Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A pure C websocket server to find cycles in the English dictionary launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   SocketCluster▲93

   A scalable realtime engine for Node.js

   2015 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   WebsocketD▲82

   WebSockets are easy now

   2015 · websocketd.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   JuliusJS▲94

   A speech recognition library for the web

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   FlowTime▲72

   A Pomodoro-driven timer for Chrome

   2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   NotebookJS▲109

   Scientific computation for JavaScript

   2016 · datazar.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   A minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go▲99

   Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Contribute to coder/websocket development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   WireEdit▲68

   A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

   2014 · omnipacket.com · its alternatives →

8. 8LI
   Lexical.io – A web app for reading English text▲9

   2016 · lexical.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   KORE.io▲88

   A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C

   2015 · kore.io · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Ring▲83

    A free software for distributed and secured communication

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Code Podcast 3: Concurrency – Event Loop & Coroutines▲54

    Concurrency in UIKits, browsers and web servers

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

12. 12SA
    Starlette – An asyncio Web framework for Python▲8

    2018 · starlette.io · its alternatives →

13. 13AS
    A simple embedded websocket server in C++▲5

    Drawing attention to an open source project of mine

    2015 · xania.org · its alternatives →

14. 14RA
    Ranvier, a Node.js based telnet MUD codebase▲5

    2017 · ranviermud.com · its alternatives →

15. 15SW
    Serverless WebSocket chat▲8

    2016 · blog.fanout.io · its alternatives →

16. 16SP
    Sound playground implemented in C++ Crow WebSocket▲5

    2016 · sound.ipknlab.com · its alternatives →

17. 17FA
    Flow, a WebRTC/Web Audio HTML5 experiment.▲6

    2012 · trypwire.flow.jit.su · its alternatives →

18. 18ML
    My Leeds Hack Day project, a language detection API▲9

    2010 · polyglossy.com · its alternatives →

19. 19LP
    Lightbus – Python/Redis Message Bus for Eventing and RPCs▲6

    2019 · lightbus.org · its alternatives →

20. 20NJ
    Noise – JSON search engine library▲6

    2017 · noisesearch.org · its alternatives →

21. 21GA
    Golang and raspberry-pi and websocket = awesome▲12

    2015 · labs.yulrizka.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Sonar▲14

    A linting tool for the web

    2017 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Jsong: faster than light streaming JSON parser and writer in C▲9

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Socket.js, a tiny WebSockets library for Node.js▲11

    A realtime communication framework for Node.js. Contribute to stepchowfun/socket.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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