Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Surfboard - A flippable way to experience the web in HTML5/CSS3
I love to use Flipboard on my iPad, but I was bummed that the experience couldn't follow me to the phone or desktop, so I decided to do something about it... I built http://ridesurfboard.com over the winter holiday and just finished it up last night, so I wanted to share it with the HN community first. The app turns any website with an RSS feed into a more human, flippable format. It's all HTML5/CSS3/JS and works best in either desktop Safari or on an iOS device, although you can use Chrome if you enable the experimental GPU Accelerated Compositing flag (a how-to is on the Surfboard blog).…
Surfboard transforms any website with an RSS feed into a flippable, magazine-style reading experience using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Designed for users who want Flipboard-like functionality across devices, it works… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Surfboard - A flippable way to experience the web in HTML5/CSS3 launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Surf▲190Flipboard's new app for browsing the open social web
2024 · about.surf.social · its alternatives →
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Flipboard 4.0▲418Personalize deeper with smart magazines
2017 · about.flipboard.com · its alternatives →
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Flipboard 3.0▲311Discover, collect and share all the news you care about
2014 · flipboard.com · its alternatives →
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Although the page itself is more just fun to have made and look at (I like the flip sound), the fun part is how I made it to verify the (and I hate to say it) vibe host service I've been working on. The recent flip board back and forth's on Twitter (X) are what inspired me. The idea here is that people (like me or you) can create something neat like this, and others can remix it, change it and publish their own version. This is that all in action and it worked great. I wrote a blog about it (the blog is dogfooding, it's just an app hosted on quickish that uses the built in db lib). For the…
Jun 2026 · popflame.quickish.space · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm excited to reveal Surfboard to you all! Surfboard is a widget that enables you to share your Arduino code as a URL link or HTML embed. People interacting with your widget can edit, compile and upload the code into their Arduino board--right in the browser. Surfboard supports over 170 boards and over 4,200 libraries, so rest assured you can share quite a large variety of Arduino projects here :) More on tech stack: - Backend is Node.js and Go with MongoDB database, with most of the codebase a derivative of the Duino App project (https://duino.app/) - React…
2022 · sfbd.is · its alternatives →
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Bonboarding▲164Guide your users to understand your web app
2023 · bonboarding.com · its alternatives →
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Snapboard▲555An editable/hackable dashboard - unlimited & free
2019 · snapboard.io · its alternatives →
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Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc. - Adblock Plus memory consumption · gorhill/httpswitchboard Wiki
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Simone. We re-built Breadboard, a visual app builder that mixes Figma-style UI design with Shortcuts-style logic so you can build, preview, and publish interactive web apps directly from the canvas. What it does Design UIs visually with a flexible canvas –like Figma–. Define app logic with a visual, instruction-stacked editor inspired by Shortcuts. Live preview apps directly on the canvas –no separate preview window–. Publish working web apps with one click. Why we made it Modernize the HyperCard idea: combine layout, behavior, and instant sharing in one place. Reduce friction…
Feb 2026 · breadboards.io · its alternatives →
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flip disc build guide
2024 · flipdisc.io · its alternatives →
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Slidepage 1.0▲282Create engaging and swipeable stories-on-the-web, for free
2020 · its alternatives →
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Dash is a fun and free online course from General Assembly that teaches you how to program with the basics of web development through projects you can do right in your browser. Get started today!
2012 · scratchpad.io · its alternatives →
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Motherboard▲388I started working on my ideas a few months ago. I've shipped 4 apps so far. I love my numbers, so every morning I'd go through the payments dashboard, analytics, bug reports, feature requests, and everything else for each app. I wished for a single place to view it all, so I built Motherboard. It runs locally in the browser and tracks any visible data point from any website with just a click. A single dashboard for everything. Life's good.
2025 · trymotherboard.com · its alternatives →
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Deta Surf▲340Hi HN! We got frustrated with the fragmented experience of exploring & creating across our file manager, the web and document apps. Lots of manual searching, opening windows & tabs, scrolling, and ultimately copying & pasting into a document editor. Surf is a desktop app meant for simultaneous research and thinking to minimize the grunt work. It’s made of two parts: 1) A multi-media library where you can save and organize files and webpages into collections called Notebooks. 2) A LLM-powered smart document which you can auto-generate using the context from any stored page, tab or entire…
2024 · deta.surf · its alternatives →
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We are longtime members of HN and this is our only submission requesting feedback from the HN community on our product, Clipboard which we have been developing for the past year. Clipboard is a service to save anything online using a bookmarklet or browser extension (think Dropbox for content on the web). Clipboard is built using open source technologies, including Riak, Redis, NGINX, Node.js, and jQuery. One of our core differentiators is how we preserve the visual look and functionality of the original source, which is evident in the sample clips from github here:…
2012 · its alternatives →
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Surfboard▲66Easiest way to see what's going on around you!
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ShareTheBoard▲139Your real whiteboard online - legible, interactive, secure
2022 · sharetheboard.com · its alternatives →
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