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24 alternatives to Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs

Hi, my name is Bill. I’m a software engineer based in London. This is a blog about software development.

Blogosphere is a discovery platform for independent technical blogs that launched in April 2021. It helps readers find and explore writing from individual tech bloggers rather than major publications. The site is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    Hey HN, Blog discovery is a problem [0] due to the decentralized nature of online writing. Everyone writes on their own site or platform, and there’s no central place that brings everything together. Google results prioritize large media publications over blogs, so we need something else. Blog Surf is an attempt to organize all of the great online writing done by individuals. I launched this project last year as a directory of personal blogs [1], but have now rebuilt it from scratch into a full-text search engine for blog posts. You can search for blog posts, and filter by publish date and…

    2022 · blogsurf.io · its alternatives →

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    Open-source collection of tech blogs

    2022 · tech-blogs.dev · its alternatives →

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    Switch from Medium to your own blog in a few minutes - mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog

    2019 · github.com · 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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    Launch a blog on your domain in minutes & free

    2025 · blogbuster.so · its alternatives →

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    Postleaf▲260

    Simple & beautiful open source blogging platform.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    diff.blog▲168

    A platform to discover and follow amazing developer blogs 🚀

    2019 · diff.blog · its alternatives →

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    Blogin v2▲156

    Mix of Medium and WordPress, but for internal communication

    2024 · blogin.co · its alternatives →

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    Grow your blog as a developer without an existing audience

    2020 · bloggingfordevs.com · its alternatives →

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  12. 12LS

    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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    Bloggi▲168

    A simple blogging platform

    2019 · bloggi.co · its alternatives →

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    Discover the best engineering content from top tech companies, conferences, and indie blogs.

    2022 · devblogs.co · its alternatives →

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    You simply: 1. Connect your device. 2. Create a top-level `handwritten.blog` folder. 3. Every new notebook in that folder becomes a draft on https://handwritten.blog/ I hope this eventually obviates the need to look at the ugly upload interface you have to use to now upload your writing.

    Jul 2026 · handwritten.blog · its alternatives →

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    Inspired by the "Ask HN: Share your personal site" last week, I finally came around and built a thing I wanted for a long time: a simple website to randomly explore all the awesome personal blogs without having to subscribe to them all. So this is what I built over the weekend. You click a button and indieblog.page will redirect you to a random page from a personal page... I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

    2022 · indieblog.page · its alternatives →

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    Create a blog in seconds

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Postpace▲125

    Productivity platform for writers, bloggers & teams

    2020 · its alternatives →

  20. 20BH

    Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS! There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README. [1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata: if ( 3 > 0 + !!blog.title + (blog.desc.length > 40) + !!blog.about + !!blog.now +…

    2023 · blogs.hn · its alternatives →

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    Penify▲168

    Blog platform to create your own blog effortless.

    2024 · penifyapp.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22AB

    2020 · scribbble.io · its alternatives →

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    diff.blog is the home page of the developers. Join diff.blog to keep updated with the blogs of developers from all over the internet.

    2019 · diff.blog · its alternatives →

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    The easy way to host your website or blog

    2021 · 1mb.co · its alternatives →

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