Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to How to become a geek athlete in your social graph..
(This is output from the last night hackathon @likealittle hacker house) Simple micro-app that generates & shares fake run reports! It become handy if you: 1. dont have a tracking device 2. dont like running spam and want a social revenge 3. want to became an athletic star in your social graph http://become.geekletics.com/ Note: To create your own report, you'll need "advanced" hacking skill (its service for geeks ;) How? Really, no clue?? http://geekletics.com/run.html?runner=musHo&km=27.49&track=2 Enjoy!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. How to become a geek athlete in your social graph.. launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I…
2024 · its alternatives →
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The ultimate resource for starting profitable side projects
2020 · indiehackers.com · its alternatives →
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Touched Grass▲405I started giving away badges on X to people who touched grass just for fun and most of them loved it! So I decided to create a whole website about it. Process is simple: - Enter X username / url - Fetch Profile image and choose badge - Generates a badge page which can be shared with nice OG images The site is deployed on Vercel, with R2 and Browser rendering for OG images and data storage.
Dec 2025 · touched-grass.com · its alternatives →
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Makers Page▲119A daily leaderboard for maker launches. Submit your product, quote-tweet the launch post, and climb by real likes on X, not upvotes. Resets every day.
Feb 2026 · makers.page · its alternatives →
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There's been lots of discussion recently about finding other HNers to talk to / bounce ideas off / work with, some Google spreadsheets were set up to share details but they were soon vandalised. I had a spare afternoon yesterday (which turned into a long day) and here's the result: http://www.hackernewsers.com/ It's only open to people with HN accounts, it lets you post your biography, location, skills etc. Anyway, I hope you like it and find it useful.
2010 · hackernewsers.com · its alternatives →
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My cofounder and I have been working on a site called Fitocracy (www.fitocracy.com), which is a social game for fitness. The idea was very much inspired by our experiences growing up as nerds playing video games, later on discovering weightlifting, and drawing the parallel between working out and "leveling yourself up." XKCD has a pretty well known comic to this effect: http://xkcd.com/189/. We find that the metaphor of workout out as leveling up in a video game resonates with quite a few people, so Fitocracy is an attempt to bring that to life. On Fitocracy, tracking your workouts earns you…
2011 · xkcd.com · its alternatives →
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Create team and invite members based on skills in Hackathons
2019 · its alternatives →
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Forrest 2.0▲94Run, ride & race against friends and virtual opponents
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi yall! I've been using hacker news for a while but one of the things I started wanting recently was the ability to have alerts for any stories I post. The thing that pushed me over the edge was Hackclub's shipwrecked https://shipwrecked.hackclub.com/ (hackathon in the boston bay for anyone that can make 4 projects over the summer and get at least one of them to go viral). One of the options for "going viral" was to get to the front page of hacker news but I was constantly scared that I would miss it getting on there lol so I whipped up a quick slackbot to send alerts to a…
2025 · hn.dunkirk.sh · its alternatives →
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Hey there, First time posting on Hacker News in about 2 years! The reason I’m posting is that I thought I’d write about the product I’ve been building, in hopes it resonates with people. Why build yet another social app? Because I deleted almost all social media around 3/4 years ago as it was just net negative on my life. There was very little that was truly interesting, I didn’t care about looking good to other people and because of the ‘media’ and ads, the apps were all designed to make me spend too much time for what I was getting. I hated it and what it meant for people’s behaviour,…
2022 · oncircles.com · its alternatives →
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Ever wanted to track who unfollowed you last month? Or who followed your competitor last month? Or how your social graph is growing over time? SocialGrapple does this. I've been working on SocialGrapple for a few months (since stepping down from imoveyou.com, YC2010S), this week I got the core product to the point where I'm proud of it so I want to show it off: http://socialgrapple.com/ I wrote up a blog post with some screenshots that will get you an idea of what SocialGrapple looks like: "SocialGrapple snapshot: @limedaring's social graph growth after her HackerNews publicity"…
2011 · socialgrapple.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · hackerbody.com · its alternatives →
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The Quantcast Platform simplifies digital advertising by connecting brands to their audiences using real-time data from over 100M destinations.
2013 · quantcast.com · its alternatives →
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The ultimate profile page for athletes and influencers
2024 · pinned.page · its alternatives →
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I started running 5 years ago and it completely changed me. Recently, I decided to train for my first marathon and needed something more than just tracking my runs to motivate me. I noticed all the apps currently available are just trackers and route finders, but nothing has solved the problem of consistency. So I thought of combining the basic idea of the Forest app with running and created a small app for myself which would reward me with plants and trees for my runs. I am not a mobile developer but then i came across Capacitor. Since I knew Next.js and have been working with it for the…
2025 · runandgrow.com · its alternatives →
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