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Notion Calendar alternative

A fast keyboard-first calendar client over CalDAV and Google Calendar, with a menu-bar next-meeting readout and one-click join.

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Heroku

$84/year

0 people want this replaced

Push a repo, get a running process and a database. The developer experience is what survives, not the infrastructure.

Netlify

$228/year

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Static hosting with build hooks, redirects and form handling.

Vercel

$240/year

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Git push to a live URL with preview deployments. Coolify and Dokploy already do this on your own server.

Framer

$120/year

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Site building with real interactions and publishing. Same advice: take the publishing half.

Webflow

$168/year

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Visual site building that outputs clean markup, plus hosting and a CMS. Ambitious for a week — scope it to the CMS and hosting half.

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PhotoCraftactive

A clean-room Photoshop in Rust: layers, masks, PSD files — early alpha

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n8nactive

Visual automation with real code where you need it, on your own server

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PdfCraftactive

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Excalidrawactive

A whiteboard with hand-drawn diagrams and live collaboration

replacesMiro$192/year
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