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24 alternatives to We tried to make Azure easier for developers
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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. We tried to make Azure easier for developers launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2020 · join.remotemore.com · its alternatives →
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Sharing your ideas made easy
2016 · visualstudio.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · hoistapps.com · its alternatives →
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Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…
Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →
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You build. You innovate. You choose.
2016 · azure.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN: Kaveh here, founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS, GCP, and Azure spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. I have been building Usage AI for almost 4 years now (4 year anniversary in 1 month from now!) with an incredible group of founding people. We started as a product just to help lower AWS EC2 costs, and now we do all major AWS services (such as RDS, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and Redshift with more on the way) and other…
2024 · its alternatives →
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2019 · buffedapi.com · its alternatives →
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Developers want $$ but everyone else wants free software...
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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EasyManage▲18Automate Cloud Native Development & Improve AI Dev Outcomes
2025 · easymanage.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · fastlyn.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · manageacloud.com · its alternatives →
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i had previously posted this when it was aws-rce. it’s changed enough that i want to post it again.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · highflux.io · its alternatives →
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2013 · makeropspro.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · imperius.launchaco.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · producthunt.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · cloudspotting.co · its alternatives →
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Supporting your customers is now easy with a new helpdesk
2016 · azuredesk.co · its alternatives →
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I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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