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How about creating your own? :)

Disclaimer - I run this site - shameless plug, I know.

I haven't checked all around the site but on http://www.postatic.com/admin/hello/tour this stood out:

`User your own domain name` should be `Use your own domain name`

just another kindly heads up .. you have a <div> in the <head> section ;)

Anyways great product! I wonder if there's a demo or something to check how this works.

Ahh. I should fix those.

You can check out our own Q&A site (eating our own dog-food). We use Postatic to run our own community.

Does it also have a algorithmic ranking model and is the algorithm customizable? Any chance of a self-hosted alternative?

This looks awesome, I would love to talk more, I have been looking for something like this

> Any chance of a self-hosted alternative?

You could use code which powers HN itself [0]. Or you could use Telesco.pe [1].

We don't have a self-hosted model yet. But we'll probably look into it in the future. :)

We do have a simple ranking algorithm. Hmm, how could we allow our users customize this... that's a good question.

Looks cool. May I ask you what stack did you use to build it?

The webpage is using:

  Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
  PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11

.. which has a Symfony router in the back (from 404s)

but that the actual product could be using another stack

PHP (Laravel) + Javascript, Postgres.

I didn't see anything about pricing on your website?

That's because it's free. For now. :) It'll come one day I'm sure.

This is cool.