Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE
As a software dev, I really enjoy having live coding videos playing in the background while I work. But it's surprisingly difficult to find hour+ long videos of coding without commentary on Youtube. What I really wanted was an infinite coding video, so I built one. Pick your IDE/monitor/ambience of choice, hit the Screensaver button, put it on a second monitor or TV, and enjoy infinite coding ASMR.
This tool generates infinite looping videos of code being typed in an MS-DOS IDE with customizable settings for the IDE style, monitor appearance, and ambient sound. It's designed for software developers who want to… 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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Hi everyone! I originally created CodeVideo as a little side project using FFMPEG WASM in the browser as an experiment, but it's since grown into my vision for a completely automated software educational course production system. The idea is that you create the educational content once, then can export the course to multiple formats - as a video (of course!), but also as an interactive webpage, a blog post, or even a book, PDF, or PowerPoint! Basically a "create once, ship everywhere" concept. Things will get more interesting as I incorporate stuff like spell check (for speech) and abstract…
2025 · studio.codevideo.io · its alternatives →
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I've been building open-source tools in the video/multimedia space for 10+ years. Finally shipped the commercial product I always wanted to exist — Video Commander, a desktop app that consolidates FFmpeg, ffprobe, MediaInfo, VMAF and more into a single workspace where you can inspect, encode and analyze video. Built with Tauri + Rust backend, React frontend. FFmpeg and VMAF. Not a cool AI/LLM project, just a tool I've been heads-down building over the last six months. Happy to answer any questions!
Apr 2026 · video-commander.com · its alternatives →
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Some highlights: - 100% free and open source (https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder), no ads or paid content. - No account required at any point. You can start instantly. (You can create an account if you want to save your progress online and across devices. Your email is only used for password resets) - 3 integrated debuggers can be started with one click to show what your code is doing in different ways. - Enhanced tracebacks make errors easy to understand. - Useful for anyone: You can have the above without having to look at the course. IDE mode…
2023 · futurecoder.io · its alternatives →
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X-Pilot▲328Hi HN, I'm Heshan, founder of X-Pilot. We're building an AI Video Generator for online courses and educational content. Unlike most text-to-video generator that render videos directly from models (which often produce random stock footage unrelated to the actual content), we take a code-first approach: generate editable code layers, let users verify/refine them, then render to video. The Problem We're Solving Most AI video generators treat "education" and "marketing" the same—they optimize for "looks good" rather than "logically accurate." When you feed a technical tutorial or course…
Apr 2026 · x-pilot.ai · its alternatives →
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The collaborative video editor that breaks the boundaries of creativity, enabling you to craft infinite possibilities with your team.
2020 · modfy.video · its alternatives →
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I got tired of sharing AI demos with terminal screenshots or screen recordings. Claude Code already stores full session transcripts locally as JSONL files. Those logs contain everything: prompts, tool calls, thinking blocks, and timestamps. I built a small CLI tool that converts those logs into an interactive HTML replay. You can step through the session, jump through the timeline, expand tool calls, and inspect the full conversation. The output is a single self-contained HTML file — no dependencies. You can email it, host it anywhere, embed it in a blog post, and it works on mobile. Repo:…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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repo of my sizecoding entries. Contribute to ilmenit/sizecoding development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we’re Nate and Ty, co-founders of Continue, an open-source autopilot for software development built to be deeply customizable and continuously learn from development data. It consists of an extended language server and (to start) a VS Code extension. Our GitHub is https://github.com/continuedev/continue. You can watch a demo of Continue and download the extension at https://continue.dev — — — A growing number of developers are replacing Google + Stack Overflow with Large Language Models (LLMs) as their primary approach to get help, similar to how…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 9IM
I made a Logicboard.com — A collaborative code editor with code-replay feature. Code-replay lets you run the coding session like a movie, I wrote a blog post on how I implemented this: https://logicboard.com/blog/code-replay You can try out the demo here: https://logicboard.com/demo/:replay And play around with the code editor here: https://logicboard.com/demo/ Logicboard also has an REPL shell, just type "start()" and hit enter in the output area.
2023 · logicboard.com · its alternatives →
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Fast and easy code reviews you'll love, in your IDE.
2020 · its alternatives →
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VibeShift MCP▲141Hi HN, We are the devs behind VibeShift. We have been building this MCP server to put AI coding assistants in an automatic feedback loop. They code, test, debug, fix everything until we have a fully working, secure code. It tests like a real user, copies network/console and logical errors to give them back to cursor. (1 min demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_RgQGa8B0) We felt this was the natural next step for AI coding assistants. And with new asynchronous assistants like codex, having a plug & play tester makes sure you don't have to spend time debugging and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CodeMic▲52With CodeMic you can record and share coding sessions directly inside your editor. Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions with audio, video, and images. While replaying a session, you can pause at any point, explore the code in your own editor, modify it, and even run it. This makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video. Local first, and open source. p.s. I’ve been working on this for a little over two years and would love to hear your thoughts.
Feb 2026 · codemic.io · its alternatives →
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Annotate▲202Free: Drop files as context for screen recording as prompt
Aug 2026 · xannotate.com · its alternatives →
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Point and click any element in your browser, then let Claude, Cursor, Antigravity, or Qwen write the code. Dosmos bridges visual design and AI-powered frontend development.
Feb 2026 · dosmos.app · its alternatives →
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Screentell▲164I’m an indie dev, and every time I launch or ship anything, there’s this familiar mini-hell: “now I need to record a decent demo…” You probably know the drill: - install yet another screen recorder - mess with audio input / system audio - accidentally capture your messy tabs or notifications - re-record because you forgot to hide something sensitive - open a separate editor just to crop, zoom, or add a simple arrow After doing this a few too many times, I realized I was spending way more time fighting tools than making the actual demo. And most of my needs were pretty simple: short…
Jan 2026 · screentell.com · its alternatives →
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Turn code into cinematic typing videos in seconds
Jan 2026 · deadlycodevideos.com · its alternatives →
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TheCodePlayer▲108Timelapse video walkthroughs of cool stuff created with code
2014 · thecodeplayer.com · its alternatives →
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I’m happy to announce the very first version of YouRepl, a Google Chrome extension to watch video-tutorials and write code on repl.it at the same time! Learning programming from videos has never been...
2018 · yourepl.tumblr.com · its alternatives →
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Modfy▲123An open-source video transcoder in your browser using wasm
2020 · scalar.video · its alternatives →
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No-code tool to visually build your own video-calling app
2021 · enablex.io · its alternatives →
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DejaVideo▲93Continuous screen recorder for Mac, jump back anytime.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been programming since I'm 6 and I don't want to quit. Since Agents came into existence I've been increasingly building more of the random ideas. BUT, like many I kept getting stuck and frustrated where I wanted to make changes with the Agent that I knew I could've made without it but I had *no clue* how things worked. I created Intraview to help me build and maintain a mental model of what I was building (or had vibed) so I could use my knowledge to either fix it myself, or provide more directed instruction. It grew into something that's transformed my workflow in a pleasant way.…
Nov 2025 · intraview.ai · its alternatives →
- 24LLiveCoder▲18
LiveCoder is a fun tool I built almost a year ago to simulate live coding Frontend technologies for my presentations. You actually don't have to live-code, but just prepare beforehand the program, snippets of HTML, CSS and Javascript and you feed the tool with it, so you can just focus on explaining what's being coded. Simple :-) I never really shared this tool, but I used it in a few presentations quite succesfully, so I think it could be an interesting tool to use. You have full control of the speed. You can pause and resume... An entire app can be live-coded with this. It's quite fun to…
2017 · its alternatives →
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