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24 alternatives to Textnet.io – The Internet of Text
Textnet.io is a text-based platform launched in 2017 that connects users through written communication. It serves people interested in text-focused interaction and content sharing. The platform emphasizes simplicity… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Textnet.io – The Internet of Text launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Texted.io▲126Send text blasts to groups, receive individual replies
2017 · texted.io · its alternatives →
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Medium 2.0▲1,131A new look, app, and features to move thinking forward
2015 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · pen.io · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I’ve made this bot, it fetches every story that enters the HN Top 10, summarizes it with AI to a tweet-sized textlog note and publishes it. textlog.cc offers these endpoints as RSS/Atom through textlog.cc/u/hn10.rss and textlog.cc/u/hn10.atom so you can subscribe easily. Enjoy!
Aug 2026 · textlog.cc · its alternatives →
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Visually build multichannel messaging bots and launch them anywhere in the world.
2013 · textit.in · its alternatives →
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Medium 3.0▲858Next step of an exciting new phase and the Partners Program
2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Elai.io▲412Generate video content with human narrators from just text
2022 · elai.io · its alternatives →
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Hello all, This is my second year of working on a project[1] with the goal of browsing the web, on an Android smartphone, without reliance on Wi-Fi or mobile data. While this concept might seem aimless, my goal was to provide a way for people in areas with limited, expensive, or censored cellular internet access a way to view the web in a basic format. I finished work on a basic client-server model last year[2], and this year, I implemented a new pseudo-distributed peer-to-peer model that allows any TxtNet Browser user to use their own smartphone to run a background server service that…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Medium▲409Everyone's stories, now w/ an inline editor, tags & stream
2015 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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text.ai▲342Group chat app that remembers plans and helps you meet IRL
2025 · text.ai · its alternatives →
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2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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Text Agent Store▲304A marketplace for AI agents you can text
Sep 2026 · imessage.store · its alternatives →
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2019 · able.bio · its alternatives →
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