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Life & fun · June 30, 2020

Linkwind

Create your own Hacker News platform in less than 60 seconds

Linkwind launched on June 30, 2020 with 15 votes, #979 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Linkwind is a simple link aggregation and discussion platform. You can create your own custom news sharing platform so you and anyone in your community can share links, ask for advice and collect feedback. It's basically like Hacker News for everyone.

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