Hosting & SaaS

29 tools recommended in Hacker News comment threads, most-mentioned first.

Mastodon
A decentralized, open-source social network built on the ActivityPub protocol.
5 threads
Bluesky
A social network built on the AT Protocol.
2 threads
Hetzner
German hosting and cloud infrastructure provider.
2 threads
Amazon Luna
Amazon's cloud game streaming service.
1 thread
Booking.com
An online travel agency for booking hotels and other accommodation.
1 thread
Boomi ↗
An integration and automation platform with low-code and AI agent tooling.
1 thread
Codeberg ↗
A non-profit hosted Git forge for free and open source projects.
1 thread
Diaspora
Decentralized social network software run on independently hosted pods.
1 thread
Fastmail
A paid email hosting provider.
1 thread
Fly.io
A platform for running app containers close to users.
1 thread
GeForce Now
Nvidia's cloud gaming service for streaming PC games you own on your own accounts.
1 thread
Hoopla
A library-based digital media borrowing service for video, music and books.
1 thread
Kanopy
A video streaming service provided free through public libraries.
1 thread
Movies Anywhere
A service that consolidates digital movie purchases from multiple stores into one library.
1 thread
Neocities ↗
A free static website hosting service with subdomains.
1 thread
OpenCloud
A self-hosted file sync and collaboration platform.
1 thread
Porkbun
A domain registrar that also offers hosting.
1 thread
Purelymail ↗
A low-cost email hosting service supporting custom domains.
1 thread
SDF Public Access UNIX System
A long-running public access UNIX system offering shells and Gopher hosting.
1 thread
SiteGround
A managed web hosting provider focused on WordPress and PHP sites.
1 thread
SourceHut ↗
A minimalist hosted software forge with mailing-list-based workflows.
1 thread
Squarespace
A hosted website builder service.
1 thread
Topicbox
A hosted group email and mailing list service from the team behind Fastmail.
1 thread
Workato
An enterprise automation and integration platform.
1 thread
archive.today
A web page archiving service that stores snapshots of pages.
1 thread
tuhat ↗
A blogging platform with page-size settings, hidden page breaks, EPUB export and zine booklet printing.
1 thread
Cloudflare Durable Objects
Cloudflare's stateful serverless objects with built-in SQLite storage.
0 threads
Crunchyroll
A streaming service specialising in anime.
0 threads
Floatplane ↗
A subscription video platform built by Linus Media Group.
0 threads