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24 alternatives to Bleuit – A Recursive Reddit

Hi, I wanted to make a social media website that did things a little differently. I'd describe it like something between reddit and Hacker News, but with a different approach to browsing and submitting content. I learned nextjs in the process of this so it is pretty plain and simple. However if there's interest I might spend more time on it. Thanks for checking it out! See here for more on how it works - https://bleuit.io/about

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bleuit – A Recursive Reddit launched in 2023; 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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    Hi HN, this is a platform (Discuit, pronounced "diskette") I've been working on for about two years. I initially built it for a niche demographic (my native country). But now with Reddit going dark and people looking for a new place to migrate to, I'm doing a quick launch today. A few quick things: 1. I don't believe federated platforms will ever become mainstream. They have a whole host of problems, not the least of which is that they're too complicated for most people to use. This platform is not, therefore, federated. 2. I don't know what the best way of monetizing a thing like this is. I…

    2023 · discuit.net · its alternatives →

  3. 3IB

    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 →

  4. 4

    Crowdfunding projects backed by Reddit community

    2014 · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Reddit-inspired lorem ipsum filler text generator

    2016 · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    I built this for myself. I make videos, and my biggest bottleneck is figuring out what to say to my audience without staring at a blank page. So I built Scriptmine: a tool that listens to Reddit conversations in my niche, finds high-signal topics, and turns them into scripts. How it works: - Track subreddits and discussions relevant to a niche - Rank topics by engagement/momentum - Generate a hook/body/CTA draft in a chosen voice/format

    Feb 2026 · scriptmine.ai · its alternatives →

  7. 7AD

    Over the past couple of years, I've been very impressed by Kale Davis's Hacker Newsletter and Peter Cooper's entire newsletter empire. They're clearly meeting people's need to stay caught up on industry news without spending their entire lives watching HN and Twitter. Their success has inspired me to try something similar. So I've just begun publishing a JS newsletter called "A Drip of JavaScript." Rather than focus on the latest JS news (which JavaScript Weekly already does rather well), each issue is just a short article about some aspect of programming in JavaScript. The newsletter is…

    2013 · designpepper.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8SA

    Hey guys, I made a post about this about a week ago and was told to create a Show HN post. So here we are! Squabblr is a hybrid that takes Twitter style posting and combines it with Reddit style commenting. It came up from a personal want where I liked using Twitter to see what people I'm interested in are up to, but found that the reply system left a lot to be desired. It's very hard to have or follow conversations with their UI. While Reddit provided a great commenting system but didn't support following people very well (or had much usage of it at all). So I decided to create Squabblr.…

    2023 · squabblr.co · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Hi HN, I’ve been building a small social network where the feed is always chronological — newest posts come first, always. It’s not 100% algorithm-free (there’s still basic filtering to avoid spam or abuse), but the core idea is that every user has a real chance to be seen, even with zero followers. It’s lightweight, works well on mobile, and supports both posts and comments. Most of the content is currently in Portuguese, since it started with a Brazilian audience, but the interface is mostly language-neutral. I’d love any feedback on the concept, UX, performance, or anything else. Thanks!

    2025 · qqpost.netlify.app · its alternatives →

  10. 10
    Discuit▲22

    An easy to use Reddit Alternative, without enshittification.

    2023 · discuit.org · its alternatives →

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    I know there’s a growing community of people who see how damaging short-form media is for our attention spans, yet every major platform keeps pushing more of it down our throats. That’s why I built a platform entirely for long-form media, a place where people can dive into ideas deeply to gain real knowledge. I don’t expect this to resonate with everyone, but if you’re also craving a space that’s anti-brain rot and pro-deep thinking, you might like it. I can't tell you how excited I am about this! You can try it out using the link. Does not require sign up

    2025 · rhomeapp.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12SA

    Hey HN, A buddy and I have been working on a side project in the online community space in our free time over the past few years. Our platform is a sort of Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid. Decided to do a soft launch today in light of all the recent Reddit news. Community features: 1. Customizable discussion boards. Community owners can setup threaded discussion boards for different topics related to their niche. Say a user creates a community for a niche like "Cars", under that community they could create different discussion boards for sub categories like "Car-mods", "Car-photos",…

    2023 · sociables.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13AM

    TLDR: I built a "quick and dirty " private social network for my friends, posted on Reddit and HN, got some interest so now have built it properly along with my brother. site link: https://intimost.com/login/ demo creds: [email protected] Demo123! Full version: I needed a social network where I can just send updates and nothing else. So I built it, my friends liked and now I have built it "for the world". Everything is private by default. - Text-only updates - No likes. Only views to acknowledge a post - [in development] Comments are private between the poster and…

    Oct 2025 · its alternatives →

  14. 14BT
  15. 15

    Hacker News Clone. https://forum.krehwell.com/. Contribute to krehwell/HeckarNews development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16RA

    My attempt to create a decentralised reddit using a merkle-dag and webrtc. Advice would be much appreciated. https://memesfortheparanoid.com

    2015 · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    The safest and lightest forum, powered by rust. Contribute to freedit-org/freedit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built Campfiree because I got tired of platforms treating users as products. On Campfiree, users submit feature ideas and vote on them weekly. Moderation is handled by randomly selected community juries, no corporate team deciding what's acceptable. It's free with ads or $7/year without (free during beta). We have 55 users so far and ship features every week based on what the community votes for. I'd love honest feedback on the model and the product.

    2025 · campfiree.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19TR
  20. 20ST

    Hey HN. We've been working on a community platform/Reddit alternative with a focus on building a place for people to create communities instead of just buckets of posts. We want communities to feel like a place where you want to hang out instead of just scroll. At a high level, our platform is like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We took all of the best features from each of those platforms and combined them under one umbrella. Here's a list of the core features of each community: 1. Customizable discussion boards: Community owners can set up threaded discussion boards for…

    2023 · sociables.substack.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Simplified ‘reddit’ (popular social-media site) clone. Made using MERN stack. - amand33p/reddish

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22IC

    Hey all! Super excited to share this! If you're familiar with the r/InternetIsBeautiful sub-reddit, then you'll enjoy this. I built the website as a fun side project project over the weekend, and it re-imagines what r/internetisbeautiful would be if it was a newsletter. It's meant to be a completely free and community generated resource of the most interesting, useful and awesome websites from the depths of the internet. The list is tiny right now and I would love to hear your recommendations of websites that you think we should include. Hope you enjoy it, and would love to hear…

    2023 · internetisbeautiful.co · its alternatives →

  23. 23PR

    www.schmeebs.com I built this site in two days. I tried to make it a fusion of Twitter + Digg in that people will be able to follow certain "domains" of news then be able to see popular stuff from there. Its as real time as it can be at this point. Would welcome any thoughts on it!

    2010 · its alternatives →

  24. 24MF

    Please have a look at www.socialeaks.com and tell me what you think. This is my first adventure in coding (my background is not CS). I started learning rails about a month ago via railstutorial.org. When I finished that, I felt the best way to continue learning would be to just build an app from scratch. I came up with this concept while observing how crazy the world had gone over WikiLeaks. I thought this was a funny idea. I also thought it would be fun to build! So, here I am. I built this in rails 3 and it is currently living on Heroku. It took me about two weeks to code, doing just about…

    2011 · its alternatives →

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