Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Dorm Room Tycoon - How to Build a Community
Matt Mullenweg on the ecosystem around WordPress
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dorm Room Tycoon - How to Build a Community launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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How to build communities of entrepreneurs
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Secret strategies for successful online communities
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Tim Ferris interviews Wordpress founder, Matt Mullenweg.
2015 · tim.blog · its alternatives →
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Blnkk▲202An online community for crowdsourcing your startup needs
2015 · blnkk.com · its alternatives →
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Want to know where WordPress is heading? Listen to this.
2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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Reactor▲86Build mobile apps with deep WordPress integration
2015 · reactor.apppresser.com · its alternatives →
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Squarespace▲32Wordpress for ppl who don't have time 2 deal w/ Wordpress
2014 · squarespace.com · its alternatives →
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Awesome open source book to manage communities in general
2016 · artofcommunityonline.org · its alternatives →
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How do you build a community AND conference, from nothing?
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Twitter layoffs, npm Orgs, how to keep up.
2015 · its alternatives →
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How to help more people discover software development
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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The history of WordPress, working remotely, and more.
2016 · its alternatives →
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We’re building Poppin — a browser extension that turns any webpage into a shared social space. Users can chat in real-time, leave post, or host voice spaces with their communities on any URL. It’s like turning the internet into a live Twitch stream or Reddit communities — for every url of the web without requiring integration. Currently, we’re in invite-only beta and collecting feedback from early users. Try it out and let us know what feels smooth, what feels broken, and what you’d want more of. Intro Video: https://x.com/poppin_so/status/1843651417783054776 Request…
2025 · poppin.so · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, A buddy and I have been working on a side project in the online community space in our free time over the past few years. Our platform is a sort of Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid. Decided to do a soft launch today in light of all the recent Reddit news. Community features: 1. Customizable discussion boards. Community owners can setup threaded discussion boards for different topics related to their niche. Say a user creates a community for a niche like "Cars", under that community they could create different discussion boards for sub categories like "Car-mods", "Car-photos",…
2023 · sociables.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, we're reposting from our previous Show HN about 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644205 Since then we've grown to more than 5k users across nearly 1k groups and have sent out more than 100k update prompts. The premise is simple - social media stinks and you either don't see updates from people you care about (they never post) or you miss the updates (flooded by other people's updates or an algorithm that downplays an update you'd care about even if it's seemingly unimportant). And we're ramen profitable (more so now that we've migrated the majority…
May 2026 · togetherletters.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · flawlessapp.io · its alternatives →
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