Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CrowdRank
Hi HN. I built CrowdRank, a small web app where people vote through head-to-head matchups and the results become a live leaderboard. Backstory: A few years ago, while I was learning to code, I wanted to build a Tinder-style voting app to rank the funniest characters from The Office. I hit a lot of dead ends, mostly on the frontend, and abandoned it. Now with a bit more technical background i rebuilt the idea as a more general platform. The backend/API is Laravel, and I used AI heavily to help build the frontend because somehow centering a div still finds ways to humble me. What did I…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey, HN! You probably know that the ordering of products on Amazon, posts in FB, and search results in Google is personalized for each visitor, as it directly affects conversion, click rate and engagement. But not everyone can afford to hire an army of PhDs to squeeze every penny out of the ranking, and not everyone agrees on the current (im)balance between privacy and profits. So we built Metarank, an open-source and privacy-focused personalization engine. It can rerank in real-time any type of content, using only the data you allow, and optimize metrics you define. We made a lot of…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've been hacking on a project and figured I'd share it with the community. CrowdView is a search engine for niche forums and message boards (MetaFilter, HN, Reddit, and 3000+ forums). Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great content exists elsewhere. Lots of great information…
2023 · crowdview.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've been hacking on a project and figured I'd share it with the community. CrowdView is a search engine for discussion sites (forums, message boards, Discord, and Twitter for now). Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great content exists elsewhere. Lots of great information and…
2022 · crew-rho.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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2015 · deckrank.co · its alternatives →
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RankedVote▲82SurveyMonkey if it only did ranked-choice voting
2022 · rankedvote.co · its alternatives →
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Openvote▲131Crowd-voting platform, running a test for SF Election
2015 · openvote.com · its alternatives →
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Swelly 4.0▲137Collect opinions from your friends within seconds
2018 · swelly.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi my name is Chris, I'm the creator of Rank a Day. I don't know if it's just me but I love ranking things and discussing them like "Who's the best sports person?" or "What's the best Matt Damon film?", so I decided to create a simple web app that gives you a random topic to rank every day. Once you've selected your top 3 answers you can submit them, see how they compare against other peoples answers and share them on social media. I have a few Whatsapp groups I'm in and every morning we share our answers, it's just a really good conversation starter. I'd appreciate any thoughts and…
2024 · rankaday.com · its alternatives →
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VoteVid▲106Hey, I am Victor, a french student. I was tired of getting really bad recommandations from the algorithm, always the same videos, same topics. So I created a community-driven recommandation tool, with upvotes like Product Hunt or Hacker News. Looking for something to watch or want to share something you liked? Feel free to check the site, it's free, no account needed (unless you want to share or upvote a video).
Nov 2025 · votevid.com · its alternatives →
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Clickvote takes the hassle of building your own reaction components around your content. Showing real-time updates of likes, upvotes, and reviews between clients. Learn about your members through deep analytics. Deal with an unlimited amount of clicks per second. You can read the full article here: https://links.github20k.com/click-vote The open-source Library is here: https://github.com/clickvote/clickvote Please let me know your thoughts! Am I building something useless?
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Crowd-voting for elections. Turn your one vote into many
2016 · openvote.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off! I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.
2022 · search.feep.dev · its alternatives →
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Dotvoter▲89Discover and discuss what matters to your team.
2016 · dotvoterapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! About 1.5 years ago we published an idea on how to improve the Hacker News ranking algorithm (https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking...). The main idea was to counteract the rank-upvotes feedback loop by using attention as negative feedback. We received very valuable input from the HN community (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391659), and have since come up with something that we think could be a real contribution: the upvoteRate metric. upvoteRate is an estimate of how much more or less likely users are to…
2023 · its alternatives →
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GitRanks▲127Hi HN, I built GitRanks because I’ve always wanted a clear, fun way to see how my open-source work compares - both globally and right here at home. The app pulls in GitHub data to give every developer an at-a-glance “scorecard”, then rolls those into live leaderboards so you can: - Track rankings by stars, contributions and followers - Filter worldwide vs. your own country - Refresh daily - no waiting weeks to see your progress - Discover rising devs you’ve never heard of and follow their work Tech Stack: - Back: MongoDB | NestJS | BullMQ | GraphQL - Front: Next.js | Tailwind | Shadcn Data:…
2025 · gitranks.com · its alternatives →
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Free dating profile photo rating by real people — not AI. Upload two photos and find which one gets more matches on Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge.
2019 · facerank.app · its alternatives →
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TeamSort▲14Hi HN! Creator here. I built this because I noticed teams often need to quickly prioritize or rank items, but existing tools add too much friction to the process. This uses the Borda count algorithm to aggregate everyone's preferences into a single ranking. While simple voting works for yes/no decisions, sorting captures more nuanced preferences and helps find consensus, whether you're prioritizing feature requests or deciding where to grab lunch. The tool is completely frictionless - no signup required, and polls automatically expire after 24 hours to keep things clean. All data is…
2025 · teamsort.world · its alternatives →
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