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Open source alternatives to Product Hunt

50 open source Social apps to use instead, best rated first.

Top picks

  1. D

    Discourse

    Launch

    Discourse is a community platform for discussion forums, support hubs, team chat and product feedback boards. Communities use it for topics, categories and tags, and the hosted plans add moderation tools, custom groups and custom themes. Su

    Open source

  2. P

    Pi-Hole

    Launch

    Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware, using DNS filtering and re-direction Pi-Hole can block ads on a whole network, so Smartphones and Game Consoles can benefit from it in addition to computers.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

  3. B

    Bluesky

    Launch

    A decentralized social network focused on fostering meaningful interactions and giving users control over their data and experience.

    Open source

  4. F

    Flarum

    Launch

    Flarum is free, open-source forum software that is MIT licensed and built by its community. It is lightweight and fast, and it scales from small hobby communities to large forums. Groups and permissions control member access across categori

    FreeOpen source

  5. M

    Mastodon

    Launch

    Mastodon is a free, open-source social network that is decentralized, so it runs on many independent servers that can talk to each other. You pick a server, such as mastodon.social, or another one from the server directory, then follow peop

    FreeOpen source

  6. N

    Novu

    Launch

    Novu is the open-source notification and agent communication infrastructure. Connect AI agents and products to customers across in-app, email, SMS, push, WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Telegram with one API. Start with npx novu conne

    Open source

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O

OpenVPN

OpenVPN is a virtual private network

Launch
8
P

Portmaster

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall

Launch
9
N

NodeBB

Forum software built for the modern web

Launch
10
H

Hey

A blockchain-powered social platform offering censorship-resistant content

Launch
11
O

OpenTofu

A community-driven, truly open-source fork of Terraform

Launch
12
N

NetAlertX

Network intruder and presence detector

Launch
13
T

The Lounge

Self-hosted web IRC client

Launch
14
N

Nakama Dotnet

.NET client for Nakama server written in C#

Launch
15
O

OpenSearch

Community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed search and analytics suite

Launch
16
M

Mosquitto

Eclipse Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker

Launch
17
M

Movim

Modern, federated social network based on XMPP

Launch
18
A

AIRI

Self hosted, you-owned Grok Companion, a container of souls of waifu

Launch
19
O

Orb Agent

Orb network observability agent, part of the NetBox ecosystem and developed…

Launch
20
S

Stats

macOS system monitor in your menu bar

Launch
21
X

Xray-core

Xray, Penetrates Everything

Launch
22
C

Campfire

Install your own group chat system with @mentions, DMs, and mobile support

Launch
23
C

Colanode

Local-first collaboration platform combining real-time chat, rich text pages

Launch
24
S

Scanopy

Discovers your network via SNMP, LLDP, and ARP

Launch
25
M

Maigret

Collect a dossier on a person by username from 6K websites

Launch
26
W

WeeChat

The extensible command-line chat client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Launch
27
F

Flow Launcher

Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins

Launch
28
A

Apprise

Apprise allows you to send a notification

Launch
29
B

Bitchat

bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes

Launch
30
N

Nicotine Plus

Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

Launch
31
V

V2ray Core

A platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions

Launch
32
R

Rabbitmq Server

Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins

Launch
33
B

Brook

A cross-platform programmable network tool

Launch
34
B

blocky

Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network

Launch
35
O

OpenMediaVault

Network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux

Launch
36
P

Paperless-ngx

Scan, index, and archive physical documents efficiently

Launch
37
T

Tinode

Instant messaging platform

Launch
38
F

Fedora Project

Project co-ordinating the development of Fedora Linux distribution

Launch
39
H

Hyphanet

Peer-to-peer Internet platform for censorship-resistant communication

Launch
40
M

Mixpost

Create, schedule, and manage social media content from your own server

Launch
41
O

Opengrep

Opengrep is a community-driven fork of SemgrepCE

Launch
42
Y

YunoHost

Install and maintain your own server with minimal technical knowledge

Launch
43
N

NSQ

A realtime distributed messaging platform

Launch
44
F

Forem

Open source platform for building communities

Launch
45
L

Lobsters

Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

Launch
46
P

phpBB

Flat-forum bulletin board software solution

Launch
47
F

Fluxer

A free and open source instant messaging and VoIP chat app built for friends

Launch
48
G

GoToSocial

ActivityPub federated social network server implementing the Mastodon client API

Launch
49
N

Nats Server

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system

Launch
50
O

OpenZiti

Fully-featured, zero trust, full mesh overlay network

Launch

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