Trending startups
Ranked by upvotes from the last few weeks, each counting half as much after a week, plus a head start for startups founded in the last four years.
- 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 - 9 Bun vs Node.js
A fast JavaScript runtime, package manager, bundler and test runner in one.
Since 2022 Free Open source - 10 Dub vs Bitly
Open source link management with analytics, custom domains and affiliates.
Since 2022 Free plan + paid Open source - 11 Formbricks vs Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey
Open source surveys for websites, apps and links, privacy first.
Since 2022 Free plan + paid Open source - 12 Infisical vs HashiCorp Vault
Open source secrets management for teams and infrastructure.
Since 2022 Free plan + paid Open source - 13 Loops vs Mailchimp
Email marketing and transactional email for software companies.
Since 2022 Free plan + paid - 14 Plane vs Jira, Linear
Open source project management with issues, cycles, modules and docs.
Since 2022 Free plan + paid Open source - 15 AppFlowy vs Notion
An open source workspace for docs, wikis and project boards, with AI built in.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid Open source - 16 beehiiv vs Substack, Mailchimp
A newsletter platform with growth tools, an ad network and paid subscriptions.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid - 17 Better Stack vs PagerDuty, Datadog
Uptime monitoring, incident management, logs and status pages in one.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid - 18 Bluesky vs X
A social network on an open protocol, with custom feeds and moderation.
Since 2021 Free Open source - 19 Cal.com vs Calendly
Open source scheduling for individuals, teams and platforms.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid Open source - 20 Convex vs Firebase
A reactive backend where queries, mutations and the database are TypeScript.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid Open source - 21 Deno vs Node.js
A secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime with tooling built in.
Since 2021 Free Open source - 22 Evidence vs Tableau, Looker
Business intelligence as code: reports written in SQL and Markdown.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid Open source - 23 Medusa vs Shopify
An open source commerce platform for building custom online stores.
Since 2021 Free Open source - 24 Mintlify vs GitBook, ReadMe
Documentation sites for developer products, written in MDX and kept in Git.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid - 25 Penpot vs Figma
An open source design and prototyping tool for product teams.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid Open source - 26
- 27 Zed vs Visual Studio Code
A fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust, with AI built in.
Since 2021 Free plan + paid Open source - 28 Excalidraw vs Miro
An open source virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style diagrams.
Since 2020 Free plan + paid Open source - 29 Luma vs Eventbrite, Meetup
Beautiful event pages, invites and ticketing for communities.
Since 2020 Free plan + paid - 30
- 31 PostHog vs Mixpanel, Amplitude
Product analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments in one platform.
Since 2020 Free plan + paid Open source - 32 Railway vs Heroku
Deploy apps, databases and workers from a repo, with usage-based pricing.
Since 2020 Pay per use - 33 Raycast vs Alfred, Spotlight
A launcher for macOS and Windows with extensions, snippets and AI.
Since 2020 Free plan + paid - 34 Supabase vs Firebase
A Postgres development platform with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions.
Since 2020 Free plan + paid Open source - 35 Tally vs Typeform, Google Forms
A form builder that works like a document, with a generous free plan.
Since 2020 Free plan + paid - 36 Warp vs iTerm2
A modern terminal with AI agents, blocks and shareable workflows.
Since 2020 Free plan + paid - 37 Anytype vs Notion
A local-first, encrypted workspace for notes, docs and personal databases.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid Open source - 38 Attio vs Salesforce, HubSpot
A CRM that builds itself from your email and calendar, with data you can shape.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid - 39 Clerk vs Auth0
Authentication and user management with prebuilt UI components.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid - 40 Hex vs Jupyter, Tableau
Collaborative data notebooks with SQL, Python and AI that turn into apps.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid - 41 Hoppscotch vs Postman
An open source API development ecosystem that runs in the browser.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid Open source - 42 Linear vs Jira
Issue tracking and project planning for software teams, built for speed.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid - 43 Plausible vs Google Analytics
Simple, privacy-friendly website analytics without cookies.
Since 2019 Paid Open source - 44 Ramp vs Expensify, SAP Concur
Corporate cards, expenses, bill pay and accounting automation in one platform.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid - 45 Render vs Heroku
A cloud for web services, static sites, workers, cron jobs and databases.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid - 46 Riverside vs Zoom
Record podcasts and video interviews in studio quality, then edit with AI.
Since 2019 Free plan + paid - 47 Fathom Analytics vs Google Analytics
Privacy-first website analytics that complies with GDPR out of the box.
Since 2018 Paid - 48
- 49 Pitch vs PowerPoint, Google Slides
Collaborative presentation software for fast-moving teams.
Since 2018 Free plan + paid - 50 Readwise Reader vs Instapaper
A read-it-later app for articles, PDFs, newsletters, feeds and videos.
Since 2017 Paid - 51 Framer vs Webflow
A website builder for designers, with animation, CMS and AI.
Since 2014 Free plan + paid
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