We tracked 900 launches in YC Library's category. Some of these alternatives predate YC Library by years. Others went live last quarter. All of them pulled enough community attention to earn a spot in the index.
Community-ranked alternatives to YC Library based on 37,019 indexed product launches.
We tracked 900 launches in YC Library's category. Some of these alternatives predate YC Library by years. Others went live last quarter. All of them pulled enough community attention to earn a spot in the index.
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| Product | Category | Interest Score | Discussions | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MarketingIdeas.com | Newsletters | 1,207 | 420 | Feb 2024 |
| Upmetrics AI | Productivity | 1,204 | 340 | Aug 2024 |
| Folk | Productivity | 1,190 | 328 | May 2022 |
| Tango | Chrome Extensions | 1,132 | 484 | Sep 2021 |
| Namify AI | Branding | 1,126 | 307 | Jun 2024 |
| Gamma | Productivity | 1,121 | 438 | Aug 2022 |
| deco.cx 2.0 | A/B Testing | 1,067 | 204 | Apr 2024 |
| Peerlist | Web App | 1,032 | 296 | May 2022 |
| Surfsite AI | Productivity | 1,020 | 463 | Sep 2024 |
| Potion | Design Tools | 970 | 249 | May 2021 |
| xTiles | iOS | 950 | 667 | Sep 2022 |
| Den | Productivity | 947 | 434 | May 2025 |
| Arcade 2.0 | Chrome Extensions | 944 | 499 | Sep 2022 |
| Maven | Education | 924 | 303 | Sep 2022 |
| DataFast | Analytics | 899 | 59 | Jan 2026 |
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Upmetrics is an AI-powered business plan software that simplifies planning for entrepreneurs and teams with our intuitive tools. Create comprehensive business plans, accurate financial forecasts, engaging pitch decks, and strategic plans.
folk is the next-generation CRM: a collaborative workspace for all your team's relationships. ⚙️ Centralize all your contacts in one place. 🗂 Organize your contacts into groups and build actionable views. ⚡️ Activate your contacts as a team. 👉 https://www.folk.app/
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Gamma is an alternative to slide decks - a fast, simple way to share and present your work. Create engaging presentations, memos, briefs, and docs that are easy to discuss live or share async. All in your browser, nothing to download or install.
Web development should be easy and fun, which is why we created an integrated frontend platform that combines the realtime collaboration of Figma with the developer experience of VSCode, the extensibility of WordPress, and the power of AI, all in one tool.
Peerlist is a community-led professional network for people in tech with powerful work profiles at its core. A Peerlist profile can be used as a simple resume or a complete portfolio to showcase your work from Github, Dribbble, Product Hunt, and many more.
Surfsite lets you create AI assistants to centralize tools, automate tasks, and deliver real-time insights. Manage projects, track key metrics, and collaborate with ease. Say goodbye to scattered workflows and hello to AI-powered productivity!
Your content is already in Notion. Why not use it for your website? Potion makes this possible with a custom domain, speedy site, custom styles and great SEO.
xTiles is a visual workspace for organizing ideas and projects. Keep context and see the big picture to support your thinking, writing, or ideation. Loved by creatives for simplicity and flexibility. Join our Slack community - https://bit.ly/3SlqCu3
Den is Slack/Notion, fully rebuilt for AI agents. It gives you one place for all your chats, docs, and agents.
Create interactive demos in minutes that can be embedded on websites, blog posts, email, or tweets. Get your prospective users to try before they buy, and turn all users into power users. Try it out for free: arcade.software.
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These rankings tell you what the community thought at launch. They don't tell you what happened after. A product that launched strong might have stalled. A product with modest launch numbers might have iterated into something excellent.
Use this data as a starting point, not a verdict. The best tool for you depends on factors no launch score can capture: your team size, your budget, your existing stack.
We're working on it. Right now, the index captures launch data and community metrics. Direct product links are coming in a future update.
April 2021. Five years of launches, covering the entire AI boom, the no-code wave, and multiple cycles of every major category.
Not yet. The current index captures launch-period engagement. We're evaluating ways to track post-launch traction, but it's a different data problem and we want to get it right.
Check the comparisons section. We auto-generate side-by-side pages for products that share categories and have similar traction levels. If the pair you want isn't there, the products might be too far apart in engagement to make a meaningful comparison.
By community interest score. Higher score means more people engaged with the product at launch. We show engagement ratio as a secondary metric because it separates one-day hype from products that generated real conversation.