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Qbix / Platform

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Free, open-source community platform, decentralized alternative to Big Tech. For apps that empower people and unite communities.

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23GitHub stars
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What it is

Free, open-source community platform, decentralized alternative to Big Tech. For apps that empower people and unite communities.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Thanks, that's a great list! Might be worth mentioning our engine there too, for people who want a graph database atop SQLite and other battle-tested relational databases like…

EGreg used a recommendation phrase. 3 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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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, 12:03:30 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 year108 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-10-15 03:50:02 UTC to 2026-09-28 13:30:18 UTC.

0510152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 3 submissions, 12 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 3 submissions, 9 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 1 submissions, 16 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 1 submissions, 15 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1239
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17116
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16115
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010

What Hacker News says

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EGreg·Nov 21, 2019
I can try to distill some of my own musings. I don’t know if they’re obvious or not. 1. Before launching a marketplace, grow a community interacting around content you get from free sources (or via a subscription) such as youtube, the web, restaurants, books etc. 2. Then link to existing marketplaces of sellers via an API (eg Amazon affiliates, OpenTable, Ticketmaster etc.) 3. Once you have enough people, build a more vendor-friendly sales process, reach out to vendors and see if they would list on you directly. Sometimes their contracts don’t allow them (eg with ticketmaster). Now if you are intent on building a community from scratch, you will still need: 1a. A policy of subscribing to interests during onboarding (eg like with meetup.com) and telling people that they’ll get notifications as things are posted. 1b. Initially showing infin
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ite scroll of ALL matching group activities around the user, with filters to filter it down by categories that have at least 1 result, so it never looks like a ghost town in most categories. 1c. Have subcommunities based on eg zipcode or city and let people grow them. For an example see https://yang2020.app/communities 1d. Have a system of credits users can earn for referring new users to the app. 1e. Leaderboard system per zipcode / week, who has the most credits. The leaders get some badges (digital goods) or even some real world goods. Disclaimer: at https://qbix.com we build software for exactly this. Your job is to come up with the community idea, get the content license, get the various subcommunities, and we do the rest. We built https://yang2020.app for example, for Yang Gangs to unite. It lets you organize a local event/rally, rides to and from the event, checkins, and also uses some of the later Web features that finally work on all mobile browsers, like PaymentRequest (to pay for tickets) and WebRTC (to videochat or even screenshare). If you’re a developer it’s open source so you can grab it at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform and just build whatever on it.
In How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace
EGreg·Nov 11, 2019
What would it look like? I have been building it, writing about it and giving it away: https://qbix.com/blog https://github.com/Qbix/Platform https://qbix.com/token Every time I post this on HN, it gets heavily downvoted. But I don’t ever hear why. I can think of no better way than to show, link to the code, give it away. I spent over half a million dollars of my company’s revenues on this. Take that for what it’s worth. I intend to make this work. If this inspires you, feel free to email me (qbix.com/about)
In The Rising Threat of Digital Nationalism

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