the…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Skim▲141I built Skim because I was super dissatisfied with all existing Windows clients. I mean, it's not a rocket science, there should be some lightweight modern solution, isn't it? So I decided to create a client that just, you know, MAKES SENSE and has design younger than dinosaurs. Key points: * Obsessed with installer size: it should be under 5Mb. * BYOK AI. Cowriter, agentic search, summarization and other AI stuff is powered by your own key for Anthropic/Openrouter, or you can connect your own OpenAI-compatible server (including local) * No bloat. It should be as contextual as possible:…
Jul 2026 · skim-tech.com · its alternatives →
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Instantly turn your Mac inbox into a to-do list
2025 · filomail.com · its alternatives →
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Design beautiful emails, faster.
2020 · getvero.com · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker news, Over the last couple months, I've been hacking with a friend on an email client for gmail that is similar to superhuman. A little backstory, we think that superhuman, in it's current implementation is vim-like. We hope to mostly match the performance and usability there and expand it into something more vscode-like. Looking for feedback and suggestions!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Portable local development platform for Windows
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HELO▲27Debugging and testing your emails has never been easier.
2020 · usehelo.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. I built Payload to make file transfers easy for less-technical users who need large/fast transfers, so I have focused on auto-discovery, drag-and-drop, visually distinct device icons. It's using Tauri (an "Electron alternative" built on Rust) which keeps my binaries small and bundles to .msi, .dmg, .deb and .appimage. No CLI, iOS or Android support (yet). The network stack is a separate binary written in Go. It uses mDNS for local network discovery and TLS over TCP or Quic, with a public Ed25519 keypair for each device. The protocol is ad-hoc and symmetrical control stream using…
2022 · payload.app · its alternatives →
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a flexible threat detection platform that simplifies rule execution and management with k8s cronJobs and helm. flexible enough to run standalone or with other schedulers like hashicorp nomad.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to orch8-io/engine development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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