WEwebmaven·Dec 23, 2020Submission
Browser extension that suggests alternatives to your current tab's URL
1 points · Open discussionnileshtrivedi
better
JavaScript2020–2020
nileshtrivedi / better
better
Browser extension that suggests better/ethical/local/cheaper alternative products & services than your current tab's URL.
2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
91GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Browser extension that suggests better/ethical/local/cheaper alternative products & services than your current tab's URL.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
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Also in these discussions
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM 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 week4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2020-08-19 13:34:36 UTC to 2020-12-23 22:25:06 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17 | 2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 31 | 2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 7 | 2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5 | 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2 | 2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 16 | 2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23 | 2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | 2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 7 | 2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 14 | 2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 21 | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesAnd a browser extension that suggests open-source alternatives based on the current page's URL: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/better
It also allows you to submit new recommendations via the extension itself which submits a pull request to its GitHub project.
What's interesting is that: the extension lets you subscribe to multiple sources for recommendations (much like adblocking filters). This means that curation of alternatives can be done by people YOU trust and could incorporate criteria other than license: Ethical, Low-priced, Locally produced, Sustainable etc.
In Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternativesTo improve the discovery of better alternatives to popular products and services, some of us are building a browser extension. It uses an in-page pop-up based on URL patterns to make community-curated suggestions: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/better
Another great source for discovering FOSS projects is https://opensource.builders
In Radicle-Link: Extending Git with Peer-to-Peer Network DiscoveryShow HN: Better – Browser extension that recommends alternative products/service
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