The Best 40 Hacker News Alternatives

  • Steemit icon

    Steemit

    A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting, and content regarded valuable is rewarded with money.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Slashdot icon

    Slashdot

    News for nerds, stuff that matters. Slashdot (aka /.) is a technology-related news and discussion site with a focus on Linux, free and open source software and information freedom and privacy issues.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Lobsters icon

    Lobsters

    lobsters is a technology-focused link-aggregation site. the site is driven by ruby on rails with the source code being freely available for those seeking to create a site similar to reddit or hackernews.

    Free Open Source Web Ruby on Rails

  • spreadit icon

    spreadit

    spreadit is a link aggregator and bullshit generator.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Newscombinator icon

    Newscombinator

    Newscombinator: Aggregated news from HN, Reddit, Slashdot, Firespotting, Woodspotting, Makernews and more.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

  • Indie Hackers icon

    Indie Hackers

    Founders share the revenue numbers behind their profitable apps, side projects, and businesses, and give in-depth interviews about how they did it.

    Free Web

  • Empeopled icon

    Empeopled

    Empeopled is a content-sharing community that Pays a dividend when people up-vote your posts and comments Gives you more influence based on the amount of up-votes...

    Free Android iPhone Web

  • MetaFilter icon

    MetaFilter

    Weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web.

    Free Web

  • Allthink icon

    Allthink

    Grow your audience with a custom news community. Users can signup, submit links, like them, and comment. Style the look and feel of your community to match your brand. Use any domain or subdomain you wish for your community. Free and easy.

    Free Web

  • Linkibl icon

    Linkibl

    Linkibl is where you can discover and share the Internet's most interesting content every day.

    Free Web

  • demcra icon

    demcra

    The democratic reddit alternative.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Criticl icon

    Criticl

    We wanted to offer a totally open and level publishing platform for decentralized grassroots journalism and general political discourse.

    Free Windows Web

  • Old Pluto icon

    Old Pluto

    Old Pluto is a news search engine. Rather than offering you recommendations of what to read like other websites, Old Pluto aims to give you tools to find what you think is important for yourself.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Echo JS icon

    Echo JS

    Echo JS is a community-driven news site entirely focused on JavaScript development, HTML5, and front-end news.

    Free Open Source Web

  • SoylentNews icon

    SoylentNews

    News aggregation site that deliver articles about technology, science, and general interest.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Commentum icon

    Commentum

    A Social Network without voting or likes, just comments. The more momentum your entry builds, the higher it get in the feed.

    Free Web