Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SocialHideouts Forum
A general/lifestyle forum to chat your heart away!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SocialHideouts Forum launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN! https://flat.social is a web video meeting app for organising fun online meetings & social events. Each participant can move around and talk with others in their proximity. Here is a quick demo if you wanna see it in action: https://youtu.be/Y2yH3twjrx4 I’ve been on it solo for around a year right now. Tech used is Next.js, Typescript, PIXI.js on the front-end and Node, Mediasoup, Socket.io and Matter.js (physics engine) on the backend. Feel free to jump in into the demo room (https://flat.social/f/Flat.Social-Demo) to say hi, I’ll be…
2022 · flat.social · its alternatives →
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Sociables▲81The all-in-one community platform for creators and niches
2023 · sociables.com · its alternatives →
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Slack for daily life -- channels for any group
2017 · soch.at · its alternatives →
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Get a Spotify like recap of your Slack/Discord community
2022 · its alternatives →
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SocialSports▲66Free low threshold sports activities and meeting new people!
2022 · socialsports.fi · its alternatives →
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Social Amplification for Your SuperFans
2014 · socialtoaster.com · its alternatives →
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Stryve▲125A tech community to share, learn, and progress your skills
2020 · westryve.com · its alternatives →
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SocialRank▲116Find out more about the people that follow you on twitter.
2014 · idikayuagungpemko.org · its alternatives →
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Display your Slack posts with a great design on big screens
2016 · socialwall.me · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m building Hideout, a small web-based chat app inspired by Discord-style rooms, but stripped down to the minimum. I started this project because I was curious about one specific problem: how do you make a real-time chat app feel alive with very few users? Right now: Hideout has ~35 users One main room Text chat only No moderation tools, bots, or servers to configure The app is intentionally simple. When someone joins, they’re dropped directly into the active room so conversations aren’t fragmented. The hardest issue so far has been the cold start problem — users joining at different…
2025 · joinhideout.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Screel▲105Connect, share & engage with tech enthusiasts
2023 · screel.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hey there, First time posting on Hacker News in about 2 years! The reason I’m posting is that I thought I’d write about the product I’ve been building, in hopes it resonates with people. Why build yet another social app? Because I deleted almost all social media around 3/4 years ago as it was just net negative on my life. There was very little that was truly interesting, I didn’t care about looking good to other people and because of the ‘media’ and ads, the apps were all designed to make me spend too much time for what I was getting. I hated it and what it meant for people’s behaviour,…
2022 · oncircles.com · its alternatives →
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Social media search & analytics for pros and the rest of us
2014 · socialight.io · its alternatives →
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