Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Meet Geisha
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working with a total stranger, @ahmetsulek. We’ve never met in real life, and our communication has been restricted to Skype. And that’s Skype call, not video. Whilst it’s advised that one should only team up with somebody they’ve known for a long time, I’ve found this not to be necessary. Instead, all you need is a dose of mutual respect and a clear partnership agreement. We’ve been working together for the past couple of months on a web app and Chrome Extension that aggregates sites like Hacker News, Designer News, Sidebar.io, Behance and Dribbble…
Meet Geisha is a web app and Chrome extension that aggregates content from design and tech sites including Hacker News, Designer News, Sidebar.io, Behance, and Dribbble into a single interface. It is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Meet Geisha launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1MH
Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I…
2024 · its alternatives →
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A few days ago, I responded to a comment by bloggergirl offering to read anyone's web copy and help. I shot off an email hoping for a paragraph or two of feedback on my startup's copy. Instead I received a professional, detailed deck of tons of invaluable well thought out feedback. It must have taken her an entire afternoon. Here's a link to it: http://www.slideshare.net/shereefb/recommendations-for-bettermeans To top it off, this isn't someone with a lot of free time on her hands, she's only days away from launching her own startup (page99test) This community blows my mind!
2010 · slideshare.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN We loaded a BigQuery dataset of all of Hacker News, every comment, story and user, into camelAI. You can ask questions like: • “When does dang tend to comment during the day?” • “Which domains have gained the most submissions since 2015, year-over-year?” • “How has average comment length changed each January since 2007?” • “Top five users who link to arXiv papers the most.” It's behind a log-in to prevent abuse but free to use for 10 messages. No payment info required. We use OpenAI o3 or Claude sonnet 3.7 for the agent which can be really expensive. Would love feedback especially…
2025 · app.camelai.com · its alternatives →
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Our team just published Geppetto. Geppetto is an open source Slack App to use ChatGPT inside your workspace. It is written in Python and super easy to tinker and fork: - GitHub: https://github.com/Deeptechia/geppetto - Our first public release: https://deeptechia.io/blog/geppetto-ai-companion-for-slack/
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5WA
Hi I'm Akina from Japan and we develop new SNS named bajji(badge). bajji will visualize reliable relationships. You can connect only with person actually you've met by using our app. And only those who met in person with you can give your assessment to you.By using blockchain, data could be fair to anyone. It keeps service reliability. 1,000 users in Japan and we are trying to expand this service to worldwide as a next step. bajji will solve digital rights on social web. Could you feedback about service for me? Here is my invite URL. If you register from this URL, you and I will get some…
2019 · its alternatives →
- 6MW
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 →
- 7SS
TLDR: The beta of my my site, Sparkmuse, has begun. Please join me at http://www.sparkmuse.com/invitation/Hacker-News . The Story: Well here it is, the beta of Sparkmuse. I'm pretty happy to "get there", but I'm really just relieved. Don't get me wrong, I'm F'ING STOKED to get this in front of some more valuable eyeballs, especially the Hacker News crowd. Right now though, I'm just leaning back in a rickety old chair thinking "I did it." Several months ago I was pretty down on myself. I wanted to get out there and meet new people, do cool projects, explore new technologies, and just jump…
2011 · sparkmuse.com · its alternatives →
- 8KO
My co-founder and I saved up enough money to quit our jobs 6 months ago and go full-time. We began working on, while bootstrapping, a photo sharing startup. Unfortunately, after many iterations, it wasn't working well enough and we decided to kill it. However, through that process, we conducted a lot of user tests and interviews, and realized that finding users to test is a pretty hard problem. That's why we made Gemba, Japanese for "the real place", which is a service that connects companies to testers on demand for in-person interviews. URL: http://gemba.me Would love your…
2013 · its alternatives →
- 9HA
Hello HN! Here's my November Startup Sprint project (coded in two days). http://hackerlunch.com It allows you to post your lunch plans and lets other hackers join you. I built this because I often see HN users are interested in meeting each other if they are in the same area. I am not a coder, so this version is very rough. If people use it, I will work with others to build a more polished version. I would love some feedback. What do you think? Is this something you will be using?
