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Products that do what gist.io, blogless writing for hackers does

1BP
Blogging Platform for Hackers▲16
2013 · logdown.com
2TD
Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers▲154
2016 · github.com
3WM
WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform▲337
2018 · writefreely.org
4HT
hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions▲160
2021 · github.com
5GI
Gitern is a Git host for hackers▲112
2020 · gitern.com
6HR
HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements.▲165
2012 · coderwall.com
7TA
TinyPress – A GitHub Blogging Platform▲93
2015 · tinypress.co
8DA
Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists▲60
2014 · bbc-news-labs.github.io
9SB
Simple-blogger – blog generated from GitHub project READMEs▲52
2020 · github.com
10HS
Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required▲70
2020 · hackerspring.com
11HN
Hacker News CLI, written in Go▲98
2014 · github.com
12CO
Code on Hacker News▲45
2018 · code.hn
13MW
My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers▲56
2014 · frontends.org
14FC
First Crack, a simple static blog engine in Python▲44
2019 · bitbucket.org
15HJ
heroku.json, our Sunday hack project▲74
2013 · github.com
16HF
Hackernews for Mac▲35
2013 · whimsyapps.com
17HH
Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation▲48
2013 · github.com
18LL
Lurker – lightweight terminal client for Hacker News▲11
2020 · github.com
19
Linkversity▲44
Onboard people to the codebase quickly
2025
20OS
Open-Source 95% Hacker News Clone – [Next.js and Node.js]▲14
2021 · github.com
21IA
IO – A minimalistic and anonymous editor▲30
2016 · bold.io
22RF
RSS for Hackers▲10
2020 · rss.pipedream.com
23MH
Modern Hacker News with custom userstyles▲21
2015 · github.com
24HN
Hacker News comments for your blog▲7
2020 · hndisq.xyz

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