Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Thingsand.me is a minimalist image blogging platform designed to prioritize photos over traditional blog features. Built during the holidays, it lets users create simple visual blogs with an emphasis on simplicity and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   I built a frontpage for personal blogs▲783

   With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

   Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app · its alternatives →

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   blogstatic.io▲581

   A bit of context… I've been building https://blogmaker.app since April 2021, 5 years now. The launch tweet: https://x.com/BlogmakerApp/status/1383742023627247630 I had built it initially as a personal challenge to see if I could have a working product for 20 hours worth of work, and I did it. This was way before AI tools. A few months later, I included a Stripe button and the first payment came immediately in. In September 2022 I decided to focus (give up my contract gigs as a designer/dev). I took out a personal loan for $20K and then an angel…

   2024 · blogmaker.app · its alternatives →

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   Pagecord▲122

   Hey HN I’ve been at a loose end for the past few days so I decided to build a thing. I’m largely devoid of original ideas so I built a (micro-) blogging app with a slight twist: you run it using email. All you need is an email account. No new tools to wrangle. No password to forget. Compose in your favourite email editor and send to a secret address. Pagecord does the rest. It's great for bloggy long-form writing, but it’s maybe even more fun for micro-blogging your thoughts as you would a Twitter feed (you can subscribe to people/blogs using RSS). I figured nobody would pay so it's…

   2024 · pagecord.com · its alternatives →

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   I just launched a new blogging platform▲43

   2012 · blog.brytter.com · its alternatives →

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   Hyvor Blogs▲90

   Hi HN, We are super excited to launch our second SaaS product, Hyvor Blogs. We (a small team of 3) have been working on this for about a year. After a bunch of testing, feedback, and iterations, here we are at the launch. We are trying to build a blogging platform that has all the features you need to run a blog without having to depend on plugins (themes, SEO, multi-language support, tags, team management, etc.). Most importantly, it’s just a blogging platform - not a site builder - not a membership platform. Overall, it’s been a great learning experience working on Hyvor Blogs. We’d love…

   2023 · blogs.hyvor.com · its alternatives →

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   Twitter▲37

   Really short blog posts, unclear if it'll take off at all

   2014 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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   Projecteo▲60

   The tiny Instagram projector.

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   Crafty▲73

   Greeting and social media post creator

   2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Clendar, a Minimal Calendar App▲6

   Hello and Happy New Year HN! Hope all the bests in 2022. So I've been working on a minimal calendar app , named Clendar (Calendar without an 'a'). I know, it's not a good SEO name, but I will go with it :) I've been building Clendar on my spare time. At first, it's just a side weekend project so that I can learn new Apple technologies, but, the app came to the point of usability that I think I should publish on the App Store anyway for the world to know and use it. Besides, I have been trying to design the app for minimal and usability in mind. Also, the app is fully open-source, as a way…

   2022 · its alternatives →

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    Quickpost▲10

    Hi HN, I’ve been building a small social network where the feed is always chronological — newest posts come first, always. It’s not 100% algorithm-free (there’s still basic filtering to avoid spam or abuse), but the core idea is that every user has a real chance to be seen, even with zero followers. It’s lightweight, works well on mobile, and supports both posts and comments. Most of the content is currently in Portuguese, since it started with a Brazilian audience, but the interface is mostly language-neutral. I’d love any feedback on the concept, UX, performance, or anything else. Thanks!

    2025 · qqpost.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    A Community for Indie Tech Blogs▲16

    Hey HN! For a while I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to find a community for tech bloggers to get together and share what they’re working on, so here’s my attempt at making my own. It’s a completely free website and designed to be super straightforward to use. Functionality wise it’s pretty minimalist right now, with just the ability to register accounts, post drafts, and comment on other user’s posts. Support for more features like tagging post topics, user profiles and more are coming soon! Thanks for checking it out, and I’d love to hear any thoughts from the community. P.S. if you don’t…

    2024 · review.caleb.software · its alternatives →

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    Weekend project - onepic.me▲7

