FreeBASIC Reviews

1. Jose Galeno

   over 5 years ago
   Can Not to Comapre FREEBASIC is a COMPILER NOT AN IDE

   HAS IDE AS FBEdit, FBNP,WINFBE, VisualFB, etc

   🏁 Competitors: Visual Basic

   👍 Pros:    Compiler|32|64|Windows linux mac|Mingw32 and mingw64|Free to use|Binding to c, c++

F5Bot Reviews

1. demoly

   · Working at Demoly.io · almost 2 years ago
   Highly recommend for anyone to monitor keywords

   I use it every day. F5Bot is amazing at notifying for specific keywords. The only downside is that it doesn't have context around your keywords, so you will get more emails with keywords than expected. It really depends on your keywords and how you monitor them. Overall it's a high quality monitoring service.

   👍 Pros:    Free to use|High quality|Reliable
2. dksinden

   · Commercial Director at SpeechKit · almost 6 years ago
   Pretty useful little tool for catching reddit mentions :)

   Easy to setup and forget, would definitely recommend

3. Pēteris Caune

   · Working at healthchecks.io · about 6 years ago

   F5Bot is awesome. Compared to similar services, it delivers notifications in nearly real-time. I get notified about online discussions mentioning my product as they happen, not a day later.

   🏁 Competitors: Warble

FreeBASIC mentions (5)

• Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux

  Outside of Microsoft created QB64: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64 - https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-took Outside of Microsoft created Visual Basic IDE: - http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html - https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas Outside of Microsoft created FreeBasic: - https://freebasic.net. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript

  If you have linux or windows, you can try freebasic. I believe it has a qbasic compatibility mode. Source: over 4 years ago

• Ask HN: What are your opinions on modern BASIC dialects?

  Have you looked at https://freebasic.net/ and https://www.qb64.org/portal/ ? It's been ages since I actually wrote code in BASIC, but there do appear to be nice open-source options in the modern world. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• How to compile a BASIC code in linux ?

  I used https://freebasic.net/ ages ago. Works fine. Source: about 5 years ago

• Blank Projects - Then And Now

  And here you can live though that pain again: https://freebasic.net/. Source: over 5 years ago

F5Bot mentions (42)

• Fix Your Tools

  I'm keeping an eye on things through F5 bot (https://f5bot.com/). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• 10 Best Google Alerts Alternatives in 2026 (Free and Paid)

  F5Bot does one thing well: it monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters for your keywords, then emails you within minutes. This is a blind spot for both Google Alerts and most social listening tools. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025)

  Hmm any plans on integrating it with Discord instead of Slack? Also, aware of https://f5bot.com/? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• SEO tools I used to grow my sites to 20k+ visitors/month

  The pitch for f5bot is simple - as they say, it is a service that will help you to "Get an email when you're mentioned online!". - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• How to Successfully Promote and Market an API

  Sign up for F5Bot and set up keyword monitoring for your Problem space across Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters. For example, if you're building a payments API, setup monitoring on "Payments API", "Stripe", "payments via API", "API for Payments", and anything else your buyer might be searching for. Don't be overly pushy when replying to these threads. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago