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24 alternatives to I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated

Hey all, I've been working hard on my side project and will be trying to turn it into my main project now. Rated is a social rating platform for media, places and products. By having everything in one place, its easier to add friends, follow and compare ratings. There are cool data features like similarity scores between each users and predicted ratings for every item. The main aim is to help people discover the best content in a fun and social way. I've made a website (not that pretty yet) and launched on the app stores, but there's a long way to go. Still haven't properly validated the…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1
    Rated▲122

    Data-driven social rating platform for media, places + more

    2024 · rated.fun · its alternatives →

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    RateMe▲214

    Rate your friends, just like in Black Mirror ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

    2016 · rateme.social · its alternatives →

  3. 3AS

    I’ve been working on a social media web app for reviewing works of entertainment with the hopes to compete against Goodreads and Letterboxd. I started working on this two and a half years ago and it has taught me a lot about full stack development, from Vue, and REST APIs, to hosting with AWS. It’s still very much so a work in progress, but it’s functional and I’d love any feedback I can get. I know other options exist, but I couldn’t find one that I like that had all of the different mediums, and I’d rather have them all in one place. Likewise didn’t give me enough freedom with rating, and…

    2023 · telemonial.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4WD

    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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    Rated▲6

    Rate everything, connect with friends and discover the best

    2024 · rated.fun · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Social platform for discovering & recommending video games 🎮

    2018 · raterfox.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7RM
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    Hype Link▲111

    List links to social, streaming platforms, and more.

    2018 · hypel.ink · its alternatives →

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  10. 10IB

    Hey there HN ! I'm so excited to show you the platform I built! It's a product review website that's all about community and video reviews. I wanted to create a space where people could share their personal experiences and opinions on products, so others could make informed decisions based on real-life experiences. I noticed that there were a lot of fake reviews on other platforms, and I knew that people wanted a more reliable and trustworthy source for product reviews. That's why I decided to create a website that would prioritize genuine, honest curated reviews from real people. Our…

    2023 · styrate.co · its alternatives →

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    I built Campfiree because I got tired of platforms treating users as products. On Campfiree, users submit feature ideas and vote on them weekly. Moderation is handled by randomly selected community juries, no corporate team deciding what's acceptable. It's free with ads or $7/year without (free during beta). We have 55 users so far and ship features every week based on what the community votes for. I'd love honest feedback on the model and the product.

    2025 · campfiree.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12PR

    www.schmeebs.com I built this site in two days. I tried to make it a fusion of Twitter + Digg in that people will be able to follow certain "domains" of news then be able to see popular stuff from there. Its as real time as it can be at this point. Would welcome any thoughts on it!

    2010 · its alternatives →

  13. 13
    ratexd▲4

    A social media platform focused on rating

    2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14CS

    Hi HN, over the years of using the social media (Instagram, Pinterest, etc..), I’m quite weary of the trend that people tend to polish their content so well and post the perfect aspect of their lives. I feel like that I’m not one of them, and anything I post will be either not so polished to fit the “magazine” style of the community or so insignificant for anyone else to care about. Scrolling in those apps more and more and seeing more and more perfect lives, I feel like I was abused by those platforms and made me anxious about myself. I want an online space that can give my voice back,…

    2023 · its alternatives →

  15. 15IB
  16. 16YR

    Had this idea recently and just had to get it out of my head and into a (super quick and dirty) prototype. It's like Letterboxd but for anything, and with a simpler rating system you don't have to sweat about.

    2023 · yynn.app · its alternatives →

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    stat▲5

    I made Stat. A social platform centered around polls. What it offers: Create polls with instant feedback Filter results by demographics (age, gender, country, etc.) Add a short blog-style post to each poll Question and discuss surprising or funny results Visualize opinions with clean charts Most survey tools feel too heavy for quick insights. I wanted something lightweight and social, where opinions can be explored and compared in real time. Curious how you’d use a platform like this (research, blogging, product testing, casual fun)? What features would make it engaging without turning it…

    2025 · stat-beta.netlify.app · its alternatives →

  18. 18SS

    I recently launched my first web app, polls.io. It's a super simple polling app that doesn't require sign-up. In my opinion, this is the most simple/social polling app out there. There are certainly many similar apps out there, but I think this one stands out as it straight-forward and doesn't have any unnecessary "mess" getting in the way of the actual poll. From idea to inception this took about a week. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. We'll be listening to feedback in the coming days/weeks in order to make the proper changes. I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts and feedback!…

    2012 · polls.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’ve been building a small social network where the feed is always chronological — newest posts come first, always. It’s not 100% algorithm-free (there’s still basic filtering to avoid spam or abuse), but the core idea is that every user has a real chance to be seen, even with zero followers. It’s lightweight, works well on mobile, and supports both posts and comments. Most of the content is currently in Portuguese, since it started with a Brazilian audience, but the interface is mostly language-neutral. I’d love any feedback on the concept, UX, performance, or anything else. Thanks!

    2025 · qqpost.netlify.app · its alternatives →

  20. 20IM

    Hey everyone! I wanted to share a tool I built to help you quickly find potential customers across social media for your product. It's a really simple concept: you simply paste in your landing page URL, and it shows you highly relevant posts across Reddit (Working to integrate few more) from people who likely need your product or service. For example, if you have a minimal to-do list app, it will show you posts like "Anyone know of a minimal to-do list app?" or "Really starting to dislike how complex Notion is." These posts are from the last 48 hours, updated in real-time, and uniquely…

    2024 · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    public rating

    2025 · not-an-asshole.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22SI

    Hey guys, I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at my new site that I have put into private beta this weekend. In summary it is a site for photographers, graphic designers and web designers to get private feedback on their work. There are plenty of sites out there were we can post our work and get it seen but sometimes you need to be able to get some feedback before having it on a public display. This is part 1 of the longer term plan. The beta has the basics to enable users to review each others work, the number of images are limited at the minute but I will be extending…

    2011 · reviewport.net · its alternatives →

  23. 23IM

    Hi HN, After I finished my thesis on feedback management for SaaS at the end of last year, I thought it was time to do something hands-on that topic. Since I like the idea of such feedback tools, that lets you collaborate with users to find solutions together - instead of having a separated feedback from each user - this became my starting point. I also like the approach of the chat widgets as they make it easy for users to get in touch with the people behind the app. So I tried to combine these two approaches with sleekplan.com. Here are some of the main features: * Collect & discuss…

    2020 · its alternatives →

  24. 24RM

    http://profilepin.com I made this site during my free time over the past few weeks. I don’t consider myself a designer or a programmer, but I wanted to make something simple like this for fun, and now I figure I might as well have some fun promoting it too. The idea is basically a rehash of Google Profiles, except with a slightly different pitch. So let me know what you think. A couple of specific questions I have: Does this actually work as a minimum viable product? Is that feedback tab on the side an effective way to collect feedback from regular users?

    2010 · profilepin.com · its alternatives →

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