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| Tool | Price | Upvotes | Replaces |
|---|---|---|---|
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Supabase
The open-source Firebase alternative
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Free | 0 | Firebase |
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Playwright
Browser automation and testing by Microsoft. Cross-browser.
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Free | 0 | Selenium,Puppeteer,Cypress |
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Redis
In-memory data store for caching, queues, and real-time apps.
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Free | 1 | Memcached,Amazon ElastiCache |
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Scrapy
Open-source web crawling framework for Python.
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Free | 0 | Beautiful Soup,Selenium |
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Vaultwarden
Lightweight Bitwarden-compatible server. Self-host on minimal hardware.
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Free | 0 | 1Password,LastPass |
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PocketBase
Open-source backend in a single file — SQLite, auth, and realtime
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Free | 0 | Firebase, Supabase, Parse, Appwrite |
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Appwrite
Open-source backend platform — auth, DB, storage & more
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£15.00/mo | 0 | Firebase, Supabase, AWS Amplify |
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Gitea
Self-hosted Git service. Lightweight and fast.
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Free | 0 | GitHub,GitLab |
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Coolify
Self-hostable Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel alternative
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Free | 2 | Vercel,Netlify |
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Context7 MCP Server
Up-to-date library documentation for AI code editors
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Free | 0 |
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