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. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

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   Web Speed▲118

   Hey everyone, I've been working on a tool called Web Speed. It takes web pages full of HTML and parses them into an easily readable sitemap for an AI agent. By ensuring the AI doesn't have to analyze the full HTML from the page or screenshots of the page, it makes the agent a lot cheaper and faster. It's MCP-native, so any AI that supports MCP can run it and take control of your browser for you. There are both “normal” and post-auth versions live on GitHub. What I think is the coolest thing about the project is the global cache of sitemaps. When a user visits a site, it takes the sitemap and…

   May 2026 · getwebspeed.io · its alternatives →

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   CoreSpeedfree tier, from $20/mo▲332

   One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools

   29d ago · corespeed.io · its alternatives →

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   Pluno▲174

   Browser agent that’s 10x faster than Claude

   Jun 2026 · pluno.ai · its alternatives →

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   Web Search Agents by Nimblefree tier, from $208.33/mo▲371

   Self-learning agents automate web research + retrieval

   Aug 2026 · nimbleway.com · its alternatives →

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   Agent 37▲401

   Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?

   Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →

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   Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context▲171

   Hey HN! I'm José, and I built Recall to solve a problem that was driving me crazy. The Problem: I use Claude for coding daily, but every conversation starts from scratch. I'd explain my architecture, coding standards, past decisions... then hit the context limit and lose everything. Next session? Start over. The Solution: Recall is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Claude persistent memory using Redis + semantic search. Think of it as long-term memory that survives context limits and session restarts. How it works: - Claude stores important context as "memories" during…

   2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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   Google Chrome Skills▲273

   Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

   Apr 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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   LockIn MCP▲116

   I was tired of how bad distraction blockers are so I built my own. LockIn lets AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) block websites by editing the system hosts file directly via MCP tools (via a secure cloudflare bridge). Why? Because chrome extensions don't work. Blocking it natively makes it unbypassable, and having your agent gatekeep your focus is the ultimate cheat code. Since everyone is using AI agents nowadays, but most people start scrolling or Reddit while waiting for Claude Code to finish, giving them control over your focus solves that. The MCP server exposes four tools:…

   Jun 2026 · lockinmcp.com · its alternatives →

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   Agent Browser▲149

   I've built a browser agent harness that outperforms Browser Code on their own benchmark (BU Bench v1), on success rate, speed and cost. Browser Agent: 88% success rate, $5.37, 32,694 seconds Browser Code: 78% success rate, $8.34, 47,970 seconds For browser agents to become ubiquitous, they need to be faster, cheaper, and more reliable. The harness was built with token efficiency in mind (and uses 91% fewer tokens than Browser Code) to reduce the compute and VRAM budget necessary to fine tune a small, specialised model. Because browser agent inference is intermittent, a small specialised…

   Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BackEngine MCP▲137

    Make private company knowledge usable for AI

    Aug 2026 · backengine.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5▲70

    An OKF-backed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server delivering persistent long-term memory and SQLite FTS5 search for AI agents. - fellowgeek/mcp-memory

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Browser▲143

    Hey HN! I built Browser AI after getting frustrated with the official Playwright MCP server in Claude Code. If you've used it, you know the pain: - 20+ separate tools that Claude has to juggle (click, fill, navigate, wait_for_selector, etc.) - Context window explosions from verbose screenshot data and DOM snapshots - Constant tool selection errors where Claude picks the wrong tool or forgets parameters Browser AI wraps Playwright MCP with a single natural language interface. Instead of Claude managing dozens of tools, you get one: browser_ai.execute. Just tell it what you want in plain…

    Nov 2025 · aibrowser.surf · its alternatives →

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    MemoryPlugin for OpenClaw▲128

    One memory across OpenClaw, ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini

    Feb 2026 · maximem.ai · its alternatives →

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    The new Firecrawl MCP▲108

    Agent-ready web context for any MCP client.

    Aug 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Click▲133

    Live research context for ChatGPT and Claude

    Aug 2026 · useclick.ai · its alternatives →

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    Web-eval-agent – Let the coding agent debug itself▲84

    Hey HN! We’ve been building an MCP server to help AI-assisted web app developers by using browser agents to test whether changes made by an AI inside an editor actually work. We've been testing it on scenarios like verifying new flows in a UI, or checking that sending a chat request triggers a response. The idea is to let your coding agent both code and evaluate if what it did was correct. Here’s a short demo with Cursor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoQK-bwR0w When building apps, we found the hardest part of AI-assisted coding isn’t the coding—it’s tedious point-and-click…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kit For AI▲83

    The memory layer for AI agents

    Jul 2026 · kitforai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hyperbrowser MCP Server – Connect AI agents to the web through browsers▲63

    Hi HN! Excited to share our MCP Server at Hyperbrowser - something we’ve been working on for a few days. We think it’s a pretty neat way to connect LLMs and IDEs like Cursor / Windsurf to the internet. Our MCP server exposes seven tools for data collection and browsing: 1. `scrape_webpage` - Extract formatted (markdown, screenshot etc) content from any webpage 2. `crawl_webpages` - Navigate through multiple linked pages and extract LLM-friendly formatted content 3. `extract_structured_data` - Convert messy HTML into structured JSON 4. `search_with_bing` - Query the web and get results…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API▲54

    Hey there HN! We're Antonio and Luca, and we're excited to introduce Smooth, a state-of-the-art browser agent that is 5x faster and 7x cheaper than Browser Use (https://docs.circlemind.co/performance). We built Smooth because existing browser agents were slow, expensive, and unreliable. Even simple tasks could take minutes and cost dollars in API credits. We started as users of Browser Use, but the pain was obvious. So we built something better. Smooth is 5x faster, 7x cheaper, and more reliable. And along the way, we discovered two principles that make agents actually work.…

    2025 · smooth.sh · its alternatives →

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    Kaiku▲79

    The task tracker your AI agents already know how to use

    28d ago · kaiku.tech · its alternatives →

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    Claude Memory – Long-term memory for Claude▲76

    OpenMemory Chrome Extension: Long-term memory for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok etc - mem0ai/mem0-chrome-extension

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast-agent – Compose MCP enabled Agents and Workflows in minutes▲29

    Hello, HN. I've created fast-agent to make building my own products easier - and remove the friction between defining Prompts, MCP Servers and their composition. It uses a simple, declarative style that's easy to work with and source control - with inbuilt support for the patterns in the Building Effective Agents paper. Because you can "warm-up" and interact with Agents before, during or after the workflows, it's easy to diagnose and tune Agent prompts and behaviour for later runs. Being able to set these workflows up makes LLM Context Management and Tool Selection a lot easier and can…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    browser-memory▲4

    Community browser skills for AI agents. Save time and token

    Jul 2026 · browser-memory.com · its alternatives →

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    Colin, a context engine for keeping agent skills fresh▲7

    Hi HN — I'm the creator of FastMCP and wanted to share a new project we've open-sourced called Colin. I obviously love MCP, but I also use skills extremely heavily in my day-to-day work. Being exposed to both has made me very aware of a tension: - Anything with dynamic information, I ship over MCP. This takes work to set up and requires conversational boilerplate to refresh in every conversation. - Anything behavioral, I put in skills. They're lightweight, used automatically, and feel great. But I would never put dynamic information in a skill because keeping it up to date is a pain. And yet…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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