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24 alternatives to I made a better search for Unicode characters
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a better search for Unicode characters launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1IM
2022 · getmumu.com · its alternatives →
- 2UO
2012 · unicodefor.us · its alternatives →
- 3AS
2015 · unicode-highlight.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔… #famouslastwords
2014 · qaz.wtf · its alternatives →
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I made a free tool that stuns LLMs with invisible Unicode characters. *Use cases:* Anti-plagiarism, text obfuscation against LLM scrapers, or just for fun! Even just one word's worth of “gibberified” text is enough to block most LLMs from responding coherently.
Nov 2025 · gibberifier.com · its alternatives →
- 6IM
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
- 7GA
2011 · getimgs.appspot.com · its alternatives →
- 8UL
2021 · unicode.emnudge.dev · its alternatives →
- 9HI
2015 · hackersearch.io · its alternatives →
- 10RT
2015 · bedazzle.gordn.org · its alternatives →
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2023 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
- 12DA
2012 · diffboard.com · its alternatives →
- 13II
I can't say "I created a tool" because obviously I only had an idea, then asked Cursor to implement it and 15 minutes later it was ready ;) Often I found I was manually replacing em dashes with hyphens in AI-generated text before I use them in copy, PR descriptions etc. It still feels like a shame to flare the text "you wrote" was not really human made. To automate these removals, here it is: super tiny online page. I made it for myself, but whoever wants, you can use it as well. I am not going to monetize it or promote more than this post.
May 2026 · undsh.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
- 15UF
2014 · sprezzkeyboard.com · its alternatives →
- 16EE
2014 · earlyprint.wustl.edu · its alternatives →
- 17IM
2024 · formlick.com · its alternatives →
- 18FC
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
- 19TG
2017 · typehero.now.sh · its alternatives →
- 20IM
When your embedding provider is good, but could be better for your use-case.
2024 · zoplabs.com · its alternatives →
- 21AU
2014 · kq.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! In the last couple of weeks I've been working on Cranki: Cranki = Crosswords + Anki. (It's a stupid name tbh, haha) I like doing crosswords in Spanish (to learn vocab) but none of the apps out there allowed me to use my own list of words that I come across. So I built one instead. It's entirely client-side. No server, no database, no accounts, etc. Your words and stats are stored in local storage. I built this for myself but let me know if you like it!
Apr 2026 · cranki.app · its alternatives →
- 23BN
2012 · notepadbin.appspot.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I'm learning to keep things simple. I'm on startup no. 2 and have just put up a sign-up and twitter page. For the twitter page I needed a profile pic or logo of some sort so I've hacked together a little logo using unicode characters. Have a look: https://twitter.com/#!/TheSuperOwl I think it looks quite cute, it's a temporary thing until we get a designer on board. The 2 founders are not designers (product person & developer) so we don't want this to hold us back with getting things going. It's quite fun - I think we can play around with the unicode characters in the meantime. For…
2011 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →