Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Xano
Hi HN — I’m Daniel, DevRel at Xano. Three years ago, Xano started as an internal tool at a software agency. We were rebuilding the same backend infrastructure for every client—auth, databases, APIs, file storage, scaling, security—over and over again. To save time, the team built a platform that could generate production-grade backends in days instead of months. That internal tool evolved into Xano, which now powers products used by both startups and large enterprises. Companies like Deriv, an online trading broker with over 3 million customers, use Xano to ship features faster without…
Xano is a no-code backend platform that provides developers and app builders with a scalable server, flexible database, and API builder in a single account. Users can create, transform, filter, and integrate data… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Xano launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Build0▲349Build custom internal apps in minutes, no coding required
Nov 2025 · build0.ai · its alternatives →
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Retool▲640Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We initially launched Retool on HN five years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494. The feedback was extraordinarily helpful then (e.g. we launched source control, on-prem, etc. based on HN comments), and we’re grateful for all of it. Today, we’re excited to get HN’s thoughts on one of our new products: Retool Mobile. It lets you build and deploy mobile apps in minutes, not days. The idea is there is a large class of line-of-business mobile apps, and the process of getting a simple form + button on a mobile device, in a native app,…
2018 · retool.com · its alternatives →
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Zeroqode▲441Build your app up to 10x faster with no-code app templates
2017 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
2018 · tryretool.com · its alternatives →
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Render▲318Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…
2019 · render.com · its alternatives →
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Frontly▲738Build AI powered SaaS apps and internal tools with no code
2024 · frontly.ai · its alternatives →
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Zeroqode 2.0▲286Everything you need to build apps without code.
2018 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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Tines ▲557Hey HN! This is Yannick from Tines, really excited to share what we’re launching today. Tines 3B is a new product we’ve built for teams building agents, apps, and automations with AI, on top of the assumption that people are already doing this, whether or not IT or security knows about it. Finance, marketing, and more are building dashboards in Claude Code or Codex. None of it is malicious, people are doing exactly what they were asked to do. The issue is there's no easy way for that work to run securely: it ends up on a laptop or personal account, with a credential pasted directly into the…
Feb 2026 · tines.com · its alternatives →
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ToolJet 3.0▲598ToolJet helps you build enterprise apps, AI agents and workflows in minutes, not months. Create secure internal apps that are enterprise ready and SOC2, GDPR and ISO compliant.
2024 · tooljet.com · its alternatives →
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StartKit.AI▲520The first SaaS boilerplate for creating AI products
2024 · startkit.ai · its alternatives →
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The platform for people to turn ideas into working products
Oct 2025 · base44.com · its alternatives →
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UniDeck▲359Hi everyone! For the past few months we have improved upon our product called UniDeck, an app that allows you to connect different services and monitor their data. From every day services like Google and Github to your in-house api and tools, everything can be connected to a single dashboard and shared with your team for easy access, monitoring and collaboration. We have worked hard in the past 6 months since our previous launch to add a lot of features work on user feedback. UniDeck now has first class support for more than 15 services and has advanced widgets including tables and charts…
2025 · unideck.app · its alternatives →
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Atono▲189We kept asking "why did we build it this way?" and spending 20 minutes hunting through Jira, Slack, and GitHub for answers. It was a symptom of a bigger "Jira-problem". So we built Atono (https://atono.io). The idea: Stories that don't die when you ship. Everything - requirements, code changes, bugs, decisions - stays in one place. Our take (might not be for everyone): -Feature flags live in the story, not another tool -Feature engagement for you to see if people use what you built -Context > process What's in it: -Toggle feature flags right in the story -See usage graphs without…
2025 · atono.io · its alternatives →
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Firebase Studio▲539A cloud-based, agentic dev environment powered by Gemini
2025 · firebase.studio · 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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Unubo 2.0▲324Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases
2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →
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InstantDB▲320Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →
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Uiflow Studio▲259No-code platform for visually developing production web apps
2021 · its alternatives →
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