Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Commentate – Join a live discussion with your favourite philosophers
I've always dreamed of listening in on conversations between legendary minds in art and philosophy. I created a couple "rooms" that allow us to join in on these conversations, even participate. Still very early, with so many interesting ideas I want to implement. I would also love for the foundation contexts for commentators to be "open-sourced." Link below for anyone curious about how the base narratives are referenced. https://github.com/cmteone/commentators
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Commentate – Join a live discussion with your favourite philosophers launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Clevr▲147My friend and i built this because we were trying to just learn things in a more fun and interactive way. We think there's a community we could build around this? And there's definitely a lot of work to do. Super curious to see what you guys think, and where we can make the learning experience better.
2025 · theclevr.com · its alternatives →
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Exploring the current art market vs "Big Art History"
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Parasocial▲204Listening to podcasts should be a joy. So let's get started.
Aug 2026 · parasocial.fm · its alternatives →
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Discussing podcast discovery & community w/ PH & Roman Mars
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Is it simply a product? And what makes it valuable?
2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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Watch Sam Altman's first lecture for How to Start a Startup, and participate in the discussion here: http://lect.io/#watch/CBYhVcO4WgI
2014 · lect.io · its alternatives →
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Got tired of my debates with my friend's ending in "I'm right bc I said so" so I made a platform where you can debate with your friend's(or a bot, recently added feature) about whatever you want, and after the debate is done a LLM judges who's more sound in logic. Gain points and climb the leaderboard! Feedback and criticism would be appreciated(there's a discord in there if you wanna talk more in depth) p.s.: I decided to use google acc sign in since it makes the whole thing easier to manage(live chatroom feature, etc.). I don't actually do anything with your emails
2025 · crs-prod-rankeddebate-l4dnggfaca-nn.a.run.app · its alternatives →
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Hello there! I hope you're doing well today! I wanted to share something with you. Recently I was on the hunt for the best way to journal daily. Well, I had this idea - what if I could feed all my daily entries to an AI (ChatGPT), and create a friendly, supportive character like Socrates or Simon Sinek? This way, I could ask any questions about my life and mental health, and get some amazing advice on how to improve myself! The results have been absolutely mind-blowing ! I even made a short GIF to show you how it works - check it out! - https://gifyu.com/image/SdHLH I've…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hey, guys and girls :) Please notice, that my intention is not to advertise my project here, but to ask for your advice. Long story short: we've noticed that it's very hard to "sum-up" any idea on one page and share it without using a blogging platform. Let's say you want to collect and present your point of view on "IA reaserch". You can write a blogpost or use social media to share your opinion (that would reach limited amount of people though). We really missed a tool that allows you to embed a lot of different resources on one page and than to share it with one link. This way you can…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Postroom▲2hello, while i was reading post id=49124218, it comes to my mind that too many people talking, this is interesting subject, but i cant read all, and its a mess to read all, its un organized, i felt like i entered an audeturiom where every body in the audeience is talking to someone, noisy place, i would love to hear all, i wish i could built a visualization web app of what been said, like short phrases summary of what every body said, also doing clustering of (similar logic ideas) all around, do innovative comments section, fun, ...etc sections, would love your feedback .
Aug 2026 · sudolaps.top · its alternatives →
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For years I’ve wanted to start a podcast to interview curious and passionate makers in the depths of their creative pursuits. I would love any feedback, a rating, and if you know anyone would would make a great guest, please let me know!
Dec 2025 · happymaking.art · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Anand, and I’m launching CQ2 (https://cq2.co) – a tool for thoughtful and coherent discussions. Discussions using existing written communication tools often turn into a tangle of sub-discussions around quotes, making it hard to follow. There's no clear view of all the comments in a specific sub-discussion and how the sub-discussion is related to its parent, forcing constant scrolling and hopping between comments to gather context for a meaningful response. On top of all that, it's tough to tell if any key points were overlooked. Meetings are hit-or-miss. When it comes to…
2024 · cq2.co · its alternatives →
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I've been lurking on HN for years. You know the drill: interesting headline, 200+ comments, you dive in thinking "I'll just skim for 5 minutes"... and an hour later you're 36 chambers deep in a thread about memory allocation patterns in Postgres and you've completely forgotten what the original article was about. I don't just want a "summary" (which usually just shortens the noise). I want the meta-consensus: "What is the actual trade-off being debated? Who is winning the argument? Why does this matter?" So I built HNSignals. Think of it less like a "summarizer" and more like a Chief of…
Jan 2026 · hnsignals.com · its alternatives →
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Podcast for those interested in Design, Philosophy & Arts.
2017 · its alternatives →
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What society thinks of some big philosophical questions
2017 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Me and my buddy made this in a weekend as an experiment in 1. building something quickly and putting it out there and 2. using AI in an interesting way; in this case a poetry judge. Our “judge” isn’t perfect, but the hope is that at least it’s a relatively fair system that everyone can be sure evaluates their work. Anyway, we wanted to see what the lovely people of HN think of it. Some background on the idea; I like poetry and thought it would be cool if there was a big competition with a large financial incentive that scales with the number of participants. Using AI as a judge allows…
2023 · acontestofwords.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I kept hearing about Lisp and why it was special but didn't have a great place to start. I wanted something self-contained that helped me develop intuition rather than fluency. My hope is this is helpful for casual programmers, professionals from other fields who interact with code, or engineers who haven't had much exposure to interpreters or compilers. Hope this helps anyone else who's curious about getting a sense of Lisp and what makes it special with a limited time investment! Feedback or other cool Lisp things welcome :)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Check out http://swrm.io Basically, we created a feedback platform, and launched it as a tool to allow designers to crowdsource feedback from other designers. The idea is that this tool would allow designers to improve, share knowledge, learn new skills, and consistently deliver their best work. There's a lot that still needs to get done, including making money, letting posts die out after a certain time, and making the site faster by generating image thumbnails. Any feedback would be appreciated and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Feel free to sign up. Thanks!
2012 · swrm.io · its alternatives →
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