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linen.dev
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Linen-dev / linen.dev

linen.dev

Lightweight Google-searchable Slack alternative for Communities

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13Distinct people
26Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
2.8KGitHub stars
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What it is

Lightweight Google-searchable Slack alternative for Communities

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

The UI looks so clean and minimal! I love it. If devs are monitoring this sub, could you please provide the minimal self-host instructions? I was reading through…

villedepommes used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:01:02 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month26 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-10-18 15:12:43 UTC to 2024-02-14 02:29:32 UTC.

02462022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsOct 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 commentsJun 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC606
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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cheeseblubber·Feb 15, 2023
We're a team of 3 (with mostly 2 people coding) working on a Slack alternative for communities if you are interested to read through what the code base looks like https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev The client side can get a bit complicated but it's a good look as to what it looks like for a production app. I started this out by myself and the things I wanted to optimize for was my own productivity. I started out with React, Nextjs, Prisma, Tailwind and typescript all the way with a mono repo. Probably the most productive I have felt coding. As we've grown the code base has gotten more complicated and started to move things out in to it's own packages but still keeping things in a mono repo style. We've added Elixir for our websocket service for the realtime chat portion but if I were doing a crud app it'd be unnecessary. For tests we
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decided to focus on backend tests since they were much cheaper to write and maintain.
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