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24 alternatives to Metaheads

A search engine for Facebook comments

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Metaheads launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1MA
  2. 2SE

    Hey HN, Blog discovery is a problem [0] due to the decentralized nature of online writing. Everyone writes on their own site or platform, and there’s no central place that brings everything together. Google results prioritize large media publications over blogs, so we need something else. Blog Surf is an attempt to organize all of the great online writing done by individuals. I launched this project last year as a directory of personal blogs [1], but have now rebuilt it from scratch into a full-text search engine for blog posts. You can search for blog posts, and filter by publish date and…

    2022 · blogsurf.io · its alternatives →

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    Check how your page or blog's metadata renders on social.

    2018 · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Search your Desktop, Google Drive, Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote.

    2016 · finance.yahoo.com · its alternatives →

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    A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search engine

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Extract meta tags from any website

    2024 · metapreviews.com · its alternatives →

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    A search engine for the social web

    2021 · hashfinder.xyz · its alternatives →

  8. 8WD
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    Hey HN, I’ve been an indie hacker for a while, but I haven’t had much success with my past projects. Recently, I came across Marc Lou’s advice about building free tools just for fun, so I decided to give it a shot. I built Metacheck, a simple tool that lets you preview how any link will appear on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Whatsapp, Telegram, and other platforms. No API keys, no setup—just paste a link and see the preview. Why I built this I often ran into issues where social platforms displayed broken or unexpected link previews. Debugging Open Graph meta tags was annoying, so I made a tool…

    2025 · metacheck.appstate.co · its alternatives →

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    Search, filter, download & analyze YouTube comments

    2024 · alternatifdonototo.com · its alternatives →

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    Link sharing platform for experts, contextual search engine

    2022 · library.one · its alternatives →

  12. 12NA
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    MetaJoke▲122

    Meta jokes that went viral on Twitter

    2021 · its alternatives →

  14. 14AD

    We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

    2024 · hn.trieve.ai · its alternatives →

  15. 15GS

    2014 · socialrank.com · its alternatives →

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    Shows relevant Reddit/HN/FB comments while you surf the web

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    We built a search engine that shows you the most engaging stories/topics being shared across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. We crawled over 15 million articles the past 3 months, retrieved the total number of Facebook likes, tweets, Google+’s etc and built a search index around it. Here's what our infrastructure looks like: Rails/Redis: We use the Sidekiq gem as a message queue. We have hundreds of workers that do the crawling, data mining, and number crunching. ElasticSearch: We built the search index using ElasticSearch, with the data imported from our Postgres…

    2013 · buzzsumo.com · its alternatives →

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    UserHunt▲145

    Hunt down accounts by username across social networks

    2021 · its alternatives →

  19. 19AB

    2013 · sotosearch.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20MK

    Hi, I'm Ritinkar and I'm building metadocs, which is kind of like reddit built into every documentation ever. It's a chrome extension that allows discussion on any webpage to happen there itself. Currently I have built threaded comments, and a upvote/downvote system. Plus I've built this cool feature called Highlights, which lets you discuss specific lines in any documentation. As well as a feature called Top Hightlights, which shows the most interesting hightlights on any webpage. Hope you guys will try it out. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me here. Thanks.

    2022 · metadocs8.com · its alternatives →

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    Memebox▲93

    A search engine for memes

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Learning through conversational search

    2022 · friday.education · its alternatives →

  23. 23SH

    I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…

    2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →

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    Search across the metaverse

    2022 · its alternatives →

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