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24 alternatives to Reproducing TikTok with Django Ninja and React Native
I am about to graduate from university this year, and I had an idea to create a mobile app similar to TikTok but for OnlyFans. Interestingly, the inspiration to replicate TikTok came from an episode of the Acquired Podcast discussing Meituan. It seemed somewhat ironic to copy a Chinese app. I ran out of money to pay rent though, so I’m looking for jobs here in Sydney instead now. I want to keep working on this project in my spare time and would appreciate any feedback and particularly guidance for how to run an open-source project!
This is an open-source mobile application built with Django Ninja and React Native that replicates TikTok's core functionality for content creators. It is designed for developers interested in short-form video… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Reproducing TikTok with Django Ninja and React Native launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years. I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools. Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video…
2025 · pimosa.app · its alternatives →
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The idea is actually quite simple. As a Japanese learner and a coder, I've always wanted there to be an open-source, 100% free for learning Japanese, similar to Monkeytype in the typing community. Unfortunately, pretty much all language learning apps are closed-sourced and paid these days, and the ones that are free have unfortunately been abandoned. But of course, just creating yet another language learning app was not enough - there has to be a unique selling point. And then I thought to myself: why not make it crazy and do what no other language learning app ever did by adding a gazillion…
2025 · kanadojo.com · its alternatives →
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A few years ago, right after high school, I decided to try to make a simultaneous translation app for Android as a side project, it took longer than expected (about 2 years) and I had to make a lot of compromises (I had to use Google's API and therefore make users use a developer key because at the time there were no free solutions for speech recognition and translation that had good quality). At the end of university, I decided to pick it up again and finally, using OpenAi's Whisper for speech recognition and Meta's NLLB for translation (with both running locally on the phone), I managed to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey - I've been playing with LLMs since GPT-2 and recently experimented with fully generative UIs where the HTML/Canvas are generated just-in-time. Every post on the feed( on slop/duck/storytime) you see is streamed and generated just-in-time with HTML and into a Canvas with Gemini 3 Flash. Comments and DMs are bidirectionally linked with a Cloudflare Workers Durable Object which is why they feel so fast. Every generated post is saved into a DO SQLite which is then served into the "Following" feed so it can be served quicker. This was inspired by Wikitok, a VSCode Extension I…
Jan 2026 · quack.sdan.io · its alternatives →
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TikAI▲81Generate AI-powered scripts, trending hashtags, and captions
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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this is an open-source project. the MVP to end all MVPs. made by me, a teenage developer angry at FAANG employees for creating a soulless, consumer-oriented world. The future is in creation, and the future is in teaching people to slam shit together with ChatGPT. Welcome to the start. :P
2024 · 48hr.dev · its alternatives →
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Tikpal▲24We’re building Tikpal, an AI voice productivity tool based on a simple principle: Human creativity should remain the core engine. AI should be an accelerator, not the protagonist. The goal is to reduce screen dependency and cognitive fragmentation, and let people work in a more natural “voice-first” flow. Instead of clicking through interfaces and context-switching between apps, you talk to Tikpal, and it helps you think, structure ideas, and execute tasks. Three layers we are focusing on: FOCUS — Tools like Pomodoro, breathing cues, ambient audio, and micro-interactions to create sustained…
Dec 2025 · tikpal.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built Scrape Creators: a set of real-time scraping APIs that let you pull fresh data from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Truth Social and more. It's great for: > Feeding social data into AI agents (e.g. summarize latest TikToks about a product) > Analyzing creators based on their posts, bios, hashtags, and music > Getting video transcripts, post captions, music metadata, and engagement stats in real time No signup required to browse the docs: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/ Test it out: https://scrapecreators.com Would love any feedback or questions!…
2025 · scrapecreators.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone! I always found it hard to find new research papers outside of my usual bubble. I thought a random feed (with no recommendation algorithms) might be a fun way to explore. But I also didn’t want to waste time on completely unrelated stuff — so the idea of a fast, swipeable format came to mind. Wikitok was a real inspiration! But Arxiv and Open Review APIs weren’t as robust as Wikipedia, so I pulled the papers into a Postgres backend. Right now, I’ve indexed papers from a few recent ML conferences to see if this might be useful for others too. No signups required and it’s…
2025 · artok.app · its alternatives →
