Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear
The most minimal blogging platform ever
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging
2020 · bearblog.dev · its alternatives →
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Official documentation for Bear Blog Bear is the perfect blogging platform. It does everything you need, and nothing more. To request a feature or rep...
2023 · docs.bearblog.dev · its alternatives →
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Koala▲117Free, open source and web based bear alternative.
2022 · koalanotes.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.
Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app · its alternatives →
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Minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform.
2018 · writefreely.org · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I’ve made this bot, it fetches every story that enters the HN Top 10, summarizes it with AI to a tweet-sized textlog note and publishes it. textlog.cc offers these endpoints as RSS/Atom through textlog.cc/u/hn10.rss and textlog.cc/u/hn10.atom so you can subscribe easily. Enjoy!
Aug 2026 · textlog.cc · its alternatives →
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Brizzly▲167Like Twitter but by yourself. The next big social network.
2018 · brizzly.com · its alternatives →
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Extremely simple note-taking and blogging without any sign up required. Create your own online notebook in seconds.
2023 · notepin.co · its alternatives →
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Create a blog with only Google Docs
2018 · youdontneedwp.com · its alternatives →
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William▲176The easiest blogging platform out there. Boost your SEO.
2019 · storychief.io · its alternatives →
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Dev community that lets you blog on your domain for free
2020 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →
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Extremely simple note-taking and blogging without any sign up required. Create your own online notebook in seconds.
2019 · notepin.co · its alternatives →
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Greetings, creator here! I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch. After seeing https://charm.sh a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app. Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and…
2022 · lists.sh · its alternatives →
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Letterpad▲140A Blogging Platform without any paywall and distractions.
2022 · letterpad.app · its alternatives →
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