Top 3 TypeScript Social Networks and Forum Projects

Misskey

15 9,468 9.9 TypeScript

🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
Coral

10 1,864 9.9 TypeScript

A better commenting experience from Vox Media (by coralproject)

Project mention: What Is a Vector Database | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-05

The Coral Project [0] (commenting platform used on Washington Post, New York Times, The Verge) uses an Apache 2.0 license [1]. Which doesn't seem to have prevented it from raking in big SaaS customers.
A lot of people worry about copy-cat services, but it's kind of rare that someone will be able to compete with you as the original in hosting your own service as well as you can. Especially when you consider support and maintenance requirements of a new product you aren't personally developing.
I could see copy-cat services being more of an issue in the late stage of a product though? When everyone knows lots about how to stand it up and use it?
[0] https://coralproject.net/

SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
Talkyard

9 1,669 9.0 TypeScript

A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).