2010 · hackerlunch.com · its alternatives →
- 10HH
So my fiance and I are addicted to Hacker News and we have learned a lot about startups on here. We had an idea for a startup that would have taken a lot of time and resources to build but thanks to Hacker News we have learned about people like Eric Ries, Steven Blank and the whole customer development strategy. We decided to build the MVP for our startup to see if there was a market for our original idea and also raise money for our wedding. We shaved off all of the crazy features and launched https://www.crowdbundle.com/ Hacker News taught us to build a MVP and make sure there was a market…
2011 · crowdbundle.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I have been doing Indie Hacking for almost 2 years. I was sick of following people on social media or DMing and calling it networking. So, I built a network/platform where professionals meet with fellows via scheduled video calls. We as a community believe that this is a better way as an initial contact than follows and direct messages. Our platform is open for free, early access, currently. Feel free to check us out at https://makermeet.me and if our mindsets match, you may join us at https://app.makermeet.me/ Whom is it best for? It's perfect for…
2025 · makermeet.me · its alternatives →
- 12HN
Friends, Romans, HNers! Link: http://hackerbyte.com This is my first “weekend project” and it was really fun doing it. The sleepless weekends nights when all my friends were our partying or something we (me and two friends) were busy creating ‘hackerByte’ - a weekly newsletter to share inspiration with start-up people. Nothing fancy - just we’d like to share some really nice stuff we read and some news with you, every week. We know that newsletters like these already exist so why one more? Because we are not really satisfied with what they are doing and here is our version of the wheel. We…
2011 · hackerbyte.com · its alternatives →
- 13
Hey HN, This is DevMarket, a platform connecting technical and non-technical people to work on side projects together. You swipe right until you find a profile that resonates with you, use tools to evaluate them, and start a project with clear agreements in place. It’s designed as an end-to-end solution for cofounder matching, and our motivation is to make cofounder finding easy for everyone. I hope you enjoy it. Would love your feedback Daniel
2025 · devmarket.pro · its alternatives →
- 14IM
orignally shared this on startup school... i thought id' share it here. i'm using a `nocode communication tool` (a web-based interface... a single browser tab!) for all of these things: 1. landing page — the landing page is the product and i wanted for folks to feel "transported" right into the app without having to walk through a shitty b2b marketing-style content. this is akin to my experience back in the `BBS` days of the mid-90's where you were immediately into the app, community, and tool. no terms of service, no privacy policy. just pure, immediate value. 2. building community — we…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Needle▲21Hi HN, I am Vaibhav - a founder based in Bangalore, India. Most founders build without knowing who their real competitors are or what users are actually asking for right now. We usually search Google, Twitter, Reddit manually and hope to catch signals - but it’s slow and incomplete, hence easy to miss important conversations.. This is exactly what Needle solves. I built Needle because I kept struggling to answer a basic question while building MoveOnFromYourEx (Ai tool that helps people move on after a breakup): "Where are the people who are already talking about the problem I am solving?" I…
2025 · useneedle.net · its alternatives →
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This weekend I finally shipped Gryt, a project I’ve been building since 2022 — an open-source, self-hostable Discord-style app focused on reliable voice chat + text. I’m the creator. I started it after getting fed up with Discord disconnects/paywalls and wanted something self-hosted and auditable. I started on this in 2022 and had an early proof-of-concept working back then (auth + friends list), but I quickly realized WebRTC voice isn’t something you can duct-tape together. I spent a big chunk of the next couple years learning the stack (ICE/DTLS-SRTP, NAT traversal, SFU design),…
Feb 2026 · gryt.chat · its alternatives →
- 17IR
Any suggestions are appreciated, stack utilizes Gluestack UI ,Expo, React Native, and Cloudflare Pages. There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard's spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know. Please note, this is just a prototype, it still has a lot of features to be included. I'd like to learn more about how people use HN and how Hacked could help, where other HN clients failed.
2025 · hacked.unlace.app · its alternatives →
- 18GM
Just finished this over the last few weekends, wanted to get this in front of a few users. A few things: - There are no users as of me posting this. - Add "Hacker News" to your interests once you've signed up. It'll allow us to see each other. - You will only see other users with similar interests. - Only common interests will be revealed. Let me know any feedback/suggestions/bugs/idea sucks, etc.
2011 · its alternatives →
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AsianMOM▲9Randomly got inspired yesterday seeing SmolVLM working on WebGPU and had the silly idea for this project. it's not perfect and super limited because of the current limitations of WebML (and admittedly, because I suck at prompting, but that's why it's Open Source haha) but it is 1.5B WORTH OF AI (SmolVLM 500M and LLama 3.2 1B) working RIGHT IN YOUR BROWSER with you not having to install anything! In fact, the whole thing is actually just an index.html that you can install and even use directly! It might be a little bit slow on first try (takes about 3 mins) when it installs models, but it…
2025 · asianmom.kuber.studio · its alternatives →
- 20HA
Long time Hacker News lurker, first time Hacker News poster : ) I built a Hacker News reader app with NextJS and TailwindCSS that pulls item and user data from the hacker news api (https://github.com/HackerNews/API). This is my first time really building and launching something for users so I'd love any and all feedback. The roughest spots at the moment are the threading of comments and the fetching of posts on a user's page (lots of individual calls (async) for individual items rather than getting them in bulk from an endpoint like /v0/beststories). Let me know…
2022 · hacolyte.com · its alternatives →
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Geppetto v0.2.5 is now available. This update introduces supports for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, all integrated into one Slack app (@Geppetto). It also includes image generation capabilities, with more features currently in development. We're actively using Geppetto across several of our companies, assisting teams in areas like software engineering and sales. All Slack channel members can partipate in threads. Links: ⸰ GitHub: ⸰ First Public Release: ⸰ Docker Hub: ⸰ Previous HN Launch:
2024 · deeptechia.io · its alternatives →
- 22CC
Hey there HN! I believe the future of AI communication will be more voice and less text. Low-latency realistic voice interactions are finally becoming feasible. I've built a few voice-first apps on Retell AI using Elevenlabs voices. This one uses Claude Haiku for responses and Mixtral to switch between posts and comments. The AI knows about the top 30 posts and their comments on Hacker News right now. After a Google sign-in you can try it free for 10 minutes. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
2024 · callhackernews.com · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News, I'm the maker of Kopage, a free & self-hosted Website Builder. While working on new, cool features (AI, of course), it would be great to hear some HN feedback :) Thanks, Simon
2024 · kopage.com · its alternatives →
- 24
Hello HN, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of my first app, Hazumi, a Hacker News reader, available for free on iOS! I’ve been lurking on HN for around 2 years while working on this project seeing people post amazing HN reader apps of their own. I’ve always figured Hazumi wasn’t good enough yet to post here but if I wait around until I’m ready, I’ll probably never share so here goes… Hazumi is a modern Hacker News app for your pocket with some intentional limitations. Stories are displayed on a simple colourful card, with images, that condenses all the information you need at a glance.…
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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