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24 alternatives to my open source "reddit"-like community

My Open Source "Reddit"-like Community is a self-hosted platform for building community discussion sites. Launched in 2014, it provides the core functionality of Reddit—threaded discussions, voting, and user-generated… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. my open source "reddit"-like community launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years▲1,943
Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported…
2023 · non.io · its alternatives →
2OS
Open-source StackOverflow-like service▲74
2016 · paizaqa.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years▲260
2023 · flingup.com · its alternatives →
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Indie Hackers Community▲1,095
Work together to build profitable businesses & side projects
2018 · indiehackers.com · its alternatives →
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Comradery▲291
Threaded discussions and real-time chat for your community!
2020 · comradery.com · its alternatives →
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Community OS by Threado▲686
800+ community resources and Notion workbook for free
2021 · its alternatives →
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Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments▲207
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…
2023 · zsync.xyz · its alternatives →
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Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever▲286
Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into something you can browse on your own hardware. The key point: This doesn't touch Reddit's servers. Ever. Download the Pushshift dataset, run my tool locally, get a fully browsable archive. Works on an air-gapped machine. Works on a Raspberry Pi serving your LAN. Works on a USB drive you hand to someone. What it does: Takes compressed data dumps…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum▲373
basement community is a community message board for talking about general things and specific things okay?
2023 · basementcommunity.com · its alternatives →
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A self-hosted Twitter- and Reddit-like site written in Rust▲11
The safest and lightest forum, powered by rust. Contribute to freedit-org/freedit development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discourse▲287
A platform for community discussion. Free, open and simple.
2015 · discourse.org · its alternatives →
12AD
Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)▲72
2017 · hashtags.chat · its alternatives →
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Replyke▲346
APIs for user content, social graphs, and moderation tools
2025 · sublay.io · its alternatives →
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CommunityScout▲223
Get the right community platform based on your needs
2022 · bettermode.com · its alternatives →
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redditmade▲164
Crowdfunding projects backed by Reddit community
2014 · its alternatives →
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Threads▲274
Share ideas & trends with text
2023 · threads.net · its alternatives →
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Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual▲217
2017 · redditgrid.com · its alternatives →
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I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites▲217
HI Hacker News! I’m very excited to show you this project I have been working on, MarkdownSite.com. For folks who interact with the website, it is a web hosting platform where you can add your repository and have a website built from the `public/` directory. Files in `site/` with an `.md` extension are rendered from markdown to HTML, and the website is then available at a random subdomain. For folks that set up their own instance, it can also become a framework for customized building. The entire project is open source and I tried my best to document and explain the structure of…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks▲152
2021 · reggit.bubbleapps.io · its alternatives →
20IB
I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas▲127
I’ve been messing around with Bluesky for a while, and one thing I really missed was a proper way to browse discussions in a structured, Reddit-like way specially myself being daily reddit user. So, I ended up building a Reddit-like client for Bluesky that scratches that itch: Threadsky.app It pulls in trending topics, lets you explore conversations with a threaded view (so no more getting lost in replies), and even allows users to create channels with customizations, basically, like subreddits but on Bluesky. That said, this is still pretty barebones, and there’s a lot to improve. I really…
2025 · threadsky.app · its alternatives →
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Sociables, A Reddit alternative that lets community owners monetize▲13
Hey HN, A buddy and I have been working on a side project in the online community space in our free time over the past few years. Our platform is a sort of Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid. Decided to do a soft launch today in light of all the recent Reddit news. Community features: 1. Customizable discussion boards. Community owners can setup threaded discussion boards for different topics related to their niche. Say a user creates a community for a niche like "Cars", under that community they could create different discussion boards for sub categories like "Car-mods", "Car-photos",…
2023 · sociables.com · its alternatives →
22IM
I made online community for unusual people▲117
2019 · holynetr.com · its alternatives →
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Zapchain▲196
Create your own reddit-like community, powered by Bitcoin
2015 · its alternatives →
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ClubsAll▲91
Connecting people
2023 · its alternatives →

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