Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
(TL;DR: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png) While digging around in drawers that hadn't been touched for decades, I found a wonderful piece of history. The Palm Treo 600 [1] was the Mercedes-Benz of the cellphone 10 years ago, and I was lucky enough to rediscover one.[2] So I decided to restore it to working order, slapping in a T-Mobile SIM[3] and a fresh battery. It worked! It could browse the Internet[4], send/receive text messages[5], make phone calls...[6] The onboard browser even passed Acid1[7,8] and could do some level of JavaScript![9] Unfortunately, most websites…
This is a documentation of a personal restoration project where someone revived a decade-old Palm Treo 600 smartphone and discovered it could browse the internet and run basic JavaScript, but encountered unusual… 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' “most unique support email of 2014” launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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My pandemic project was to find, restore and organize scattered and archived remnants of Palm/HP's mobile webOS platform to help keep these delightful little devices alive.
2022 · webosarchive.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · stavros.io · its alternatives →
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A mashup for finding repairable smartphones that are supported by custom Android ROMs.
2020 · sustaphones.com · its alternatives →
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MobileGo▲80The first crypto-centric mobile gaming platform
2017 · sunwinc.co.com · its alternatives →
- 9HN
2014 · hnmobile.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Wikipedia Mobile▲136Big update for iOS: now with shareable "fact cards"
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Your mobile phone still works the same way it did ten years
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
- 12Textable▲124
Why not make a useful LLM wrapper for once? Websites are officially over. Teletext is the future? Made at my favourite kind of hackathon - Stupid Hackathon.
Nov 2025 · textable.live · its alternatives →
- 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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In honor of it's 10th Anniversary, this Monday
2017 · internethistorypodcast.com · its alternatives →
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We at Emerge Tools (YC W21) recently released open source Hacker News apps for both iOS and Android. The apps use the latest SwiftUI and Compose frameworks and are entirely native. Our goal is to help dogfood our products, but more importantly our team just enjoys reading HN every day and wanted an app to hack on and call our own. :) We are still missing some features but should otherwise be pretty solid. And open to any contributions. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-by-emerge/id674092... Android:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20IR
Any suggestions are appreciated, stack utilizes Gluestack UI ,Expo, React Native, and Cloudflare Pages. There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard's spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know. Please note, this is just a prototype, it still has a lot of features to be included. I'd like to learn more about how people use HN and how Hacked could help, where other HN clients failed.
2025 · hacked.unlace.app · its alternatives →
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An easy and beautiful way to read Hacker News on your phone.
2018 · its alternatives →
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AvantGo▲11Get webpage updates synced to your PalmPilot or PocketPC
2014 · en.wikipedia.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN folks, I built a simple, minimal and 'swipe'able HN interface to glance through HN posts on mobile. It is a PWA, so feel free to install and use it. Any feedback is welcome! Cheers!
2025 · newz.dev · its alternatives →
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