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refine

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

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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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

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refine 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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admin panelsAuthenticationdashboardsReactCRUD operationsheadless React frameworki18nState managementRoutingB2B solutionsinternal tools
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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 refine

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.

Payload

match 81

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

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

Wasp

match 79

Wasp is a simple configuration language for building enterprise web apps with less code and best practices. If a developer wants to build an app like Instacart, they need to know a dozen different technologies and how to make them work together - Wasp solves this problem while still letting developers use React, Node.js and their other favourite tools. We will enable enterprises to build modern apps quickly at scale, like Databricks did for data management.

shared extracted concepts: react; shared product terms: react, enterprise, web, like; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Dropbase

match 77

Dropbase is a prompt-based app builder that empowers developers to create custom back-office software fast and efficiently. With Dropbase, you can build backend panels, order/billing dashboards, and internal tools that can fetch data and trigger action across any database or service. Key Features: * Rapid development of backend panels, order/billing dashboards, and internal tools * Seamless data fetching and action triggering across any database or service * Intuitive prompt-based interface for

shared extracted concept terms: panel, dashboard; shared product terms: developer, panel, dashboard, internal; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Sanifu

match 71

Sanifu automates the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for. Teams across finance, marketing, operations, and revenue simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records, preparing reports and moving data from emails, PDFs and Excel exports into dashboards and other systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs so the work is repeated reliably every time Some of these work never needed spreadsheets to begin with; the likes of data cleanup, bank re

shared extracted concepts: dashboards; shared product terms: repetitive, like, operation, time; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Cortex

match 59

​​Cortex is an internal developer portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Companies like Xero, Canva, and TripAdvisor use Cortex to catalog, score, and assign action to improve service quality and velocity, so devs can get back to work that drives the business forward.

shared extracted concept terms: b2b; shared product terms: internal, developer, like, so; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

AskMyClass, now Soundkins

match 51

AskMyClass, is a learning assistant that helps teachers save time and enhance learning, using smart speakers like Alexa, and help students get back-on-task quickly and build life skills through classroom management, social-emotional learning, and lesson support.

shared extracted concept terms: management; shared product terms: save, time, like, task; shared affiliation: Y Combinator