Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus
Cusdis is an open-source, self-hosted commenting system designed as an alternative to Disqus. Developers and website owners can deploy it on their own infrastructure to manage comments on their sites. The tool is built… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Cusdis▲122Open-source, lightweight comment system for your website
2021 · cusdis.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · demo.souradip.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror) - adtac/commento
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · commento.io · its alternatives →
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CommentBox.io▲120A beautiful, ad-free alternative to Disqus.
2018 · commentbox.io · its alternatives →
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Hosted commenting that's painless to embed, a pleasure to use, and a breeze to moderate.
2018 · commentbox.io · its alternatives →
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FastComments▲111FastComments is a live commenting system and Disqus alternative for static sites, WordPress, and any web application. Frontend and backend SDKs for building commenting and chat features into your existing applications.
2020 · fastcomments.com · its alternatives →
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Disqus alternative. License: AGPL. Uses a bit much memory (2 GB min, 4 better), should be possible to get below 0.5 GB if pre-compiling JVM stuff. There's SaaS hosting. Long term (2027+ ?), the idea is that inactive blogs (those that don't get comments) pay 1? 2? EUR / month. Then, one wouldn't need to feel stressed up about having an inactive blog — it'd cost about the same as the domain name. Previously on HN: (as you can see, I've been working on this for a while — had another job in between, and, sleepiness health problems, making things take longer, plus, being generally clueless…
2025 · blog-comments.talkyard.io · its alternatives →
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External comments for static HTML pages, a lightweight self-hosted disqus alternative. - skx/e-comments
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, Piotr here I was collecting nice open-source companies for quite some time now. Mostly to take some inspiration and learn from their code. Last week, I though it would be fun to learn this Astro thing everyone's talking about. So I thought building a directory website out of this collection was pretty good idea. After 2 days of building, OpenAlternative was born. It's a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications. Enjoy and thank you for your support!
2024 · openalternative.co · its alternatives →
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CursusDB is an open-source distributed in-memory yet persisted document oriented database system with real time capabilities. - GitHub - cursusdb/cursusdb: CursusDB is an open-source distributed in-memory yet persisted document oriented database system with real time capabilities.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · dmitri.shuralyov.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · archivy.github.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OpenRemark▲14An open-source comment system for static websites
Jun 2026 · open-remark.zeon.studio · its alternatives →
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2013 · posativ.org · its alternatives →
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A dead simple comment engine built on top of AWS lambda and React, alternative comment service to Disqus.
2017 · metrue.github.io · its alternatives →
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Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim - nim-lang/nimforum
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Commentblocks▲101Hey HN, I'm a freelance web developer and got tired of the endless email chains during website QA. Clients would send screenshots with red circles, or worse, Word docs with "the button on the page with the thing." I'd spend more time decoding feedback than actually fixing stuff. So I built Commentblocks. You add a script to your staging site, send clients a link, and they click anywhere on the page to leave a comment. That's it. No signup for them, no explaining how to use it. Each comment captures the exact element, viewport size, browser, and URL. Comments show up in a dashboard or can go…
Feb 2026 · commentblocks.com · its alternatives →
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An open-source ChatGPT app with a voice. Contribute to cogentapps/chat-with-gpt development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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