Community apps
Forums, Q&A, community platforms and events.
Guides
8.1/10Wikipedia
The free, ad-free encyclopedia written and maintained by volunteers
7.6/10Luma
Clean event pages with RSVPs and ticketing; free plan has unlimited guests
7.5/10Eventbrite
Widely used global platform for creating events, selling tickets and managing attendees
7.3/10Partiful
Free party invite pages with link-based RSVPs; guests need no app
7.3/10Circle
Paid community platform bundling courses, events, payments and branded apps
7.2/10Product Hunt
A community for launching and upvoting new tech products daily
7.2/10OpenStreetMap
The community-built, openly licensed map of the world
7.0/10Hacker News
Y Combinator's minimalist forum for tech and startup news
7.0/10Patreon
Membership platform where creators earn directly from their supporters
7.0/10Discord
Server-based voice, video and text chat that grew out of gaming communities
6.9/10Fever
Discovery and ticketing app for local events and experiences
6.9/10Internet Archive
Nonprofit digital library: Wayback Machine, books, audio, video, software
6.8/10Substack
Newsletter and paid-community platform for independent writers
6.8/10A vast forum of 100,000+ topic communities, from news to niche hobbies
6.7/10Skool
Community, courses and gamification in one flat-priced platform
6.7/10Tinh tế
Long-running Vietnamese tech forum and social network, free to use
6.7/10Zhihu
China's large Q&A platform, built for Chinese-language readers
6.6/10wikiHow
A step-by-step how-to library, now written mostly by professional writers
6.5/10Bumble For Friends
Bumble's friend-finding app, now with groups and events, free to use
6.5/10Change.org
Large online petition platform that says it is nonprofit-owned
6.5/10Fandom
The fan wiki platform for games, TV and film, paid for by ads
6.5/10Stack Overflow
The long-running programming Q&A site, now under pressure from AI tools
6.4/10Shapes
A group chat where friends and AI agents talk, plan and work together
6.4/10Meetup
Platform for finding and running interest-based groups and events
6.4/10GoFundMe
Crowdfunding platform with no platform fee, only transaction fees
6.4/10Ticketbox
Vietnamese event-ticketing platform for concerts, theatre, workshops and e-tickets
6.4/10Voz
Long-running Vietnamese tech and general forum; free, but phone verification is required
6.3/10Fizz
Anonymous, school-verified social app now adding location-based communities
6.3/10Quora
A large Q&A platform where answer quality depends on who writes it
6.1/10Timeleft
Weekly dinners, drinks, coffees and walks with matched strangers
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