Alternatives to Death Plan Switch
Death Plan Switch: Free, MIT-licensed, self-hosted dead man's switch for solo developers: it emails you weekly and, if you stop checking in, asks your next of kin and then notifies the contacts who need to take over; PHP 8.1+, no database. Looking for something different? Here are other tools in Frameworks & Dev Tools.
Proa
Batteries-included Rust web framework with fast server rendering and multi-target rendering (HTML, Markdown and more) from one typed component.
Sygal
Local-first Mac and Windows app plus CLI that converts PDFs, Office files, scans and web pages into clean Markdown or JSON for AI prompts and pipelines.
Weatherdeck
Open-source, read-only status board for TV or phone showing what your AI coding agent lanes and machines are doing and what is waiting on you.
Sphinx
Free, MIT-licensed Git hook that quizzes you on what your coding agent's diff actually does before a push to protected branches goes through; works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or plain Git.
llmspeed
Open-source simulator that lets you feel a local LLM's tokens/sec and time-to-first-token on a chosen GPU or Mac before you buy the hardware, based on community benchmarks.
esp32sim
Open-source (MIT) ESP32 emulator written in Rust that runs real firmware locally or in the browser, with no hardware or cloud needed.
siltop
Rust terminal system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs showing CPU, GPU, power, clocks, temperatures and processes, without sudo or telemetry.
WhatsApp MCP
Open-source (MIT), read-only MCP server you deploy to your own Cloudflare account so Claude Code or any MCP client can search and read your WhatsApp chats; it can't send messages and is unofficial (uses the WhatsApp Web protocol).
OmniPTY
Open-source (MIT), GPU-rendered Rust terminal for macOS and Linux with built-in splits, pinnable workspaces, a vim-style file tree, copy mode and a git-aware status bar; no account or telemetry.
Spotnote
Open-source (MIT) Vite plugin: click any element in your running app, type what should change, and get a prompt with the exact source file, line and column to paste into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex; local-only and dev-mode only.