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24 alternatives to Lighthouse London #20: Building a 20k Community in a year with Ben from Chew.tv
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lighthouse London #20: Building a 20k Community in a year with Ben from Chew.tv launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Lighthouse London #22: Starting Up, Shutting Down and Enabling the Next Generation of Entrepreneur▲55With Tristan Watson of Ignite
2016 · its alternatives →
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The beginnings and launch of Y Combinator-backed Gigster
2016 · its alternatives →
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Great suggestions for new shows to listen to here.
2016 · its alternatives →
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I chat with host of The 20 Minute VC and our beta is ready
2016 · its alternatives →
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Discussing podcast discovery & community w/ PH & Roman Mars
2015 · its alternatives →
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I wanted to listen to music with friends who live far away. Not "watch a YouTube video together" - actually share what I'm hearing in real-time, like we're in the same room. Pulse is what came out of that. Anyone can host a live audio stream from their browser tab or system audio. Listeners join, music recognition identifies tracks automatically, and there's chat with 7TV emotes. No account required - you get an anonymous code and you're in. We're running demo rooms that stream NTS Radio and SomaFM 24/7 (indie project, not affiliated - we backlink to the original stations). There's also…
Nov 2025 · 473999.net · its alternatives →
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How we went from 0 launches in 5 years to 9 in the last 2
2016 · its alternatives →
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A new podcast designed to shatter common communication
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hey guys! Im so happy to announce the launch of my new startup, Kiveve. Kiveve is a traffic exchange network created to help quality content bloggers and webmasters increase their traffic and therefore their revenue. We are at our very early stages and we are now open for website application to join our network I'd love to know what you think about it!
2011 · kiveve.com · its alternatives →
- 16TL
I built this app because I really enjoyed "Pulse" but I felt it lacked a few things. I wanted a web-based version, I wanted my news articles grouped together by topic, and I wanted an easy way to share with other people. It is early in the site's life, so somethings are missing, including the critical mobile app. If you have any feedback to give, it would be appreciated!
2011 · thread.ly · its alternatives →
- 17FI
This is something fun I’ve been hacking on recently: ridiculously simple group chat. Go to http://faces.io and then get your friends to do the same. That’s it! :-D Currently works best in Chrome. It’s definitely beta status at best. Audio can get weird—be ready to mute. ;-) Let me know what you think!
2014 · its alternatives →
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2012 · burn.fm · its alternatives →
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This is our entry in the "spontaneous event creation" ring. I'd love to hear what HN readers think!
2011 · shoutfast.com · its alternatives →
- 20NP
I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc. I created a hacker news specific "shoutbox" at http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news . If nobody is in there, please be patient and (I hope) people will join soon to start talking. The idea is to have trending topics on facebook/twitter/etc and have chat rooms to get…
2014 · urshoutbox.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've been working on Muxamp for over a year now, and I decided that there's no point in keeping the source closed. (I never planned on making money from it.) I've learned a lot since I started, and I hope others can benefit from its release--and perhaps teach me a thing or two as well :)
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I always find myself frustrated by how many steps I have to take to video chat with someone online. There's always too much software to download and install, and too many accounts to remember. The high-end, high-price Cisco conferencing systems I've used are especially fragile. So I built Vidless in a weekend for myself, and I hope you find it useful too. Just create a room and share the link, and you'll be chatting in seconds. You can invite several people (I haven't really tested a max yet), and chats on Vidless are always private. Enjoy!
2012 · vidless.com · its alternatives →
- 23MT
2013 · mixtrss.com · its alternatives →
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I know mentioning Michael Seibel is almost cheating, but this week he demonstrated the "leaky pipes" concept to me. Not that I know the guy, but in one of his videos he says something on the lines of "If you are unsure if you app is ready to be launched, just launch it. It's like a house with leaky pipes, just open the main, grab your tools, and start fixing wherever water is leaking". So we did it, we launched drummy earlier this week on /r/InternetIsBeautiful and we got very close to 10k users in just one day! Survived the hug of death, learned a ton, and made changes all around.…
2022 · drummy.io · its alternatives →
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