Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Yugentext is a collaborative text editing platform built with Node.js and Socket.io. It allows multiple users to write and edit documents simultaneously in real-time, similar to Etherpad. The tool is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An Etherpad clone in Node.js and Socket.io launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor▲460

   Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…

   2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →

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   Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor▲143

   Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js▲282

   Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

   2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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   I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative▲551

   Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex, inline comments, tables, and callouts to name a few. Features - Collaborative real-time editor - Spaces (Teamspace) - User permissions - Groups - Comments - Page history - Nested pages - Search - File attachments You can find screenshots of the product on the website. Website:…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Fabric▲690

   Make notes, tasks, and search, directly from the terminal.

   2023 · fabric.so · its alternatives →

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   Sandstorm-powered “Try a demo” on Etherpad front page▲35

   2015 · etherpad.org · its alternatives →

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   DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)▲269

   I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…

   2022 · its alternatives →

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   Neptune by Hashnode▲250

   Our Markdown-based WYSIWYG editor for composing blog posts

   2022 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →

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   Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki▲56

   2012 · enterprisewiki.co · its alternatives →

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    Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust▲251

    Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. Contribute to ducaale/xh development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MarkTwo▲71

    A seamless, speedy, syncing markdown editor

    2020 · marktwo.app · its alternatives →

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    Y-Sweet by Jamsocket [LW24]▲210

    Easily create collaborative experiences like Google Docs.

    2024 · modal.com · its alternatives →

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    PeerPad▲76

    Realtime P2P collaborative editing tool

    2017 · peerpad.net · its alternatives →

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    CodiMD▲70

    A platform to write and share Markdown

    2019 · demo.hedgedoc.org · its alternatives →

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    SharePad.io – A collaborative code editor and compiler▲60

    SharePad is a free online code interview tool, it has a real-time collaborative code editor, you can run code with built-in compilers.

    2021 · sharepad.io · its alternatives →

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    scrape-it▲186

    A Node.js scraper for humans.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Collaborative Markdown Editor▲83

    Collaborative editor with end-to-end encryption.

    2017 · standardnotes.org · its alternatives →

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    Apify SDK – A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript▲78

    Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headf

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor▲168

    2013 · firepad.io · its alternatives →

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    We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own▲139

    2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Scipress.io – a Markdown writing platform like Notion Medium MkDocs▲110

    Scipress is a writing platform with VS code editor built into the browser. It lets you make beautiful blog posts and programming docs with Markdown. Scipress supports code blocks with syntax highlighting, Katex, Tailwind CSS, images & videos, admonitions, popovers, blur screens, private posts, and a bunch of other cool stuff. You can also monetize via paywalls, if you want. I started this project almost a year ago to the date. This is my first time posting about it on HN. And if you're curious, I have made $0 from this project (but not for lack of trying).

    2024 · scipress.io · its alternatives →

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    Tangled – Git collaboration platform built on atproto▲173

    The next-generation social coding platform.

    2025 · blog.tangled.sh · its alternatives →

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    Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend▲38

    Hi HN! I'm Philip, one of the founders of Tiptap. Next to our open-source rich text editor framework, we started developing Hocuspocus about five years ago and open-sourced it too, to solve one of our biggest challenges back then: real-time collaboration in web editors. We found Yjs by Kevin Jahns, a CRDT library that handles concurrent edits without conflicts. Basically, Yjs merges changes from users without conflicts and in real-time. Hocuspocus is the WebSocket server built on top of Yjs. It handles real-time sync, presence/awareness, persistence, and Redis-based scaling. While we…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tome, aka Tom's Editor – a new command-line text editor▲131

    A command line text editor written in Node.js, focused on JavaScript. - tome/README.md at main · boutell/tome

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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