Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Without Permission
Lessons learned from reddit, hipmunk & YC - in book form!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Without Permission launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A few days ago, I responded to a comment by bloggergirl offering to read anyone's web copy and help. I shot off an email hoping for a paragraph or two of feedback on my startup's copy. Instead I received a professional, detailed deck of tons of invaluable well thought out feedback. It must have taken her an entire afternoon. Here's a link to it: http://www.slideshare.net/shereefb/recommendations-for-bettermeans To top it off, this isn't someone with a lot of free time on her hands, she's only days away from launching her own startup (page99test) This community blows my mind!
2010 · slideshare.net · its alternatives →
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A reddit podcast for all the stories behind the stories
2015 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Forget Me▲108Exercise your Google "right to be forgotten" easily
2014 · semji.com · its alternatives →
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I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…
2023 · zsync.xyz · its alternatives →
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Subscription based self-experimentation
2015 · doubleblinded.com · its alternatives →
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Relationship between online trolling & mainstream culture
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of the best reddit AMA's
2016 · hellanzb.com · its alternatives →
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Beautifully illustrated and free to read online!
2014 · bookofbadarguments.com · its alternatives →
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Reddit Under 100▲112Stop wasting time on Reddit threads where you won't be seen
2016 · clayburn.wtf · its alternatives →
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Overlead▲146Here's the problem: I launched two products. I wrote blog posts. I posted on X, built in public. I tried running ads. And you know what actually got me customers? Replying to someone on Reddit who asked, "What's the best tool for this?" One reply. Three signups. I felt like an idiot for not doing it sooner. But here's the issue: I don't have time to refresh Reddit all day looking for these posts. I have products to build. Bugs to fix. Emails to answer. Life to live. So I built Overlead to do the searching for me. Overlead scans Reddit, Quora, and Hacker News (and many more to come) for…
Feb 2026 · overlead.co · its alternatives →
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Valuable lessons for writing interesting content.
2016 · blackirishbooks.com · its alternatives →
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An anonymous community for tech professionals
2017 · us.teamblind.com · its alternatives →
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How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Read how we can escape our screen obsessed world
2015 · nointerface.com · its alternatives →
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