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A curated list of commercial software and open-source alternatives.

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GITHUB · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 49 upvotes (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: software discovery and resource directories · 172 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -27% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • alternatives
  • awesome
  • awesome-list
  • awesome-lists

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2286 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1500 of 2287 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 379 days after the earliest competitor.

  • OpenStore · github · 2026-10-05 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • awesome-jev-projects · github · 2026-09-18 · 371 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • awesome-reverse-engineering · github · 2026-10-09 · 389 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • remade · github · 2026-10-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • awesome-android-apps · github · 2026-09-15 · 106 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • awesome-rex · github · 2026-10-27 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Fabro · hn · 2026-03-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • open-circle · github · 2026-10-14 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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