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24 alternatives to The Allusionist - Bonus 2015

A melange of listener-requested etymologies

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Allusionist - Bonus 2015 launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   The Allusionist - WLTM part II▲1

   Spreadsheets, linguistics, and love

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2EC
   Experimental chat written in Common Lisp▲114

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3NA
   NimForum – A lightweight alternative to Discourse▲186

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4PA
   Podscripter – Automated Transcription for Podcasters▲153

   2018 · podscripter.co · its alternatives →

5. 5AA
   Arguman – Argument Analysis Platform▲170

   2015 · en.arguman.org · its alternatives →

6. 6RA
   Rant, a procedural text generation language▲155

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7WQ
   Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors▲221

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Allen NLP▲72

   An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9EI
   Etymap – interactive visualization of Wiktionary words and etymologies▲54

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Audiologs - 001: Welcome▲55

    A personal audio journal experiment

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    The Probe #1: The Teaser▲65

    Satirical take on popular magazine-style news podcasts

    2016 · its alternatives →

12. 12IB
    Inspired by a HN comment, half stars proposed for Unicode [pdf]▲55

    2016 · files.righto.com · its alternatives →

13. 13PT
    Poemr: The Imgur of Poetry▲5

    2013 · poemr.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    FiveThirtyEight - Totally Subjective Odds▲72

    A pre-launch experiment for their new politics podcast

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15BA
    Building a “Babel Fish”, realtime translation of voice calls▲45

    2018 · nexmo.com · its alternatives →

16. 16SA
    SeeMeSpeak, a crowd-sourced dictionary for sign languages▲25

    2013 · kaeff.net · its alternatives →

17. 17AE
    An encoding/decoding tool for Martin David's theoretical S language▲24

    2016 · ramadis.github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18NA
    NimForum – A lightweight alternative to Discourse▲15

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Etymap▲1

    Visualization of Wiktionary words and etymologies

    2018 · its alternatives →

20. 20VA
    Verbatim – a simple pastebin▲14

    2016 · verbatim.link · its alternatives →

21. 21LI
    Lost in translations – a fun app of recursive translations▲24

    2015 · lost-in-translations.amanjeev.com · its alternatives →

22. 22II
    Interviewed.io – A growing database of podcast interviews▲14

    2015 · interviewed.io · its alternatives →

23. 23ET
    Efficient translation by Lexiful▲13

    2015 · lexiful.com · its alternatives →

24. 24LA
    Lark, a modern parsing library with Earley and LALR(1) implementations▲15

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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