Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Substack Archive Explorer
Offline search for Substack newsletters
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Discover and discuss great writing on Substack
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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NewsletterStash▲252A curated directory of the best newsletters
2015 · newsletterstash.com · its alternatives →
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Curated daily list of blog posts posted on Hacker News. Click to read HackerNews blogs newsletter, by Paul, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
2020 · hnblogs.substack.com · its alternatives →
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Substack Reader▲173Substacks RSS Reader for their newsletters
2020 · substack.com · its alternatives →
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A search engine for independent newsletters
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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SubSearchr▲971900+ substack newsletters with 16 million+ subscribers
2023 · unapologeticih.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Download any Substack to a neat ZIP archive
Jan 2026 · subsnacker.com · its alternatives →
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A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts
2020 · harishgarg.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Explore your GitHub repositories with ease
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Discover your next favourite blog, aggregator, or community
2018 · readory.com · its alternatives →
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Exstats▲225Track your browser extensions and competitors in one place
May 2026 · exstats.com · its alternatives →
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Substage▲183Hey all! I’m a solo indie dev and I’ve been working on Substage – a Mac app that docks under your Finder window and lets you interact with your files using natural language. Stuff like: • Convert to webp • zip these up • Author of this PDF? • Download this file: • Is this really a PNG? • What's 5 foot 9 in cm? • Open in TextMate Substage converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, or your own local model), runs it, and summarises the output. If it detects something risky, it’ll pause for confirmation before running. Commands run locally on your…
2025 · selkie.design · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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I have a dedicated HN tab that I come back to and reload multiple times a day to see whats new and hot. I wrote a Chrome Extension to: - quickly scan new articles since my last reload - quickly scan highly discussed articles - open actual articles and discussions in a new tab This links to the source code. The chrome extension is linked at the bottom of the github page. Note: - This extension only operates on the HN front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) - The first time you reload the HN front page after installing the extension all articles will get highlighted.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create multiple newsletters & podcasts in one publication
2021 · on.substack.com · its alternatives →
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Find information, resources and relevant links for subpug.com. This domain may be for sale.
2011 · subpug.com · its alternatives →
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It's been 2 years since the initial release [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or load the extension manually. Since then, it remained simple but better, new features include: - Improved accuracy by also using comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right keywords. - Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox (including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge. - Support for narrow screens…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An un-official Substack reader for mobile
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Privacy-preserving Firefox extension linking to Hacker News discussion; built with Bloom filters and WebAssembly - jstrieb/hackernews-button
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Access your incognito mode private browsing history
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…
2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →
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