Scoold works great as a Q&A, forum, knowledge base or customer support platform. There's a growing frustration among teams using SO in the enterprise, who are now looking for self-hosted alternatives. Surprisingly, there are very few good alternatives to SO as most of the projects unmaintained.
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Hey Product Hunt!
Scoold has been around since 2017 and is slowly gaining popularity as the self-hosted alternative to Stack Overflow for Teams.
The project is actively developed and maintained by me, as a solo indie developer. Scoold is open source but there's also a paid Pro version with premium features.
Scoold Features:
š¹ Easy-to-use Website Builder
š¹ Full featured Q&A platform
š¹ Database-agnostic, optimized for cloud deployment
š¹ Full-text search
š¹ Distributed object cache
š¹ Location-based search and "near me" filtering of posts
š¹ I18n with RTL language support
š¹ Reputation and voting system with badges
š¹ Spaces (Teams) - groups of isolated questions and users
š¹ Webhooks with signature signing
š¹ Zapier integration
š¹ Minimal frontend JS code based on jQuery
š¹ Modern, responsive layout powered by Materialize CSS
š¹ Suggestions for similar questions and hints for duplicate posts
š¹ Email notifications for post replies and comments
š¹ Backup and Restore
š¹ RESTful API defined with OpenAPI 3.0
š¹ Spring Boot project (single JAR)
š¹ LDAP authentication support
š¹ Social login (Facebook, Google, GitHub, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Slack, Amazon, Twitter) with Gravatar support
š¹ Syntax highlighting for code in posts, GFM markdown support with tables, task lists and strikethrough
š¹ Import data from Stack Overflow for Teams
š¹ Emoji support - cheat sheet
š¹ SEO friendly
š¹ Cookie consent (for GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
Scoold Pro features:
š¹ Slack integration
š¹ Mattermost integration
š¹ SAML authentication support
š¹ Custom authentication support
š¹ Mentions with notifications
š¹ File uploads (local, S3 or Imgur)
š¹ Account suspensions (permabans)
š¹ Anonymous posts
š¹ Sticky / Favorite posts
š¹ Advanced syntax highlighting
š¹ Email digest of recent questions
š¹ Wiki-style answers
...and more!
Oh, by the way, I've just launched the hosting platform Scoold Cloud where you can deploy a Scoold Pro server in minutes:
š https://cloud.scoold.com
Some Other Links:
Demo: https://live.scoold.com
Get notified on a new release by following: https://twitter.com/getscoold
Thanks,
Alex