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24 alternatives to 80s, a minimalistic HTTP server with hot-code reloads

280 kB minimalistic HTTP server with async I/O and hot-code reloading - diznq/80s

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. 80s, a minimalistic HTTP server with hot-code reloads launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C▲223

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   2021 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks▲472

   Articles in this series Part I. Iterative ServersPart II. Forking ServersPart III. Pre-forking ServersPart IV. Threaded ServersPart V. Pre-threaded ServersPart VI: poll-based serverPart VII: epoll-…

   2019 · unixism.net · its alternatives →

3. 3SH
   Scheme HTTP server with transparent async – 222k req/s▲17

   Mar 2026 · hyper.dev · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework▲80

   Asynchronous C networking library with HTTP server, WebSockets, reverse proxy, HTTP/2 gRPC client, TLS and event loop. - Softmotions/iwnet

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready▲261

   ⚠️ Moved to Code.NOLOG: https://code.nolog.cz/thinking.tools/s3mini - Tiny S3 client. Edge computing ready. No-dep. In Typescript. - good-lly/s3mini

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storagefree▲159

   PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the facade. S3Stream is the stream storage primitive, used in AutoMQ, shipped as a Rust library. Coordination is a command log in Postgres.

   Aug 2026 · picomq.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   HTTP server written in x64 assembly (x86-64)▲12

   A minimalist HTTP server for Linux, written in x86_64 assembly - jcalvinowens/asmhttpd

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   AsmHTTPd – The tiniest webserver ever written (Linux, x86_64 assembly)▲8

   A minimalist HTTP server for Linux, written in x86_64 assembly - jcalvinowens/asmhttpd

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework▲173

   2018 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

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    unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi▲87

    Hey HN, I wanted to get more familiar with C programming, *nix socket programming and C compilation, so I wrote this "web" ""server"". It's running on a tiny SBC in my office, and there's as little as possible between you and it. Happy for you to try and break it, hopefully with something more interesting than a DoS though :) Please let me know if you find any issues.

    2025 · unsafehttp.benren.au · its alternatives →

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    Hellepoll is a blazingly-fast async HTTP server written in C++▲35

    This is based on an approach I made for a very high performance message and video multiplexing server. The project died, but I'm glad I get to share the a basic version with some http test code now. I admit this is the second time I've tried to show this off here today; I posted earlier but it got lost when no-one was watching :(

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    KORE.io▲88

    A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C

    2015 · kore.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Request Server▲75

    The most minimalist cloud hosting service.

    2018 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Open-source non-blocking NIO Java HTTP Server▲59

    A full featured, stand-alone, high-performance HTTP server and client written entirely in plain Java - FusionAuth/java-http

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers▲21

    A tiny async loader / dependency manager for modern browsers (961 bytes) - amorey/loadjs

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16DO
    Demo of Wiki and Forum coded in C under 80k▲47

    2015 · home.ronsor.gq · its alternatives →

17. 17
    A Go service that exposes a FIFO message queue in RAM▲17

    Microsecond message queues over HTTP and raw TCP — one static binary, zero dependencies, nothing to operate. - raiyanyahya/zapq

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Asynq – Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue for Go▲8

    Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go - hibiken/asynq

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Rethinknig Serverless – Services, Observers, and Actors Now Available▲5

    Hey HN - Today we launched a new globally available Serverless platform that thinks about simplicity and DX first and foremost. Let us know what you think - try it now for free. Traditional serverless functions are islands. Each function handles a request, does its work, and forgets everything. Need one function to talk to another? You’ll be making HTTP calls over the public internet, managing authentication between your own services, and dealing with unnecessary network latency for simple internal operations. This architectural limitation has held back serverless adoption for complex…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers▲25

    A tiny async loader / dependency manager for modern browsers (961 bytes) - amorey/loadjs

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21HB
    HTTP Blog Server – 100 Lines of C in a Closet▲6

    2020 · blog.notryan.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Nuster – A HTTP/2 web cache accelerator▲8

    A high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy - jiangwenyuan/nuster

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Scaleway: C2 cloud servers▲8

    x86-64 BareMetal server 5 times cheaper than DO and AWS

    2016 · scaleway.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Minimalistic web server & framework implemented in C▲10

    Fast web server & micro framework implemented in C. Just for fun. - iafonov/cosmonaut

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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