Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blogshare launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1HN
   Hacker News user blogroll▲937

   I saw this [0] pretty cool thread by user revskill, and wanted a quicker way to search through it, but also to keep them all in one place so I can read them at my leisure whenever I get time. Right now is like 60 lines of Ruby using Nokogiri, but I will certainly look into it further down the line and improve the list. There's a cronjob checking the thread every 12 hours but I will eventually shut that down and it will become static after that. There are some really awesome blogs in there. I really recommend going through the list, it made my day. [0] "Could you share your personal blog…

   2023 · dm.hn · its alternatives →

2. 2
   HackerBuzz▲68

   Hacker News trend visualization

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   HNwatcher▲136

   Track keywords and users on Hacker News

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   HackerWeb▲88

   A simple and readable Hacker News app

   2016 · hackerwebapp.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   HackerBracket▲219

   A community for sharing hacks

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Postatic▲196

   Create your own HackerNews

   2014 · postatic.com · its alternatives →

7. 7HN
   Hacker News comments for your blog▲7

   2020 · hndisq.xyz · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Slack-HN▲99

   Read Hacker News right from Slack

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9HN
   Hacker News Comments▲189

   2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Hacker News Search▲92

    a faster hnsearch

    2014 · hn.algolia.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    HNSlack▲135

    Get the front page of Hacker News in your Slack, every day

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News▲151

    2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    hn.▲78

    Yet another client to browse Hacker News

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Newsit▲63

    Find the discussion around the page you're looking at!

    2018 · newsit.benwinding.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Newscombinator▲115

    Like Google-News, but for hackers

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Hacker News-cli▲82

    Browse Hacker News from your Terminal

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17HS
    Hacker Search – real time search for Hacker News▲32

    2017 · hacker-search.net · its alternatives →

18. 18HN
    Hacker News homepage with links to comments ordered by most recent▲7

    2024 · observablehq.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    DiscoveringBlogs▲5

    The coolest way to discover new blogs.

    2017 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Hacker News Blogroll▲11

    This was submitted about 9 months ago as a Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36605493), people was generally favorable to it, but I never got around to do anything else with it past the first few days. I recently rescued a Github account I had, so I'm putting the source of the Rails app over there in case anyone wanted to do anything with it. The site still runs on https://dm.hn Generates about 2 to 3 GB bandwidth usage every month, and the blogs are still checked every day for new content. I must say, I still visit every week and find interesting entries…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Stack Exchange Engineering Blog▲7

    2015 · blog.stackexchange.com · its alternatives →

22. 22HR
    Hackrdot – Read Hacker News, R/Programming and Slashdot in One Place▲8

    2019 · hackrdot.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Blogscout▲5

    Your blogs reading assistant

    2017 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    hacker▲7

    Hacker News in the Command Line.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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