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24 alternatives to Hacker News clone using Remix and React

Hi all, author here. This project was a pleasure to do, Remix has very good developer experience. But further than that it's actually a really good way to develop applications, it's a mix of old meets new where the paradigm encourages you to take advantage of web standards for data fetching (forms, links, a tags). And it turns out that it's actually an optimal way to develop simple or even complex web applications which can deploy in a number of runtime environments (including edge workers). So you can get an insanely fast website for users. Note that this project is not necessarily an…

This project is a Hacker News clone built with Remix and React, designed as a reference implementation and starting point for developers. It demonstrates how Remix combines web standards with modern development… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacker News clone using Remix and React launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Remix▲413

    Next gen full stack web framework

    2022 · remix.run · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    A way to make web apps with just HTML & CSS

    2020 · remaketheweb.com · its alternatives →

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    100% open-source React framework to build web apps

    2023 · its alternatives →

  4. 4CR

    I made this because building React components from scratch is super annoying. Most visual elements already exist on the web, and I figured there should be a way to leverage that. I hope it's useful!

    2022 · sample-code.aspect.app · its alternatives →

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    deco.cx 2.0▲1,078

    Build web apps 10x faster with Deno, JSX, TS & Tailwind

    2024 · decocms.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I made this free browser extension that modernizes the Hacker News design. I previously launched Modern for Wikipedia [1] here back in December, and it seemed like the obvious next choice to build one for HN too! So I've taken what I learned from building that, and have spent all my spare time this year building Modern for HN. I realize this won't be for everyone, but it was a fun project to work on, and I'm really happy with the result so far. Hope you like it too! Lots more planned for future updates, and suggestions welcome :) [1]…

    2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →

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    21st.dev▲1,211

    I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!

    2025 · 21st.dev · its alternatives →

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    Locofy.ai▲720

    Hey there, I am Honey - Co-founder at Locofy. We, along with other makers, have been building Locofy.ai to help massively accelerate the builders - the designers, developers, product managers & founders, and we're excited to share it today with the HN Community. Locofy.ai simply converts designs into production-ready frontend code for web and mobile apps. It adapts to your preferred design tools, tech stack, and workflows with ease and lets you launch upto 4x faster, while letting designers design the way they want and giving high-quality responsive code that developers love. With this…

    2022 · locofy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I created this lib in the need of a simple and tiny framework to easily do AJAX-style navigation / replacement of fragments in the page, in a web application. For people who don't want to use client-side-rendering and complex frameworks à la React, there are nowadays a few "HTML-over-the-wire" libraries, like HTMX, Unpoly or this super-tiny one Swap.js :) One other key thing is that no external tool is needed: no bundler, no webpack, no TypeScript compiler, no minification needed. Just write HTML, JS (+ your preferred server-side language: PHP, Python, etc.) and it works. The…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10TR
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    Clone any website into clean code. Free & open source

    Jul 2026 · ditto.site · its alternatives →

  12. 12RA

    I wanted to have a framework that would let me build web apps faster than ever before. I didn’t care if it was a little hacky or didn’t use best practices — I wanted to be able to get a multi-user application out the door in hours instead of months. I researched the CMS space for months before deciding to build something from scratch. My goal was to be 90% done building a web app once I had the static HTML and CSS finished. I’m not a big fan of building out API endpoints over and over again for every new app, fiddling with a database, or doing lots of config. What I ended up with was a…

    2020 · its alternatives →

  13. 13HN

    Although the page itself is more just fun to have made and look at (I like the flip sound), the fun part is how I made it to verify the (and I hate to say it) vibe host service I've been working on. The recent flip board back and forth's on Twitter (X) are what inspired me. The idea here is that people (like me or you) can create something neat like this, and others can remix it, change it and publish their own version. This is that all in action and it worked great. I wrote a blog about it (the blog is dogfooding, it's just an app hosted on quickish that uses the built in db lib). For the…

    Jun 2026 · popflame.quickish.space · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm Nate, the creator of Tamagui. One is a React framework that does two things differently in hopes of simplifying how we build websites and apps: 1. It unifies React Native and React web with typed file system routing by making Vite able to serve RN. This lets you share (or diverge) your code in a simpler way for cross-platform apps. 2. We've partnered with Zero (https://zerosync.dev) to make local-first work well. We've been building a solution in One that makes Zero supporting server rendering, without waterfalls, and with seamless server/client handoff. ---…

    2024 · onestack.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News Clone. https://forum.krehwell.com/. Contribute to krehwell/HeckarNews development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn a design from any website into your own

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    ✨ Hacker News, but refined — Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better - plibither8/refined-hacker-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    React-powered Hacker News client. Contribute to insin/react-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deco IDE▲358

    Best IDE for building React Native apps

    2016 · decosoftware.com · its alternatives →

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    A protip by sergiotapia about css, html, and hackernews.

    2012 · coderwall.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21IM

    Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (https://github.com/aidenybai/million). The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides. This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs / plugin incompatibility / etc. If you have any suggestions, I'd be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it! You can spin up the demo here >> https://stackblitz.com/github/aidenybai/million-react-compat

    2022 · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    An NX Hacker News clone with real-time updates and animations. - nx-js/hackernews-example

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23AH

    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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    Free and open‑source, stop designing. Describe.

    Apr 2026 · nodewave.io · its alternatives →

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