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. Domains most frequently appearing on the front page in the past 21 days launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1HD
   HN Domain Leaderboard▲266

   2018 · hnleaderboard.com · its alternatives →

2. 2IS
   I Scraped Hacker News for TLD Popularity▲68

   2023 · v01.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   This▲147

   Each member can share just one link a day.

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Yesterday's Domains▲83

   Find 100s of hand-picked expired domains, daily

   2023 · yesterdaysdomains.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Yesterday's Domains▲77

   Find 100s of hand-picked expired domains, daily

   2023 · yesterdaysdomains.com · its alternatives →

6. 6DD
   Daily Dutch Auctions for Domains▲5

   2025 · 12name.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Domain Name Sanity▲65

   Make domains debuggable and predictable

   2016 · thoughtbot.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   A DNS server that removes the top million domains▲48

   2012 · millionshort.com · its alternatives →

9. 9HF
   HN front page trends of the past decade▲6

   HN Trends of the Past Decade

   2020 · nvbn.github.io · its alternatives →

10. 10FF
    Free, Front-end URL shortening on your own domain▲5

    2017 · chhota.ga · its alternatives →

11. 11ND
    New Domain Ninja: Discover websites being built on New TLDs▲6

    2014 · newdomain.ninja · its alternatives →

12. 12LO
    List of available domains▲7

    2017 · assafmo.gitlab.io · its alternatives →

13. 13DD
    Domain Drain▲6

    2021 · domaindrain.com · its alternatives →

14. 14HR
    HN4D: Recent Hacker News Front Page Activity▲7

    2012 · hn4d.com · its alternatives →

15. 15AT
    A tool to let you find websites that accept guest post▲9

    2019 · wuztr.com · its alternatives →

16. 16HA
    HNFP – A Tool That Tells You How Long a Post has Been on the Front Page▲9

    2014 · npmjs.org · its alternatives →

17. 17AS
    A searchable archive of Wikipedia's “Current Events” portal▲9

    2022 · pastevents.org · its alternatives →

18. 18
    The HN effect on Dictionary Domains (traffic and revenue numbers)▲12

    Last Wednesday (Jan 29th) I made a ‘Show HN’ post on Hacker News for Dictionary Domains. Seems it struck a chord; the post remained on the front page for the entire day! I thought it’d be interesting to write a recap of (1) the traffic that came in, (2) the number of domains bought

    2014 · blog.justinthiele.com · its alternatives →

19. 19ME
    Most edited news articles of the last 24 hours from around the web▲6

    2017 · transparentmetric.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    A little randomness for the Hacker News front page▲10

    2014 · limpet.net · its alternatives →

21. 21TU
    this URL goes to Google▲7

    2013 · 74.125.227.40 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Five Domains▲6

    Five High Quality Domains. Five Days a Week.

    2020 · aftermarket.com · its alternatives →

23. 23AG
    A guest blogging directory website▲5

    2020 · guestpost.directory · its alternatives →

24. 24AR
    Alternative Reddit Front-End▲6

    2020 · teddit.net · its alternatives →

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