Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Peer-to-peer mini r/place with Proof of Work
Hi HN, This is a site where users can submit content and the shortest SHA256 value of nonce+content among them will make the site display the content. Very basic, without a blockchain. It's a static site with WebRTC and peer-to-peer. Why? I wanted r/place (Reddit canvas where users collaborate on a pixel grid), but with proof of work. This is my progress so far. It's a WebRTC app with peer to peer connectivity that forwards the best hashed values to other users, which verify them, display them and pass them on. There are many many improvements to be done (especially I should probably…
This is a peer-to-peer collaborative canvas application where users submit content and the entry with the shortest SHA256 hash value gets displayed, similar to Reddit's r/place but powered by proof-of-work computation… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Peer-to-peer mini r/place with Proof of Work launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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 →
- 2PT
2016 · bitf.ly · its alternatives →
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For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet). The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River[1], our decentralized group chat and Delta - a decentralized CMS. Users have already started to build their own apps on Freenet including games, and we have some interesting apps in development like Atlas, a search/recommendation engine. Architecturally, this new Freenet is a global, decentralized key-value store where keys are webassembly…
May 2026 · freenet.org · its alternatives →
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A gateway to a new, decentralized internet
2017 · blockstack.org · its alternatives →
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Dev community that lets you blog on your domain for free
2020 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
- 8SD
Social networking over static sites
Mar 2026 · satproto.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I just released weron, a P2P VPN that uses WebRTC for transport which I've been working on for the last couple of months. It can create both layer 2/Ethernet and layer 3/IP overlay networks, and the underlying transport layer can be easily embedded to write your own P2P apps with Go. Compared to for example Tailscale, WireGuard and ZeroTier, its much harder to block on a network level and also significantly easier to set up, while not sacrifing much performance. I'd love to get your feedback :)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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P2P WebRTC based encrypted data transfer between peers. - abhishekgahlot/gutenberg-rtc
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11RW
Hi, creator here. This is a demo of our recent work presented at Oakland (IEEE S&P): https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/368. The server and client code are written in Rust and available here: https://github.com/menonsamir/spiral-rs. The general aim of our work is to show that homomorphic encryption is practical today for real-world applications. The server we use to serve this costs $35/month! A quick overview: the client uses homomorphic encryption to encrypt the article number that they would like to retrieve. The server processes the query and…
2022 · spiralwiki.com · its alternatives →
- 12RP
/r/place backed by the Bitcoin blockchain http://northpole.ro/cryptoplace/
2017 · mess110.github.io · its alternatives →
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- 14AE
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IPFS▲84Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for Blockchain powered web
2015 · about.ipfs.io · its alternatives →
- 16RA
My attempt to create a decentralised reddit using a merkle-dag and webrtc. Advice would be much appreciated. https://memesfortheparanoid.com
2015 · its alternatives →
- 17IM
2014 · jack.minardi.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here. I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console. By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more. It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 20SD
Web site to securely transmit files between browsers
2021 · sendfiles.dev · its alternatives →
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Share a terminal session over WebRTC. Contribute to maxmcd/webtty development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple distributed blockchain experiment written in Ruby - oguzbilgic/zincir
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 23WD
https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/webrtc-data-channel-demo Hi! I made this GitHub repo to try and show WebRTC data channels and the connection establishment flow in a different way from what I was able to find online. My aim with this repository is to make WebRTC data channels accessible to any web developer by showcasing offerer and answerer separately for total novices (makes it much clearer what's going on on each end of the connection) as well as combined approach where a peer can be both offerer and answerer. I use postMessage instead of a real signalling channel,…
2017 · its alternatives →
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Reddit-alike where submissions and voting use Bitcoin - fisher-lebo/updn
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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