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Hummingbard is a platform for creating decentralized communities that runs on the Matrix protocol. Launched in 2021, it enables users to build and manage community spaces with distributed infrastructure rather than… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Comradery▲291

    Threaded discussions and real-time chat for your community!

    2020 · comradery.com · its alternatives →

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    A marketplace of simple to use no-code APIs

    2019 · phantombuster.com · its alternatives →

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    Spectrum▲791

    Build better communities

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Customizable community platform

    2022 · meltingspot.io · its alternatives →

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    Commune▲262

    Community platform built for customer success teams

    2022 · commune.us · its alternatives →

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    Build custom bots for Discord with no-code

    2022 · dots.community · its alternatives →

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    Everything you need to build & manage a thriving community

    2018 · forj.ai · its alternatives →

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    Backspace▲298

    The easiest way to build and monetize your online community

    2022 · 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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    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…

    May 2026 · freenet.org · its alternatives →

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    Bind▲420

    Build a product driven community

    2023 · bind.ie · 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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    Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await

    2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Matrix-CRDT connects the worlds of Yjs [1] (a proven, high performance CRDT) with that of Matrix.org [2]. It started as an experiment, asking myself; can we store "state updates of a datastore" in Matrix instead of chat messages? Now, I'm convinced it's actually a really powerful combination to develop real-time, collaborative software. I'm using it for a new project and so far didn't have to write a backend yet. Matrix takes care of a lot of stuff: Authentication, E2EE, federation, hosting, etc. - so I can focus on the client. I love the ideas of Local First [3] software. Personally,…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Burb▲253

    How creators grow community

    2022 · burb.co · its alternatives →

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    Open-source protocol for a decentralized, user-owned web

    2024 · pubky.org · its alternatives →

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    All-in-one customized networking platform for communities

    2021 · hivebrite.io · its alternatives →

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    Clean the irrelevant Discord servers

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    A large part of our (Real Kinetic's) business is helping organizations implement platform engineering, but we've found the existing tooling to be lacking. For IaC, Terraform state becomes a pain because TF treats infrastructure as "one-shot" commands. The Kubernetes controller model provides a nicer approach to managing infrastructure, but the tooling here is also lacking. For configuration management, Helm just doesn't really scale with complexity, nor does Kustomize. For resource orchestration, Crossplane is a step in the right direction but still has challenges and limitations. As a…

    2025 · koreo.dev · its alternatives →

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    Automate crypto trading with your own market making bot

    2019 · hummingbot.io · its alternatives →

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    Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS - matanolabs/matano

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An Ethereum-based governance DApp.

    2018 · kriptokoshelek.ru · its alternatives →

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    Build a free community on Discourse

    2024 · beta.buildcivitas.com · its alternatives →

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