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24 alternatives to Project Seldon

An unbiased social and political research platform

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Project Seldon launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Project 501▲152
A gig platform for skill-based volunteering.
2017 · its alternatives →
2
Zillabyte▲87
An API for analyzing the world's information
2014 · its alternatives →
3
Social Cops▲63
Powering world's decisions through data from the grassroots
2014 · its alternatives →
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Narratives Project – A news product for a more peaceful internet▲91
Hey HN! I’m Shaun, and I started the Narratives Project (https://www.narrativesproject.com/), a non-profit that presents divisive news events as contrasting narratives to show why people disagree. Our goal is to lower people’s distress about the news and animosity towards those they disagree with. Our current news media system incites instead of informs. On-the-ground reporting has been replaced by armchair journalism, most people are locked in viewpoint silos that are occasionally penetrated by the worst of the other side, and the entire system is in an escalating panic about…
2022 · its alternatives →
5
Lattice Engagement▲143
Engagement surveys combined with performance data
2018 · lattice.com · its alternatives →
6
Datazar 2.0▲118
Advanced, cloud-based research collaboration
2017 · datazar.com · its alternatives →
7
Data for Good▲62
Share data-driven projects for social good.
2014 · dataforgood.co · its alternatives →
8
Crowdflower▲68
Enterprise crowdsourcing for micro-tasks
2014 · crowdflower.com · its alternatives →
9
Quirell▲72
A social network by and for marginalized people (Indiegogo)
2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
10
Reframer▲81
Qualitative research tool for discovering patterns/themes
2015 · optimalworkshop.com · its alternatives →
11
NotebookJS▲109
Scientific computation for JavaScript
2016 · datazar.com · its alternatives →
12
Electionland▲12
Crowdsourcing coverage of voter problems using social media
2016 · propublica.org · its alternatives →
13
SeqPlots▲4
Interactive software for exploratory data analyses
2016 · przemol.github.io · its alternatives →
14
CirclePanel▲92
End to end User Research Platform
Jul 2026 · circlepanel.com · its alternatives →
15
Swarmize▲82
Data journalism platform from The Guardian
2014 · alpha.swarmize.com · its alternatives →
16
The Science Party▲4
A political platform based on SCIENCE
2016 · facebook.com · its alternatives →
17
DataKind▲69
A nonprofit connecting data workers and social orgs
2014 · datakind.org · its alternatives →
18
Maslow▲78
A new social opinions platform
2016 · its alternatives →
19
Discourse▲43
New open source discussion platform from Jeff Atwood.
2014 · discourse.org · its alternatives →
20
Candidate Crunch▲67
Voter engagement through a mobile game
2016 · urthworx.com · its alternatives →
21
Envisioning Cities▲78
Track innovation shaping the future of cities.
2020 · cities.envisioning.io · its alternatives →
22
Countable▲73
Direct Democracy with Countable
2014 · myactionable.com · its alternatives →
23
I built a dashboard of official data ahead of French elections▲53
Construisons ensemble un tableau de bord de données neutres et vérifiables
2022 · lafrance.enchiffres.fr · its alternatives →
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Hora del Tech - 21: El Poder del Crowdsourcing: Ahorrar y Escalar Eficazmente with Jorge Garcia▲53
(Spanish) talk about Crowdsourcing for politcal voting
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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