    I had this domain for some time and I never got around to make a project for it. This last weekend I finally managed to find a few hours to work on it and I've just finished putting the code into production. The site lets you choose some pictures from your Facebook photos and then it will let other users vote on them, as long as they know your URL. This way you can find your best picture. Some random facts the HN crowd will appreciate: - Technologies: Tornado, mongodb and memcache, served with nginx - The site took around 5 hours to design and write (including time spent in Photoshop and…

    2011 · onepic.me · its alternatives →

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    GoNevis, a blogging platform▲9

    Hey, This is my first Show HN. I've built GoNevis, a blogging platform where people can have a blog. It's in a very early stage but has its core features that people would expect from such system. Main website: https://www.gonevis.com/ Announcement post: https://blog.gonevis.com/gonevis-the-blogging-platform/ I appreciate your feedbacks.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    A Really Simple Blog Platform▲19

    2012 · throwww.com · its alternatives →

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    Post for Me▲17

    Building integrations for TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn got frustrating with how different every platform is with auth setup, rate limits, and media requirements. So we built Post for Me: one REST API that handles scheduling and publishing posts for TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Bluesky, and Threads. It's built for developers. You bring your own app credentials from the social platform, so you're in control of your data. There's no limitations on account connections, and pricing is based on usage (not some arbitrary limitations). We…

    2025 · postforme.dev · its alternatives →

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    Campfiree▲14

    I built Campfiree because I got tired of platforms treating users as products. On Campfiree, users submit feature ideas and vote on them weekly. Moderation is handled by randomly selected community juries, no corporate team deciding what's acceptable. It's free with ads or $7/year without (free during beta). We have 55 users so far and ship features every week based on what the community votes for. I'd love honest feedback on the model and the product.

    2025 · campfiree.com · its alternatives →

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    Anonymously share short messages and photos with people around you▲7

    Hello Hacker News! In the past few weeks I've been working on a side project that allows you to post anonymously a short message and a photo that is tied to your location. Other people can see posts around them in a radius of 1 kilometer. Posts are ephemeral and disappear after one day. That's all. It started as an exercise to try to write a geohash index and to try nodejs and Redis. I'm not sure if/how it could be useful. Maybe it could be used as a quick way of sharing something with someone next to you, or to leave a reminder for someone at a specific location. Or it could be abused…

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Simple personal blogging service. Looking forward to feedback▲13

    2015 · followme.co · its alternatives →

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    my weekend project, Imagestash - a bookmarklet+ for image collectors▲9

    http://imagestash.org/ Kind of like Instapaper for images. While surfing at home one evening I found the perfect desktop background ... for my work machine. I got to pondering the quickest way to save a random image so I could get to it on all of my devices, got a wee bit carried away with the technical possibilities, and this was the result. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!

    2011 · imagestash.org · its alternatives →

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    A blog I built with Django and Svelte▲5

    https://rxjourney.com.ng I realize SvelteKit is overkill, but I originally had bigger plans for the blog, before deciding to just keep it simple. Yeah, I had Medium open on a different tab while building. It's going to be a personal blog where I write about my experiences, if you're interested you can subscribe to the newsletter.

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Live Blog▲11

    Inspired by the Social Network Movie. Write it down!

    2021 · unruly-cadet-381.notion.site · its alternatives →

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    A New way of viewing news[My first project]▲6

    Hi all, Made a little app, its at http://newsinamap.com This is my first project and HN was a source of inspiration I thought of sharing it here. Feedback would be appreciated. Thanks for your time.

    2012 · newsinamap.com · its alternatives →

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    Our first app – A geo-blogging iOS app with a 3D globe at its heart▲10

    2014 · cloudit-app.com · its alternatives →

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    Social Shopping▲5

    Hey there HNers, First of all, apologies for the shameless "self-promotion" - just felt like sharing :-) I've just launched a very simple project on the e-commerce front and although I'm currently involved in a few "bigger and bolder" projects, decided to give this a go. It's a DIY e-commerce tool that allows people to setup stores on Facebook, for free. We started this project as a weekend hackathon to help a friend bring her products online and decided to turn it into a product, so there's still definitely a lot to be done. Apart from showing off, this thread is here to start a discussion…

    2011 · getnovelo.com · its alternatives →

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