Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet). The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River[1], our decentralized group chat and Delta - a decentralized CMS. Users have already started to build their own apps on Freenet including games, and we have some interesting apps in development like Atlas, a search/recommendation engine. Architecturally, this new Freenet is a global, decentralized key-value store where keys are webassembly…
Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for building decentralized applications using a global key-value store powered by WebAssembly contracts. It enables developers to create distributed apps without central servers, with… 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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Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported…
2023 · non.io · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Access files on the decentralized, unblockable torrent swarm and visit links using Handshake domains. Decentralized internet is here. - publiusfederalist/federalist
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity. This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’ve been working on a new version of Freenet for the last couple of years. The original Freenet dates back to the early 2000s; this is a ground-up rewrite in Rust and is intended as a general-purpose platform for building decentralized systems. The alpha has been running since shortly before Christmas and has been gradually stabilized over the last few weeks, though it is still definitely alpha quality. Freenet is a decentralized key-value store where keys are WebAssembly contracts. These contracts define what values can be associated with a key and how those values are updated. Web…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Peerdium▲155World's first decentralised P2P publishing platform
2018 · peerdium.vishnuks.com · its alternatives →
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Over the past couple of months, I've been working on connet. At this point, it is working pretty smoothly (in what I use it for), so I wanted to share it with more people and see what they think. I know many other similar/reverse proxy solutions exist - like https://github.com/fatedier/frp, https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole, and a bunch more you can find at https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. However, I wanted to try and put my own little peer-to-peer twist on it. Thanks for checking it out, and sharing any…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to Freechains/README development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · git.sr.ht · its alternatives →
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2014 · jack.minardi.org · its alternatives →
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Freeport is a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace for rides, services and goods. No middleman, no commission, no account — your keys, your price.
Jul 2026 · ptrinh.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, This is a site where users can submit content and the shortest SHA256 value of nonce+content among them will make the site display the content. Very basic, without a blockchain. It's a static site with WebRTC and peer-to-peer. Why? I wanted r/place (Reddit canvas where users collaborate on a pixel grid), but with proof of work. This is my progress so far. It's a WebRTC app with peer to peer connectivity that forwards the best hashed values to other users, which verify them, display them and pass them on. There are many many improvements to be done (especially I should probably…
2024 · tropical.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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2018 · peerdium.com · its alternatives →
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Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite - torrent-net/README.md at master · lmatteis/torrent-net
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we build an open-source operating system extension for orchestrating robot swarms fully decentralized. This first beta version allows you to create fully decentralized robot swarms. The system will set up a wireless mesh network and run a p2p networking stack on top of it, such that nodes can interact with each other through various abstractions using our SDKs (Rust, Python, TypeScript) or a CLI. We hope this is a step toward better inter-robot communication (and a fun project if you have a few Raspberry Pis lying around). Our mesh network is created by B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv and we’ve…
2025 · docs.p2p.industries · its alternatives →
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I've been trying to write my "go on rails" framework for years. I never quite got it like I wanted. There is gin and echo and all sorts of other frameworks and patterns but I finally found something I really like: /foo/ /foo/bar/ /foo/bar/more/ That's it. Just three levels and all my controllers get passed in what's between the / with var names first, second, third. In order to really make sure this framework could build something real I made a Hacker News clone. RemoteRenters.com is a HN just for articles about the remote work revolution…
2023 · remoterenters.com · its alternatives →
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A new web3 social network built on DeSo blockchain
2022 · overclout.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, auditable & elegant VPN, built with TLS mutual authentication and TUN. - twitchyliquid64/subnet
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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