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Built Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento

Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don't want to host and maintain servers on your own. (And maybe even apply to YC, who knows :))

It started out with me reading a blog post [1] and thinking "I can write Disqus tonight". And that's how it began; I had a working prototype in 24 hours (at the expense of a final exam I had in two days haha). Posted it on HN, and it blew up. And then I sat down and made it into a serious project that's now actually used by other people. I've had senior devs from huge companies (like Atlassian) contribute to the project, and I think that's amazing.

http://donw.io/post/github-comments/




There's a product named Hosted Comments mentioned in another comment on this post with a similar goal.

https://www.hostedcomments.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16042162


And EffectiveDiscussions, https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments (I'm developing it), it's also no-ads and no-tracking (& open source).


Yep, I am aware. In fact there's a bunch of other offerings as well (someone else with a similar product once posted a summary comment; can't find it right now).

I just quickly registered and it appears the moderation/dashboard functionality is slightly limited in HostedComments. I only have the option to view all the comments. But with SaaS commento, you'll have a full fledged dashboard. Here's a sneek peak: https://i.imgur.com/j23BfKN.png


I really enjoyed reading your code, it's got a great style. Play on :D


Thank you! :)

This was only possible because of all the contributors [1]: some of the design paradigms were entirely their ideas, so credits to them as well.

[1] https://github.com/adtac/commento/graphs/contributors




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