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Products that do what Threadbase – Make a HN-style community in minutes. No coding required does

1. 1HA
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2. 2JA
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   2021 · jam.systems

3. 3
   Monocle▲71

   HN-like Community for Tech and Startups (now open source)

   2013

4. 4LT
   Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM▲116

   2013 · blog.paralleluniverse.co

5. 5HC
   HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN▲175

   2018 · hackerforums.co

6. 6
   Flowhub▲85

   Let's Make Code More Playful (Beta Open)

   2014

7. 7SB
   Serverless boilerplate to get started quickly▲52

   2018 · github.com

8. 8LA
   Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly▲141

   2020 · github.com

9. 9IB
   I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas▲127

   I’ve been messing around with Bluesky for a while, and one thing I really missed was a proper way to browse discussions in a structured, Reddit-like way specially myself being daily reddit user. So, I ended up building a Reddit-like client for Bluesky that scratches that itch: Threadsky.app It pulls in trending topics, lets you explore conversations with a threaded view (so no more getting lost in replies), and even allows users to create channels with customizations, basically, like subreddits but on Bluesky. That said, this is still pretty barebones, and there’s a lot to improve. I really…

   2025 · threadsky.app

10. 10RC
    Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks▲152

    2021 · reggit.bubbleapps.io

11. 11UC
    uThreads – Concurrent User Threads in C and C++▲135

    2016 · samanbarghi.com

12. 12
    HiveFlux + Slack▲93

    Real-time task management meets real-time communication

    2015

13. 13AG
    A Gnus Back End for HN▲103

    2019 · github.com

14. 14UA
    Updated Absurd.design for HN Community▲6

    2022 · absurd.design

15. 15SS
    Serverless Scripting for GitHub, Asana, Airtable, and more▲66

    2017 · scripts.blockspring.com

16. 16AD
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    2017 · hashtags.chat

17. 17HA
    Hackend – A Fast Serverless Backend Generator▲54

    2017 · hackend.xyz

18. 18RC
    Realtime Coding Q&A. Stack Overflow meets IRC▲40

    2013 · enginehere.com

19. 19MF
    My first chrome extension based on an HN thread.▲34

    2011 · halfaclick.blogspot.com

20. 20AW
    Actix web 0.4 – simple and extremely fast web framework for Rust▲35

    2018 · github.com

21. 21
    Linkversity▲44

    Onboard people to the codebase quickly

    2025

22. 22RA
    Reddish – an open-source Reddit clone. MERN and Redux▲10

    2021 · github.com

23. 23CJ
    Chunkify.js – A functional API to unblock your JavaScript thread▲29

    2015 · yangmillstheory.github.io

24. 24DA
    “Discuss” – A 100% serverless forum software▲7

    2016 · github.com

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