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24 alternatives to An open-source and real-time Reddit alternative, currently in beta

Social Bookmarking For The 21st Century. Best Reddit alternative on the Internet.

Voten is an open-source, real-time social bookmarking platform launched in beta as a Reddit alternative. It allows users to customize their browsing experience with over 20 font choices and numerous color schemes. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An open-source and real-time Reddit alternative, currently in beta launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported…

    2023 · non.io · its alternatives →

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    Reddit-alike where submissions and voting use Bitcoin - fisher-lebo/updn

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Voten▲73

    Social bookmarking for the 21st Century

    2017 · voten.co · its alternatives →

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    I submitted a link, when someone clicks on it I get an up-vote for this article. I don't want people to misuse this I just want to bring attention to this problem. This is the link I used that up-votes this: http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=3742742&dir=up&...

    2012 · its alternatives →

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    I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…

    2023 · zsync.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Twon▲283

    Node-based AI tool for enhancing your Twitter & Threads post

    2023 · twon.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey there HN! Meet Linkwarden, a fully self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages. Please also visit/star our GitHub repo [1]. Linkwarden was built using TypeScript and NextJS, backed by a PostgreSQL database for the lighter-weight data. The rest of the data can be chosen either to be stored on the filesystem, or stored on the cloud on Digital Ocean Space/AWS S3, the reason for the cloud storage solution was for the Cloud offering [2], we realized that the preserved webpages (archives) take up space pretty quickly and S3 was…

    2023 · linkwarden.app · its alternatives →

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    Discover products trending on reddit

    2021 · redditbests.com · its alternatives →

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    Build better products with user feedback

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    upvotetracker adalah situs berita yang menyajikan laporan terbaru dari berbagai topik dengan analisis yang cepat, jelas, dan mudah diikuti pembaca.

    2021 · upvotetracker.com · its alternatives →

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    I figured, "what better way to look at a list of (hopefully) inspiring projects?" The upvotes work and are globally synced.

    2024 · guycombinator.net · its alternatives →

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    Upvoted.▲245

    Upvoted is a collaborative feedback platform that transforms how product teams understand and prioritize user needs. By enabling communities to vote, comment, and track feature requests through intuitive public and private boards, the tool eliminates guesswork and provides clear, data-driven insights into what users truly want. With seamless sharing, visual roadmaps, and flexible collaboration features, Upvoted bridges the gap between product teams and their users, ensuring that the most valuable features get built first.

    2020 · upvoted.io · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to archivy/archivy-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LinkAce is a free and open source bookmark archive for long-term storage and organization of your favorite links.

    2020 · linkace.org · its alternatives →

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    VoteVid▲106

    Hey, I am Victor, a french student. I was tired of getting really bad recommandations from the algorithm, always the same videos, same topics. So I created a community-driven recommandation tool, with upvotes like Product Hunt or Hacker News. Looking for something to watch or want to share something you liked? Feel free to check the site, it's free, no account needed (unless you want to share or upvote a video).

    Nov 2025 · votevid.com · its alternatives →

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    Today's internet is filled with dopamine wells of content. I wanted to steer away from that and foster meaningful writing. So I made a site where you can only have a single post. The intention is to encourage thoughtful posts like the blogs we all love here at HN (Paul Graham's, fasterthanlime, Bartosz Ciechanowski's, etc). For now posts are only markdown, but I intend to make some markdown extensions to make posts more dynamic.

    2022 · app.pressnt.net · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News comments sidebar bookmarklet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Read and upvote the hottest news about the decentralized web

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been messing around with Bluesky for a while, and one thing I really missed was a proper way to browse discussions in a structured, Reddit-like way specially myself being daily reddit user. So, I ended up building a Reddit-like client for Bluesky that scratches that itch: Threadsky.app It pulls in trending topics, lets you explore conversations with a threaded view (so no more getting lost in replies), and even allows users to create channels with customizations, basically, like subreddits but on Bluesky. That said, this is still pretty barebones, and there’s a lot to improve. I really…

    2025 · threadsky.app · its alternatives →

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    Clickvote takes the hassle of building your own reaction components around your content. Showing real-time updates of likes, upvotes, and reviews between clients. Learn about your members through deep analytics. Deal with an unlimited amount of clicks per second. You can read the full article here: https://links.github20k.com/click-vote The open-source Library is here: https://github.com/clickvote/clickvote Please let me know your thoughts! Am I building something useless?

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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