Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to My inherently "viral" experiment: 3Pics.me
As you can tell, it's heavily influenced by Mark Bao's threewords.me. The concept is simple, upload three pics and let your friends vote on them. In fact, I think I may have ripped the concept off a post about threewords.me. Anyways... Basically, I just wanted to build something stripped down to a core functionality and a little different from my usual projects. I've spent a lot of time polishing the flow and trying to make sharing an inherent part of the app. It's built on Ruby/Padrino/Sinatra, Postgres and uses S3 for image hosting. This is actually my first Ruby project coming from a pure…
3Pics.me is a voting app where users upload three pictures and share them with friends to vote on their favorite. Built with Ruby, Padrino, and Sinatra, the application emphasizes a streamlined experience with sharing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My inherently "viral" experiment: 3Pics.me launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1MS
The following HN post prompted me to make this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168220 I have created http://onememory.me Alright, so it's not super-viral. It has been online for about 3 hours, so far. I made two or three tweets about it, and posted it on my Facebook wall. Within the three hours, I've seen ~200 unique visitors and had only 31 of them register. A very large percentage of that traffic all came from Twitter. Not many people seem to be sharing their URLs by way of my "tweet this" or facebook share buttons, though. I'll be making those more prominent soon. It's a similar…
2011 · its alternatives →
- 2KO
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 →
- 3WP
I had this domain for some time and I never got around to make a project for it. This last weekend I finally managed to find a few hours to work on it and I've just finished putting the code into production. The site lets you choose some pictures from your Facebook photos and then it will let other users vote on them, as long as they know your URL. This way you can find your best picture. Some random facts the HN crowd will appreciate: - Technologies: Tornado, mongodb and memcache, served with nginx - The site took around 5 hours to design and write (including time spent in Photoshop and…
2011 · onepic.me · its alternatives →
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Photobomb▲84just shipped my first ios game: photobomb, a party game for 3–8 players. similar to cards against humanity one player gets a prompt (ex: "bad posture"), everyone else digs through their camera roll to find the best matching photo under 40 seconds. The prompter picks their favorite photo and the player with that chosen phot wins the round, and you rotate until everyone's been the judge. bonus: if your photo gets screenshotted during the gallery , you score extra point. ;) its free, just need three friends and photos to share
May 2026 · photobomb.online · its alternatives →
- 5IO
I made an image sharing application to compete with Imgur. Chances are it's not going to take over Imgur any time soon, so I figured I'd open source it. Stack: * Symfony w/ PHP 5.5 * Postgres 9.2 * Redis 2.8 * Ruby 2.0 (Capistrano) * Vagrant It's a fairly basic Symfony application but also makes use of a lot of Symfony components. It's sufficiently complex enough that you can probably learn a decent amount from it if you want to start playing around with Symfony. It has a few tests, uses Resque, uses the Symfony service container, and integrates with Amazon S3. Check it out, would love…
2013 · its alternatives →
- 6EA
Hi Everyone, (I know this is a repost, but I had some dns issues with my last submission) I created this as a small project last weekend (started on _whyday) just to flex some ruby muscle, learn some stuff about sinatra, oauth and the twitter api and also get into the spirit of the day. So what it does is use your twitter followers and random people on twitter to answer your questions (bearing in mind that the syntax has to result in a yes or no question). So In effect they may or may-not know anything about you, so you just vote yes or no (kinda like facemash or hot-or-not but for…
2011 · its alternatives →
- 7
Hi HN, I’m Saad and I built BestPick.online. We made this because your profile picture is often your first impression — whether you're on a dating app, LinkedIn, Instagram or building a personal brand. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1} Here’s what it does: - Upload 2-3 photos of yourself. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2} - Choose the goal (dating app, professional, social, etc.). :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3} - The AI instantly rates them and shows which one works best for that goal. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4} We believe: - Different platforms need different kinds…
2025 · bestpick.online · its alternatives →
- 8WM
Hi HN, If you’re like me and you have trouble creating funny memes, this app might be for you! I wanted a way to create memes on the fly using photos I’ve taken, and I couldn’t find a way to do it. So I built it! Meet gigglz.app. Just upload a photo, push a button, and let AI turn your photo into a hilarious meme. Free to try with no signup required! Would love any feedback, let me know what you think.
2024 · gigglz.app · its alternatives →
- 9SH
Did this during the holidays and just finished with few extra features: http://thingsand.me/ And an example blog: http://thingsand.me/jori I tried to keep the platform as simple as possible and focus on the images instead of making yet another blogging platform. Time will tell for what people are going to use it. I hope to add API soon (iPhone uploader would be awesome to blog daily activities).
2011 · thingsand.me · its alternatives →
- 10
Roceet▲16Another news on Roceet. Last time I posted I mentioned Roceet (now Roceet Share), a file sharing platform as a solution to transferring data between devices. It was motivated by seeing my fiancee struggling to transfer data between her phone/laptop. I found another pain point: she’s a wannabe model, and the process of feedback and selecting photos is a mess. Big folders, endless emails, no good feedback tools. So I built Roceet Review. Upload photos/videos/whatever, share a review link, clients can approve pics, comment, even draw on the photos if they want to be specific. Its…
2025 · roceet.com · its alternatives →
- 11WP
I've been working some software to make capturing feedback cheap and easy. I think it can be much less expensive if we put our friends and family to use.
