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24 alternatives to PublishDrive
Self-publishing platform for business-driven indie authors.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PublishDrive launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2021 · indiepaper.me · its alternatives →
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Writebook▲318Instantly publish your own books on the web for free
2024 · once.com · its alternatives →
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Co-author royalty calculating tool for self-published books.
2019 · account.publishdrive.com · its alternatives →
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Playbook▲397Beautiful documentation your customers will love
2025 · playbookdocs.com · its alternatives →
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Playbook▲372Dropbox for creatives to see everything, find anything
2021 · playbook.com · its alternatives →
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PublishDrive▲24Publish your ebook globally within 60 seconds
2015 · publishdrive.com · its alternatives →
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Make Google Docs good-looking in two clicks
2016 · gdoc.pub · its alternatives →
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Advanced self-publishing tools to let tech-savvy writers produce ebooks, publish them for sale online, find an audience, and build a business.
2014 · softcover.io · its alternatives →
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Bookster.cc ▲258Transform your knowledge into captivating ebooks in minutes.
2025 · bookstera.com · its alternatives →
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New custom tool for Medium's publishers
2016 · publishers.medium.com · its alternatives →
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Distribute your Google Document in a whole new way
2020 · its alternatives →
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Launch your own publication with a custom domain
2015 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I made a thing! This is by far the most work I've ever sunk into a side project; I've been working on this thing for over two years, and I'm super proud of it, even though there's still a lot more to do! Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for ebooks with synced narration. This is basically self-hosted WhisperSync, for anyone familiar with that Amazon product. It's currently made up of two self-hostable backend systems and a mobile app for reading and listening to the books it produces. Technically it uses an open spec, EPUB 3's "Media Overlay", for syncing the narration, but very few…
2023 · smoores.gitlab.io · its alternatives →
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Top-rated PR distribution services for startups and agencies. Submit your press release to 500+ premium news outlets with our automated platform.
2021 · hexo.press · its alternatives →
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2018 · peerdium.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built Bookhead because I used to work as a bookseller and I wasn't happy with the software options when I decided to sell my own collection online (with the hopes of one day growing so I can open my own brick & mortar). So I decided to make my own bookselling app...a classic hacker distraction. Bookhead has two main parts: 1. an inventory management app that allows a bookseller to list their books anywhere they want to sell books (like Squarespace, Biblio, eBay, Shopify (coming soon!), etc) 2. an e-commerce platform with a CMS for selling books and letting a store control their…
2025 · bookhead.net · its alternatives →
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Massdriver▲95Platform engineering for growing software teams
2022 · massdriver.cloud · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made a tool for self-publishing authors called SelfPubKit.com. The all-in-one editor allows you to write chapters, export them to epub, pdf. You can also publish product as a standalone website with direct payments set up with your Stripe account which means you get 100% of payments minus Stripe’s fee. The idea came about when I wanted to write a short guide myself. Anyhow, let me know what you think. I’ll share tech details in the comment below.
2023 · its alternatives →
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Author▲114Create and publish documents to the web, instantly.
2015 · authorapp.co · its alternatives →
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