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24 alternatives to Telescope

Open-source HN clone built with Meteor

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Telescope launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1TA
Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor▲222
2012 · telesc.pe · its alternatives →
2
Scopemount▲106
Beautiful themes for Telescope
2015 · its alternatives →
3YA
Yet another HN clone, this time geared towards astrophysics research▲5
2024 · ec2-16-171-47-81.eu-north-1.compute.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →
4
Discover Meteor SE▲86
A free Starter Edition of Discover Meteor
2014 · book.discovermeteor.com · its alternatives →
5
Meteor▲107
Platform for building web apps in a fraction of the time
2014 · meteor.com · its alternatives →
6
Meteor 1.0▲226
Build apps faster than you ever thought possible
2014 · meteor.com · its alternatives →
7
Telescope▲459
The easiest way to launch your own Product Hunt-like site
2015 · telescopeapp.org · its alternatives →
8
FeathersJS▲183
A truly open source, community driven Meteor alternative
2016 · feathersjs.com · its alternatives →
9
I’m working on a book about Meteor. You can read it online for free.▲9
2014 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
10
Crater Podcast - 79: Javascript news with a Meteor twist▲65
Josh Owens and Ben Strahan talk about news on Crater.io
2015 · its alternatives →
11
Meteor Pad▲91
Easiest way to try out Meteor.js
2014 · meteorpad.com · its alternatives →
12TA
Telescope, a news reader app▲90
I got fed up with the news reader apps out there so I decided to make my own. Its a simple concept where it tracks all your favorite news sources for new posts and the social shares it received. Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes. It's not meant to be alternative to HN, just a focused way to track your favorite sources. Please try it out and let me know what do you think, http://telescope.surf/ Note: you can do 'Add to Homescreen' on mobile to make it as an app. Please leave a feedback or any feature wishlist you may have. Thanks!
2017 · its alternatives →
13
PixelSpace▲68
A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →
14
Discover Meteor - 5: Collections▲65
Understanding Meteor Collections
2015 · its alternatives →
15HC
HN clone for science▲10
Hi, I installed that HN clone for all things science. Most likely there are already others out there already, but I thought it's worth a try. Let me know what you think about the idea and what features you would like to see...a search function is on its way...Thanks in advance! http://www.heurekalab.com
2011 · heurekalab.com · its alternatives →
16
Monocle▲71
HN-like Community for Tech and Startups (now open source)
2013 · monocle.io · its alternatives →
17
Meatier▲79
A meteor alternative. Like meteor, but meatier
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Meteor Kitchen▲8
A code generator for Meteor.js
2016 · meteorkitchen.com · its alternatives →
19WB
we built a blog platform in Meteor▲9
2013 · blog.percolatestudio.com · its alternatives →
20
Helios▲66
An extensible open-source mobile backend framework
2014 · globalli.io · its alternatives →
21
HN+▲92
Launch your very own HackerNews clone & grow your community
2023 · hn.plus · its alternatives →
22
Planetarium▲61
An 8-bit planet generator
2015 · managore.itch.io · its alternatives →
23
hibi▲63
an open-source obsidian alternative
15h ago · hibi.garden · its alternatives →
24LI
LambdaNews.io, an HN client built with Vue▲9
2018 · lambdanews.io · its alternatives →

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