Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Draft – If Hacker News and Medium Had a Child
Hi guys ! We are a team of four engineering student in Paris that tried to create a more active and slower experience for news reading. We read Hacker News and Medium daily and got inspired by their user experiences. We think that combined, they could benefit from each other. So we built Draft, a community-driven news app. Here are the main functionalities : - You can post articles you liked by submitting their links. - The articles in the feed are ordered by the community, you can up-vote the ones you found interesting. - Each article has a "Discussion Space" where you can share your…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Draft – If Hacker News and Medium Had a Child launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
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Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis! To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout! Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass…
2024 · hackerherald.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, I love HN! I wanted to extend the same aesthetic and community towards things beyond tech-related news. I thought it would be cool to get the same quality of community gathered around the latest and greatest research coming out. Let me know what you guys think of what I have so far. It's still early so there are probably bugs and other quality issues. If there's any features missing that you'd want let me know. ALSO, if any of you are familiar with the map of the territory of any particular field, please let me know! Would love to pick your brain and to come up with a 'most…
2024 · papertalk.xyz · its alternatives →
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2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
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Draft.js▲166A framework for building rich text editors in React
2016 · facebook.github.io · its alternatives →
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I tried to replicate the minimal design of hacker news. A small pet project I wanted to do after getting frustrated with the politics and dumb down conversations the film communities have on X/twitter, instagram and other social platforms have. I'll try to update the landing page with more links, feel free to check it out and judge.
2024 · newyorkdailyinquirer.com · its alternatives →
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A community to share rough drafts & improve your writing
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hey my name is Crisa and this is my first post here on HN. I love this site and it inspired me to build a clone of it for my newsletter. Instead of having a boring landing page, I hope to gather articles, blogs, interesting projects on my own platform. I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad so that I can improve the site. Email: gazcrisa (at) gmail (dot) com
2023 · gptroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion, I’ve always been too scared to post or comment. Which is why 1. this is my first real Hacker News submission 2. my friend Michael and I built "Fake" Hacker News, a place to post and see what AI-generated HN comments might say. Here’s a video of me using fakeHN to test this very submission: https://www.loom.com/share/4b9f4f9d7c77489a86baeb92ec55a1ed?... And an example of one of our generated posts:…
2023 · fakehn.com · its alternatives →
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Lately I've felt exhausted due to the deluge of AI/GPT posts on hacker news, and have seen similar grumblings. I threw together this frontend that filters out anything with the phrases AI, LLM, GPT, or LLaMa for use until the hype dies down a bit. Before anyone asks, yes I did try to use ChatGPT to help, and while the code it provided was helpful, it needed some heavy bug-fixing. Edit: One other note I forgot to mention. The favicon is generated by Stable Diffusion, I asked it to generate an "Aritificial Intelligence Favicon", and then I added the red circle with line through it.
2023 · save-buffer.github.io · its alternatives →
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Greetings, Hacker news community, Amidst the ongoing changes brought by COVID-19, short-form video content has become increasingly popular. However, many of us find ourselves watching content that doesn't add any real value to our lives. As a person who highly values quality content, I aimed to create a solution that helps people discover informative and engaging articles. Introducing Reader! When a friend of mine mentioned the struggles of finding reach for their blog, I knew I had to offer a helping hand. Reader curates articles from over a thousand sources, providing easy access to…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Random Hacker News front page generated with AI
2025 · thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks! This is a project that I've been working in my free time for the past few months. It's a news aggregator that uses AI to select relevant articles and summarize them. The default sources are frameworks and libraries' updates, popular HN topics, and languages' subreddits threads that make past a certain threshold. You can run a local instance (needs an OpenAI key) and customize it with your own sources, and adjust the prompt as well. The resulting website can be browsed at https://dev-radar.com/ My next experiment will be with local news. I'm building some feeds with…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, resilient, isomorphic hacker news clone in ~1k lines of rust. - ivanceras/hackernews-sauron
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted a Hacker News mobile app that could quickly give me AI summaries of the articles, but I couldn’t find one that did it well, so I built one. It's available on both Android and iOS and includes all the features you would expect, such as dark and light mode, keeping read history, bookmarking posts and comments, and searching posts with date filters etc. I'd love to hear your thoughts and how I can improve it!
2025 · sudofish.com · its alternatives →
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A year and a half after I published https://HackYourNews.com, I've rewritten it to be neater and added support for more news sources. HackYourNews.com v1 had a great response on HN [1] and consistently sees ~2k weekly unique visitors. There were many long-standing requests that I wanted to fulfill (thanks for your patience!): a proper dark mode, correct rendering on mobile devices, and more cogent summaries. This rewrite is the result. gpt-4o-mini reduces the cost of summarization to an absurd degree, so it's now sustainable to keep this free service going! Someday, I hope to use…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Think of HackerNews, but only for AI content. Did build this out of the wish for easier discoverability of new technologies in the AI/ML space. Obviously, so far only a tiny small community, but maybe a few of you find it nice to be around and want to post a link there every now and then :)
2023 · news.aiapipro.com · its alternatives →
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Aug 2026 · sprinklz.io · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I built HackLens, a modern Android/IOS app for browsing Hacker News with a cleaner and smoother reading experience. Why I built it I love Hacker News, but wanted: a cleaner reading experience better topic discovery modern UI lightweight performance So I built HackLens. Key features 1. Clean, modern UI inspired by minimal reading apps 2. Fast browsing of Hacker News stories 3. AI-powered summaries to quickly grasp key points 4. Read full articles directly from the source 5. Trending stories (last 1h, 6h, or 24h) 6. Built-in search to find stories and topics 7. Topic…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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