developer frameworks and starter kits
Recent window: last 5.2 months
(2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior
5.2 months.
horizontal · 234 members ·
Data as of 2026-10-01
These products provide code libraries, application frameworks, templates, and self-hosted infrastructure to speed up software development. They are primarily used by software engineers, technical founders, and indie hackers building web and mobile applications. Unlike end-user software, this cluster focuses on foundational building blocks and infrastructure for creating new software products.
Metrics
- Stage
- crowded
- Recent count
- 164
- Prior count
- 30
- Total count
- 234
- Momentum
- 300.00
- Attention
- 0.59
- Crowding
- 0.81
- Concentration
- 0.80
- Opportunity
- 0.49
Opportunity components
- Attention
- 0.59
- Low crowding
- 0.19
- Momentum (normalized)
- 1.00
- Low concentration
- 0.20
Source split
- github
- 27 (0.16)
- hn
- 22 (0.13)
- ph
- 115 (0.70)
- yc
- 0 (0.00)
Dominant source: ph · Divergence: 0.70
Members
|
Name
|
Source
|
Upvotes ▼
|
Launched
|
| Pylon Sync, an agent-first full-stack realtime framework |
HN |
12 |
2026-07-09 |
| Postbase |
HN |
11 |
2026-06-01 |
| I rewrote an inventory app 4 times over 5 years before releasing v1 |
HN |
11 |
2026-03-03 |
| kairon |
GITHUB |
11 |
2026-09-11 |
| health |
GITHUB |
11 |
2026-09-11 |
| PhpEZ |
HN |
11 |
2026-08-29 |
| varsiko-2.0 |
GITHUB |
11 |
2026-09-20 |
| A community-curated list of BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) vendors |
HN |
11 |
2025-12-16 |
| Neutrino design engine |
PH |
10 |
2026-10-01 |
| cedar-server |
GITHUB |
10 |
2026-09-21 |
| Rails-like web framework for Go |
HN |
10 |
2026-01-04 |
| AIOsubs |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-25 |
| Rapid-rs |
HN |
9 |
2025-11-20 |
| cloud-native-microservices-app |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-10 |
| kubernetes-preview-environments |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-14 |
| Formae now supports Kubernetes, Helm, .tfvars and a public plugin hub |
HN |
9 |
2026-05-20 |
| Tinbase |
HN |
9 |
2026-07-30 |
| next16-airline |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-17 |
| base-44-alternatives |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-21 |
| Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up |
HN |
9 |
2026-02-16 |
| nextos-universal-ports |
GITHUB |
8 |
2026-09-14 |
| BrowserGateway |
PH |
8 |
2026-09-15 |
| portfolio |
GITHUB |
8 |
2026-09-13 |
| StemJSON |
HN |
8 |
2026-09-14 |
| Underpeaks |
PH |
8 |
2026-09-24 |
| DocUp |
GITHUB |
8 |
2026-09-14 |
| Multigres Kubernetes Operator |
HN |
7 |
2026-03-30 |
| Attar |
HN |
7 |
2026-09-18 |
| nestjs-api-starter |
GITHUB |
7 |
2026-09-14 |
| Landify V4 |
PH |
7 |
2026-09-07 |
| BuildBase App |
PH |
7 |
2026-09-25 |
| Forte |
HN |
7 |
2026-06-24 |
| Built by Milo |
PH |
7 |
2026-09-23 |
| Tinykit |
HN |
6 |
2025-12-25 |
| I built a free AI tool that picks your SaaS tech stack based on budget |
HN |
6 |
2026-02-22 |
| Opencom, full Intercom alternative, open-source, Convex Backend |
HN |
6 |
2026-02-28 |
| Openinary |
HN |
6 |
2025-12-23 |
| Caravan, a flexible TypeScript-first logger for JavaScript applications |
HN |
6 |
2026-08-28 |
| SubPorter |
PH |
6 |
2026-09-25 |
| Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored |
HN |
6 |
2026-06-16 |
| A live badge that proves your SaaS runs on EU infrastructure |
HN |
6 |
2026-07-05 |
| WrapClaw |
HN |
6 |
2026-02-08 |
| SA63 |
GITHUB |
6 |
2026-09-12 |
| Boilerworks |
HN |
6 |
2026-03-30 |
| Rails Baseline |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-01 |
| We built a generator for Vue+Laravel that gives you a clean codebase |
HN |
5 |
2025-11-18 |
| Orca |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-13 |
| Mantis, A self-hosted LLM gateway |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-26 |
| TierWise |
HN |
5 |
2026-01-07 |
| Docora |
PH |
5 |
2026-09-25 |