Growth · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to The Newscene
FB groups meet Mailchimp. Build your own social community.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Newscene launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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MailPort▲212Send your MailChimp newsletter to Facebook Messenger
2018 · patrioten.news · its alternatives →
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morningmate▲278Your team’s own work social media platform
2023 · morningmate.com · its alternatives →
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Commune▲262Community platform built for customer success teams
2022 · commune.us · its alternatives →
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Hey, I’m Dave, the founder of Kontxt.io (https://www.kontxt.io). Engage directly on the web and save, organize, and share highlights and notes. Follow people. Join groups. And search content. Here’s a 2-minute demo (https://youtu.be/Th4vaOzuGnU). It works on desktop and mobile. The web layer is like Google-Doc collaboration on the entire web, and it’s connected to a web app that’s like a combo of DropBox to save and organize your findings, and Twitter/Reddit to share and discover bite-sized article highlights with other people. 1.) The Social Web Layer has rich…
2022 · kontxt.io · its alternatives →
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Discuss trending topics, news, and live events in real-time
2018 · amity.io · its alternatives →
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Create your private social network dedicated to your event
2017 · eventer.cc · its alternatives →
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I made what I believe is a joyful slow social media. Would love to know what you think!
2023 · bloom.tendtoyourgarden.xyz · its alternatives →
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Connect your Teams to Email, Twitter & Facebook
2017 · mailclark.ai · its alternatives →
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Turn your chat widget into a multifunctional marketing tool
2021 · livechat.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, we're reposting from our previous Show HN about 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644205 Since then we've grown to more than 5k users across nearly 1k groups and have sent out more than 100k update prompts. The premise is simple - social media stinks and you either don't see updates from people you care about (they never post) or you miss the updates (flooded by other people's updates or an algorithm that downplays an update you'd care about even if it's seemingly unimportant). And we're ramen profitable (more so now that we've migrated the majority…
May 2026 · togetherletters.com · its alternatives →
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