Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software
Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes.
Flarum is free, open-source forum software designed for communities of any size. It provides a fast, lightweight platform with built-in moderation tools, permission controls, and customization options through… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Flarum▲2A modern, open forum app built for vibrant communities
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim - nim-lang/nimforum
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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800+ community resources and Notion workbook for free
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Ron Efroni, CEO at Flox, and today we are releasing version 1.0 of our open source CLI, helping folks manage development environments everywhere.My own experience with development environments began with air-gapped systems, having to actually burn software to a CD to iterate over a very slow and expensive development cycle, sometimes reaching the server rack and realizing I have the wrong disk.... Fast forward to today and there are countless alternatives available backed by incredible compute resources, yet we somehow still find ourselves paying the price of long development…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of open-source, slim webapps that make very little use of javascript.
2017 · goodoldweb.com · its alternatives →
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Discourse 2.0▲291Civilized discussion for your community, redesigned ✨
2018 · blog.discourse.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we’re building Floro (https://floro.io), an open-source, offline-first visual version control system that allows you to merge and diff graphical content. Demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjixBNKUbM. We were a YC W21 startup (Cheqout) that originally worked on restaurant tech. We ended up pivoting after the pandemic and decided to build Floro due to a lot of problems we encountered while working on Cheqout. We struggled a lot with string content and dark mode, especially when it came to static assets. We were a cross-platform product, so…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Open source business application platform for fast development - openkoda/openkoda
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've found my SQL knowledge to be lacking, so I made a project that uses SQLite as a backend. As it is intended for self-hosting I aim to make it easy to set up and maintain. Getting it up & running takes no more than a few commands (bar setting up a proxy such as nginx, which is out of scope). I've set up a "demo" site at https://forum.agreper.com/ if you want to try out the UI.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Metabase Cloud▲237Fast, easy open source dashboards for everyone
2020 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scoutflo▲228The first-ever commercial open-source marketplace - for Free
2023 · atlas.scoutflo.com · its alternatives →
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I have created an open-source alternative to Mixpanel and will explain a bit about why I decided to do this. Mixpanel is a GREAT tool and quite easy to understand (compared to GA4 and similar). I have used Mixpanel extensively for one of my React Native apps, but the last invoice was $300, which was way over my budget. I think I was paying for MTU (monthly tracked users), which was around 7000-10k users. However, a downside of Mixpanel is that it is purely a product analytics tool; you don't get any basic web analytics similar to what GA4 or Plausible offers. Therefore, I have combined the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open source video conferencing system for tutors. Contribute to fmeringdal/nettu-meet development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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