AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Why hanging out on Hacker News is a good use of your time?
Hey HN, This is a Show HN (poorly) disguised as an Ask HN. I'm launching https://www.parliant.ai, a survey tool that rethinks how surveys are created and answered. Instead of building forms, the survey creator just writes what they want to learn and AI takes it from there, chatting with respondents to get meaningful answers. To show how it works, I’ve created a short demo survey with the question in the title. The idea is for you to try it out and see the respondent experience, which is really the core of the innovation. I’d love to get your answers and your feedback. The survey is…
Parliant is an AI-powered survey tool that simplifies survey creation and responses. Instead of building traditional forms, creators describe what they want to learn and the AI automatically generates conversational… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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We’ve trained a generative AI model to browse the web and answer questions/retrieve code snippets directly. Unlike ChatGPT, it has access to primary sources and is able to cite them when you hover over an answer (click on the text to go to the source being cited). We also show regular Bing results side-by-side with our AI answer. The model is an 11-billion parameter T5-derivative that has been fine-tuned on feedback given on hundreds of thousands of searches done (anonymously) on our platform. Giving the model web access lessens its burden to need to store a snapshot of human knowledge…
2022 · beta.sayhello.so · its alternatives →
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AI Survey Maker▲107Make or import a survey in seconds with ChatGPT
2023 · fillout.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I'm a high school teacher from Australia and I've built what I'd like to think is a pretty nifty ChatGPT powered presentation tool for teachers. I'd love it if you could have a look at it and give me some of your feedback. I don't think there's much overlap with the HN crowd and school teachers, but I've been coming here for many years and thought I'd post here and see what you all think. Check it out if you have a minute and I'd be super happy to hear your feedback too. https://www.slidehero.ai/ You can jump in and have a play with the tool all you like ;) Cheers, Eli
2025 · its alternatives →
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Quick Survey AI▲148Create survey in seconds with ChatGPT, send for free
2023 · static.edusign.com · its alternatives →
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AI Menti Builder▲394AI generated polls, surveys and quizzes
2024 · mentimeter.com · its alternatives →
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Get instant answers about your survey results with Sprig AI
2023 · app.sprig.com · its alternatives →
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Arsturn AI▲211Generate a ChatGPT for your website In 1 minute
2023 · arsturn.com · its alternatives →
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Generative AI to research, validate & scale your business
2024 · crawlq.ai · its alternatives →
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AskBetter▲154Don’t waste time building the wrong product - validate AI
2024 · askbetter.dev · its alternatives →
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AI that analyzes your customer experience journey. SurveySparrow powers 100K+ customers in 149 countries to power smarter CX decisions.
2017 · surveysparrow.com · its alternatives →
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Hi friends, I'm Dmitry, co-founder of Ordemio. I'd like to share with you what we have accomplished in 30 days of non-stop, 10-hour workdays. It was launched on August 1st, 2024. Is it good enough to attract our first customers? We have launched a new product in the highly competitive niche of "ChatGPT AI chatbot for a website," facing over 100 existing competitors on purpose. It's a gamble, and I'm unsure if it was the right decision. Feel free to ask any questions. Cheers.
Nov 2025 · ordemio.com · its alternatives →
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Scriptmine▲86I built this for myself. I make videos, and my biggest bottleneck is figuring out what to say to my audience without staring at a blank page. So I built Scriptmine: a tool that listens to Reddit conversations in my niche, finds high-signal topics, and turns them into scripts. How it works: - Track subreddits and discussions relevant to a niche - Rank topics by engagement/momentum - Generate a hook/body/CTA draft in a chosen voice/format
Feb 2026 · scriptmine.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I recently built a tool called Ziggy. Ziggy is a alternative to tools like Typeform except Ziggy uses AI to ask dynamic questions like you would ask when doing an interview with a user with some pretty powerful analytics. It's completely open source and was made to help save time and money doing 1-on-1 interviews with a lot of users in a short amount of time. We're also looking for any and all feedback so let me know what you think! Give it a try here by doing a feedback survey for Ziggy: https://www.useziggy.com/zy/MtAp-d7ebzylr
2024 · useziggy.com · its alternatives →
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Lately I've felt exhausted due to the deluge of AI/GPT posts on hacker news, and have seen similar grumblings. I threw together this frontend that filters out anything with the phrases AI, LLM, GPT, or LLaMa for use until the hype dies down a bit. Before anyone asks, yes I did try to use ChatGPT to help, and while the code it provided was helpful, it needed some heavy bug-fixing. Edit: One other note I forgot to mention. The favicon is generated by Stable Diffusion, I asked it to generate an "Aritificial Intelligence Favicon", and then I added the red circle with line through it.
2023 · save-buffer.github.io · its alternatives →
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I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…
2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →
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I'm heavily relying on Reddit for my online research, but there are many repetitive questions and recommendations on subreddits, so I trained a GPT bot on over 100k r/BuyItForLife comments and posts to embody the collective knowledge of this Reddit community (and soon many other subreddits). Some posts I answered with the bot: - Request Post: Dishwashers. What’s currently the best dishwasher for home use? - Bot Answer: https://www.looria.com/bot?q=what%27s+currently+the+best+dis... - Request Post : Recommendations for hiking shoes? - Bot Answer:…
2023 · looria.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've always found it hard to keep up with the latest AI research, so I built Arxiv Feed! https://arxiv-feed.vercel.app/ It's basically a feed of AI research papers + a one-liner explaining what problem its solving, etc. You can also click on any paper to get a TL;DR. Right now, I've only indexed a few hundred large language model papers, but will expand to indexing AI papers in other topics. Thinking of also adding a way for people to up-vote/down-vote papers. Would love to hear any thoughts/feedback! :D Thanks!
2023 · arxiv-feed.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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