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I'm a musician by night, software developer by day, and one of the minor frustrations I've always had was trying to find a simple tuner app for my phone. Looking at both the iOS and Android app stores, you'll find a lot of the top tuner apps are rather bloated with ads or subscription callouts. I thought I'd create a dead-simple minimalistic mobile chromatic tuner the way I would like it - open the app and tune my guitar. My work is in web with NodeJS and React, so I chose React Native since it was the easiest to understand coming from React. Flutter was also an option since the company I…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We would love to hear your thoughts on our new client-side adaptation framework called Mobify.js. We've worked extremely hard on this product for a year and a half now, and we recently went open source with it. We use it internally to create mobile websites for our customers, and we would love for the rest of the world to use it too. Here is our first blog post on it: http://www.mobify.com/blog/introducing-mobify-js/. Once again, feedback would be awesome - go ahead and be brutally honest :)
2012 · mobify.com · its alternatives →
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Hello! I built a web-app called JungleReader that lets you follow RSS, Mastodon, YouTube, Reddit, and random blogs, all in one place. I made JungleReader as a central place to follow the blogs and sites I like, which I otherwise often lose track of. My next project (which is WIP) is a web-app called JungleWriter where you can build a simple blog and export it for hosting. I love finding a good, free-standing blog, and hope to make it easier for people to read and write them. Feedback is appreciated, thanks :)
2023 · zajungle.com · its alternatives →
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I have always dreamed of learning Swift and creating apps for iOS, but I never found the motivation to do so. I was scared by the complexity and the learning curve of programming with UIKit and Storyboard. I thought they were too complicated and too boring for me. But then I discovered SwiftUI, the new framework for building user interfaces for Apple platforms. I was captivated by its simplicity and elegance. I watched some videos and read some articles about it and I was blown away by what it could do. I decided to give it a shot and see if I could learn it and make something with it. I set…
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, Today I want to show you my litle project that I've been working on these couple of weeks! I realy want your honest opinion and I hope to hear your 2 cents! Here's: NinjaReply - (http://NinjaReply.appspot.com) is a litle app that tries to help you save money and make all the best decisions regarding your site / web app / etc. With the help of our Ninja reviewers - NinjaReply can offer you quality feedback on your site's design or even the features of your app. Everybody can become a Ninja reviewer - and also can earn some money! *Every Ninja reviewer gets 10 cents for every review…
2011 · ninjareply.appspot.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! I'm a long-time Android dev and shorter-time iOS dev. I work on this cool project called Literal (https://www.literal.ai/devs). Demo available without any signup requirement: https://literal.ai/hn You can upload your own app recording or use a sample of the Calm app. Literal will map out the screens on an interactive canvas. I built Literal, because I often field a lot of questions from PMs and other folks about what the new app release looks like. I used to send out screenshots in Slack and manually document analytics events as well as what APIs were hit.…
2022 · literal.ai · its alternatives →
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GitTok▲5Inspired by and a fork of WikiTok, I wanted to build something that lets you explore github repos in a tiktok like format
2025 · gittok.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm Jack, the maker of ExportTok. I built this tool because I spent hours manually copy-pasting TikTok comments for market research and wanted an easier way. With ExportTok, you can quickly export all comments from any TikTok video to CSV or Excel for analysis. You do need to sign up to use it, but you don't need a TikTok account or credentials. The data includes usernames, timestamps, and engagement metrics. So far, users have exported over 500,000 comments. Would love feedback: 1. What other data fields would be helpful? 2. Any privacy concerns? 3. Suggestions for use cases or…
Nov 2025 · exporttok.com · its alternatives →
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Build a TikTok Clone in Minutes
2020 · codecanyon.net · its alternatives →
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I'm doing a new Show HN[1] as we have now made this open source, and got some interest in comments in the past few days. We initially built this app for some friends in a co-living community - they were using pen and paper to track who's attending lunch - but it was error-prone. First I suggested a shared Google Sheets or Calendar, but that was also messy to maintain. Eventually, I developed something just for them. They used it for a couple of years, they loved it and wanted to use it for more things, too. So I took all the learnings from what was now the MVP, and with some friends we now…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Niceggie▲1AI-powered TikTok creator outreach, right in your browser
Jul 2026 · niceggie.com · its alternatives →
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Human-operated US TikTok publishing for global teams
Sep 2026 · usenativeport.com · its alternatives →
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#contentcreator #tiktok #youtubeshorts #aitools
May 2026 · tryserieslab.com · its alternatives →
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