2012 · moustach.io · its alternatives →
- 12SS
I recently launched my first web app, polls.io. It's a super simple polling app that doesn't require sign-up. In my opinion, this is the most simple/social polling app out there. There are certainly many similar apps out there, but I think this one stands out as it straight-forward and doesn't have any unnecessary "mess" getting in the way of the actual poll. From idea to inception this took about a week. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. We'll be listening to feedback in the coming days/weeks in order to make the proper changes. I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts and feedback!…
2012 · polls.io · its alternatives →
- 13
Recently there were some changes to the Twitter algorithm and one of the most important ones was boosting video content even more in the feed, which got me thinking: "Why shouldn't we benefit from the algo changes and get a boost every time we are sharing some visuals?" So I spent the weekend building a tool that: - Turns your images into videos - Has 30 beautiful animated gradients that we can pick from - Is completely FREE I'd love to know your thoughts about it!
2023 · clippulse.com · its alternatives →
- 14
Campfiree▲14I built Campfiree because I got tired of platforms treating users as products. On Campfiree, users submit feature ideas and vote on them weekly. Moderation is handled by randomly selected community juries, no corporate team deciding what's acceptable. It's free with ads or $7/year without (free during beta). We have 55 users so far and ship features every week based on what the community votes for. I'd love honest feedback on the model and the product.
2025 · campfiree.com · its alternatives →
- 15
Hi HN, I created a (realistic) fake tweet generator to make my mum believe I'm successful until I get there for real haha. Now I can proudly (not) show her Elon endorsed my SaaS! It's 100% free to use and I tried to make it as realistic as possible while being easy to use. There are already existing similar tools but I could not find one that automatically pre-fills data from a twitter username and that handles business accounts (square picture/gold badge/company picture) so I built it. I would love to hear your feedback or suggestions!
2024 · snowball.club · its alternatives →
- 16
Hello, here's my first app on the App Store, a week end project I've made with a friend. I had the idea - questionable - and did the UI. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instatus/id622077531?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2 (there's also the free version) The concept it's pretty simple, share your thoughts on Instagram, only words on white background so it will seems that your words will float into your friends feed - I suggest to not use any filter! - got already some ideas for future upgrades. I'm giving away 3 code to get the full version, if you want one, just ask! Best, Filippo p.s. This message…
2013 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 17
Sprint estimation without the bloat. Clean, fast, focused.
Jan 2026 · votesprint.com · its alternatives →
- 18HM
I made this as a pair programming exercise with o1-preview. o1 did most of the heavy lifting, through high level prompts, but eventually I needed to diverge from it to get to completion. My initial prompt was: --- I'm making a web app: It's like 4chan, but each thread starts with a gps coordinate. People can only post text and images. I want to build it with flask and sqlalchemy. I want just the backend and data model that supports these threads, anonymous users, and users that can register a permanent username. Write as much of it as you can for me. --- This produced a fully scaffolded…
2024 · mapchan.com · its alternatives →
- 19MF
Please have a look at www.socialeaks.com and tell me what you think. This is my first adventure in coding (my background is not CS). I started learning rails about a month ago via railstutorial.org. When I finished that, I felt the best way to continue learning would be to just build an app from scratch. I came up with this concept while observing how crazy the world had gone over WikiLeaks. I thought this was a funny idea. I also thought it would be fun to build! So, here I am. I built this in rails 3 and it is currently living on Heroku. It took me about two weeks to code, doing just about…
2011 · its alternatives →
- 20SS
2018 · blendinhere.com · its alternatives →
- 21IB
I had 14,000 photos sitting on a drive and wanted an excuse to play with local vision models and Elixir/Phoenix. I originally tried to get LLaVA to tell me if a photo was 'good' or matched my style, but quickly learned that LLMs have terrible taste. I ended up demoting the LLM to just extract metadata, and built a custom CLIP/Ridge Regression pipeline to actually learn my preferences based on how I rate things. The stack is Phoenix/Oban on the orchestrator side, and Python/FastAPI/Instructor for the AI workers. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture,…
Apr 2026 · qwelian.com · its alternatives →
- 22GA
Hi HN, About two months ago, I was inspired by the events that began to unfold in Tunisia, Egypt, and then elsewhere, as everyday people started using the internet to organize revolutions against despots. I was amazed at their courage, using sites like Facebook which forces them to use their real name, or twitter which uses an account that can be easily tracked back to them. I thought that if there was a way they could use a site to communicate with a large audience, anonymously, they might be a bit safer. Graffitly is my attempt at that site. It's my first ruby on rails app, and there is…
2011 · its alternatives →
- 23AS
Social media these days feels like swimming through a feed of AI generated slop rather than actual human thoughts. Sometimes I wonder what the prompts behind the posts are. I bet there's more creativity going into the prompts than the final content that actually gets shared. What if people just shared their prompts, and the completion was rendered on-demand, client side? Disclaimer: This is a vibe coded proof-of-concept, not a functional service, built in the no-code builder Mocha. It's seeded with a few fake posts. You can create your own posts but they're just saved locally on your own…
2025 · 2fjxieoiipm32.mocha.app · its alternatives →
- 24MW
http://imagestash.org/ Kind of like Instapaper for images. While surfing at home one evening I found the perfect desktop background ... for my work machine. I got to pondering the quickest way to save a random image so I could get to it on all of my devices, got a wee bit carried away with the technical possibilities, and this was the result. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
2011 · imagestash.org · its alternatives →
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