Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Linen
Make Slack and Discord communities Google-searchable
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Linen launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1LM
Hi HN! Kam here. I’m the founder of Linen.dev https://linen.dev, a website that makes your public Slack community Google searchable. Linen will sync your Slack threads and make it SEO friendly so your community can find Slack content that was previously hidden. Previously I worked on a popular open source project which had a sizable Slack community. Slack was great for engaging with community members and with early sales. However as community scales Slack becomes this black hole where context becomes lost. Most public communities can’t afford to pay for several…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord! I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free open source Slack alternative for communities
2022 · linen.dev · its alternatives →
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Slack▲2,714Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.
2013 · slack.com · its alternatives →
- 5LT
Hi HN! I'm Kam, the founder and one of the authors of Linen. Today, we are launching Linen.team (https://linen.team/), a lightweight threaded messaging app for your team. Modern workplace messaging apps (like Slack) are based on IRC, which is great for small groups, but as it scales, breaks down quickly: you either get overwhelmed by notifications or you have to turn them all off. Most chat apps have threads tacked on but aren't built from the ground up with this design in mind. We wanted to create a thread-first experience where you can organize and prioritize conversations…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Keep conversations organized and easy to follow with Threads
2017 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Turn Slack, Discord, Circle into a virtual co-working space
2023 · flow.club · its alternatives →
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Get a Spotify like recap of your Slack/Discord community
2022 · its alternatives →
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Slack Canvas▲138A new surface to curate and collaborate within Slack
2022 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Show your work. Paste is a new presentation tool for Slack.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Slack 4.0▲472A snappier, more efficient Slack desktop experience
2019 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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A free tool for migrating your data from Discord to Slack
2019 · discord.karmabot.chat · its alternatives →
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For Slack teams to capture knowledge, organize and act on it
2016 · pingpad.io · its alternatives →
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OnlyThreads▲146No more messy Slack chats – turn Slack into a knowledge base
2021 · onlythreads.co · its alternatives →
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Get a Slack message with a link to every code change
2021 · its alternatives →
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- 24SC
2022 · saveslack.com · its alternatives →
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