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Payload

Payload is a developer-first headless CMS and application framework built to finally give developers a better choice in the world of CMS. From documentation to design, Payload is crafted from the ground-up to save engineers time and effort while building the backend and admin panel for websites, native apps, ecommerce, SaaS, and any other product that needs to manage content. Payload is changing the CMS status quo—working to give developers the tools they want to build the CMS they need, all in

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Payload is a developer-first headless CMS and application framework built to finally give developers a better choice in the world of CMS. From documentation to design, Payload is crafted from the ground-up to save engineers time and effort while building the backend and admin panel for websites, native apps, ecommerce, SaaS, and any other product that needs to manage content. Payload is changing the CMS status quo—working to give developers the tools they want to build the CMS they need, all in

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Payload is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Payload

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

refine

match 81

refine is an open-source, headless React framework for rapidly building enterprise web applications. It eliminates many repetitive tasks like ➡️ CRUD operations ➡️ State management ➡️ Routing ➡️ Authentication ➡️ Access Control ➡️ i18n and saves days of development time. So far, thousands of great projects have been built by 15,000+ monthly active refine developers. Use cases are ranging from admin panels, dashboards, and internal tools to B2B solutions and complex SaaS interfaces. refine is bac

shared product terms: developer, headles, application, framework; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Whaly

match 57

Whaly helps data teams save time on maintenance and analysis building while making business users more autonomous on the analysis they want to improve their decision making. We do this by providing a self service data platform where both data and business teams can work together. We understood that most data teams were ending up being a bottleneck for the rest of the company and needed to give more autonomy to business teams to back their decisions with data. Emilien, Florian and Pierre were the

shared product terms: give, up, save, time; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Raycast

match 57

Raycast is a productivity tool that saves engineering teams time on non-coding tasks in apps like Jira, GitHub or Slack which might take up to 50% of a developer's day.

shared product terms: developer, up, save, engineer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Jet Admin

match 57

Jet Admin - an app builder designed specifically for creating internal tools, admin panels, external portals, inventory apps, and other business applications really fast and without coding. In Jet Admin, you can assemble multi-page apps with complex user flows, connected to multiple data sources. Setting up custom layouts, adding custom actions and workflows, binding and transforming dynamic values, using conditional rules and validations - all is done through a drag & drop and point & click vis

shared product terms: admin, design, panel, apps; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Floobits

match 57

Floobits lets you use native text editors to collaborate on code in real-time. Floobits has 7,000 users signed up with eight hours a day on average per usage. The two co-founders Matt Kaniaris and Geoff Greer used to pair program together while at Rackspace, and after leaving, they realized that they wanted to build something that could help others do the same. The service offers freemium pricing, where free accounts have up to five workspaces available. But to work privately, a paid account sta

shared product terms: native, time, up, while; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Aviator

match 49

Aviator is a developer tool that automates merge workflows and keeps builds healthy. Engineers save up to 5 hours a week and avoid frustration of broken builds. Our users include Slack, Square, Benchling, Figma, Doordash and many others. Our goal is to become the leading brand for developer experience.

shared product terms: developer, engineer, save, up; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator