Startups
Startups challenging the big names
51 young companies, each listed next to the established product it takes on and what it does differently. New startups get a head start in the rankings, so the ones you haven’t heard of yet aren’t buried under the famous ones.
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Upvotes from the last few weeks, with a head start for young companies. Upvote the ones you’d switch to.
- 1 Cap vs Loom
An open source screen recorder for sharing quick video messages.
Upcoming Since 2023 Free plan + paid Open source - 2 Documenso vs DocuSign
The open source document signing platform.
Upcoming Since 2023 Free plan + paid Open source - 3 Fillout vs Typeform
Forms, surveys and quizzes that write straight into Airtable, Notion and Sheets.
Upcoming Since 2023 Free plan + paid - 4 Granola vs Otter.ai
An AI notepad for meetings that writes up your notes without a bot in the call.
Upcoming Since 2023 Free plan + paid - 5 Resend vs SendGrid, Mailgun
An email API for developers, with emails written as React components.
Upcoming Since 2023 Free plan + paid - 6 Twenty vs Salesforce, HubSpot
An open source CRM you can self-host and extend.
Upcoming Since 2023 Free plan + paid Open source - 7 AFFiNE vs Notion, Miro
Docs and whiteboards in one open source, local-first workspace.
Since 2022 Free plan + paid Open source - 8 Bruno vs Postman
An offline-first API client that stores collections as files in your repo.
Since 2022 Free plan + paid Open source
Who’s being challenged
Established products and the startups going after them.
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AFFiNE
tldraw
Excalidraw
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AppFlowy
Anytype
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Convex
Supabase
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Plausible
Fathom Analytics
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Railway
Render
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Twenty
Attio
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Plane
Linear
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Loops
beehiiv
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Bun
Deno
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Bruno
Hoppscotch
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Evidence
Hex
Categories
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Notes, docs, whiteboards, forms, calendars and the apps people work in all day.
Fillout
Granola
Formbricks
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Issue trackers, project tools and customer relationship managers.
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Editors, terminals, API clients, runtimes, docs and secrets for software teams.
Infisical
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Where apps run: hosting platforms, databases, auth, email delivery and monitoring.
Resend
Better Stack
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Web and product analytics, notebooks and BI tools.
PostHog
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Email marketing, newsletters, link management and events.
Dub
Luma
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Design tools, website builders, presentations and video recording.
Cap
Penpot
Riverside
Pitch
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Spend management, online stores, contracts and signatures.
Documenso
Medusa
Ramp
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Search engines, social networks and apps for everyday life.
Bluesky
Partiful
Kagi
Building something better?
Tell people which product you take on and what you do better. Once we’ve checked it, your startup is listed next to that product, here and on its page in our site index, with your pitch in your own words.