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24 alternatives to Vitriol – a distributed, serverless web publishing platform

Live app: https://vitriol.co Vitriol is an open source distributed publishing app which works in the browser without extensions or servers to set up, thanks to OrbitDB[1] and IPFS[2]. Read the intro article here: https://vitriol.co/QmccRaHCrUKZwZpjdJFiTTdgp8FG3ALFDZQexaYgi... And try the live web app here: https://vitriol.co Gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/vitriolum/vitriol-web [1] https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db [2] https://ipfs.io

Vitriol is an open source web publishing platform that operates entirely in the browser without requiring server setup or extensions. It uses OrbitDB and IPFS to enable distributed publishing, allowing users to create… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Vitriol – a distributed, serverless web publishing platform launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Vite+ ▲300

    The Unified Toolchain for the Web

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    thirdweb▲897

    Build web3 apps and games, easily

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    No-code marketplace builder, fully extendable with code

    2024 · sharetribe.com · its alternatives →

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    Vite▲671

    Next generation frontend tooling

    2023 · vite.dev · its alternatives →

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    A low code platform to build internal tools

    2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source, dev-friendly and powered by GraphQL and React

    2019 · webiny.com · its alternatives →

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    Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else

    2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    🔥 🔥 🔥 The Open Source Retool Alternative. Contribute to openblocks-dev/openblocks development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. - ueberdosis/tiptap

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Distr is designed to help software engineers distribute and manage their applications or agents in customer-controlled or shared-responsibility environments. You only need a Docker Compose file or Helm chart—everything else for on-prem is handled by the platform. We’re are an open source dev tool company. Over the past couple of months, we’ve spoken with dozens of software companies to understand their challenges with on-prem deployments. We analyzed the internal tools they’ve built and the best practices from existing solutions, combining them into a prebuilt, Open Source solution that…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13NW

    We built Nostr Web, a new way to publish and host websites that live entirely on the Nostr network instead of centralized servers. Each website is a collection of signed, verifiable Nostr events distributed across relays—so it can’t be taken down, censored, or lost. It includes: • DNS TXT records for domain-based discovery (_nweb.domain.com) • CLI publisher tool for versioned deployments (nw-publisher) • Browser extension (nw-extension) for native browsing experience • Relay v1.3.5 support for Nostr Web event kinds Try the live demo: https://nweb.shugur.com Repos:…

    Oct 2025 · nweb.shugur.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, Really excited to share what I've been working on. Rapidpages is a prompt-first online IDE, think midjourney for front-end developers. I've been working on this for a while and it's great to see some interest from companies like Vercel in this space. All you need for self-hosting is an OpenAI key and a GitHub oauth app. Simply clone the repo and play with it. It's also available on the cloud at www.rapidpages.io Please give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback, and if you like what I'm doing with Rapidpages, please give it a star on GitHub. Thanks!

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vite-plugin-ssr author here. Let me know if you have questions!

    2022 · vite-plugin-ssr.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi guys, I've created an open source web builder framework (https://grapesjs.com) years ago, which I'm still maintaining, and now I'm excited to publish a side project based on it, Grapedrop (https://grapedrop.com). It's a simple web page builder which allows you to design and publish your web pages very quickly. The project is still in beta with a lot of stuff to improve but I'd really like to share it and hear what people think about it and maybe also get some constructive feedback.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vitri▲59

    Removing the gap between website's users interaction

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Initial version of my decentralised publishing platform for articles and blog posts - like a Web3 Medium. It's open source and [almost] fully decentralised. Runs on the Polygon network. Current version lets authors publish markdown content from their GitHub account and lets users tip articles. No wallet or GitHub account is needed to browse content. Authors link their GitHub account or organisation to their wallet address via oauth and an on-chain user registry, after which they can submit article URLs directly to the on-chain content registry. The content registry ensures only registered…

    2024 · seedling-d.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is Adrian and David, and we're excited (and nervous) to show you basetool (https://basetool.io). Basetool helps companies view and manage all their data in one place. Companies have data in tons of places like BI tools, data warehouses, 3rd party services, and their databases. However, because the tools are not connected, it's a hassle to have visibility across the whole organization and even more difficult to safely share that data with the team or external collaborators. The vision is to give basetool access to your data source and get a tool that way above a…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    ArXivTok▲105

    I made this, and it's fully open source so if someone wants to contribute here you have the url: https://github.com/Miguel07Alm/arxivtok. For this project I was inspired by https://wikitok.vercel.app.

    2025 · arxivtok.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    I built this as a small side project to learn and experiment, and I ended up with this! I used a subdomain from my personal portfolio, and everything else runs on free tiers. The project uses Nuxt, SVG, Cloudflare Workers, D1 (SQL), KV, Terraform, and some agentic coding with OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. What started as a joke among friends turned into a fun excuse to build something end to end, from zero to production, and to explore a few things I’d never touched before. I’d really appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

    Jan 2026 · certificate.brendonmatos.com · its alternatives →

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    In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing. Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time. Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it…

    2023 · vrite.io · its alternatives →

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    A browser-based serverless platform that is open-source

    2021 · moderncloud.io · its alternatives →

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