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24 alternatives to APIQ

Simple and powerful CMS for developers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. APIQ launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Build professional dynamic websites without any code

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.

    Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →

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    Original GraphQL CMS, reimagined ✨

    2018 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphCMS▲264

    The GraphQL CMS

    2017 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphCMS▲310

    The original GraphQL CMS, evolved.

    2020 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Design and launch dynamic websites in one place with no code

    2020 · studio.design · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…

    Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →

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    Make▲96

    Turn your web content into images and PDFs with our API

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! My name is Nick and this is my fun side project. Please lay it on me. HN can think of Tips.io as a cracked out Tailwind Playground that has page management and amazing AI integration. There are a few core ideas: 1) The HTML is the CMS There are no fields or restrictions. Just hover, click, and start tweaking any HTML. Also, certain elements you click will have special easy edit abilities: - auto creates an uploader, stock photo picker (or HTML) - auto creates an uploader, stock video picker (or HTML) - auto creates a big icon picker (or HTML) - auto creates a WYSIWYG Editor (or HTML)…

    2024 · tips.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn any static web page into a dynamic exchange

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Strapi▲340

    Design APIs fast, manage content easily

    2021 · strapi.io · its alternatives →

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    The best CMS is the one you already use

    2024 · webstudio.is · its alternatives →

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    Last week's post from Thariq "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" went viral in X. He made a good point about HTML being the more expressive and human friendly alternative to markdown files. I completely buy in where he's coming from, I've been asking Claude Code to create me HTML files to better understand what we're planning and building together. What Thariq didn't address was the part of sharing and collaborating on these HTML artifacts (he proposed uploading to S3). While I've been heavy user of HTML artifacts to share quarterly plans, implementation specs, technical guides and…

    May 2026 · display.dev · its alternatives →

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    Create beautiful powerful documentation, hassle-free.

    2018 · developerhub.io · its alternatives →

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    JustCMS▲255

    AI-powered, affordable, headless cms

    2025 · slotvipjpterus.co · its alternatives →

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    Wisp CMS▲410

    Delightful way to create + manage blogs on existing websites

    2024 · wisp.blog · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Jimmy, co-founder of Dropbase (https://www.dropbase.io). We are an internal tools builder for Python developers. All you have to do is import any Python scripts/libraries, declare UI components, and layer app permissions so you can share them with others. We’re a middle ground between Airplane and Retool—simpler UI creation than Airplane, more code-centered than Retool. UI building is declarative and you can bind Python scripts/functions to UI components. You can write Python scripts/functions using our App Studio with support from a Python Language…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source, dev-friendly and powered by GraphQL and React

    2019 · webiny.com · its alternatives →

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    Sanity is the back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.

    2017 · sanity.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple Content Platform to manage any structured content

    2014 · getcockpit.com · its alternatives →

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    Create the best commerce experiences with API level control

    2016 · its alternatives →

  22. 22BB

    I built a web-based app for building websites. The main unique features are: 1. The ability to copy and paste any HTML and CSS into the editor with no limits. I was never able to find another app that could do this without some form of limitation. 2. CSS filtering, which means you can click on an element to view and edit the CSS selectors and rules that apply to that element alone. In many cases I've found CSS naming conventions like BEM to become irritating at certain scales, so this is an alternative solution. This part of the app needs some more development work but the concept is there.…

    2024 · demo.gocodestudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate images and PDFs with simple API

    2021 · apitemplate.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Tony, founder of Cosmic (a headless CMS). We just open-sourced a CLI that covers the full lifecycle of a content-driven app from creating the content model to deploying to production to updating the codebase all without leaving the terminal. Here's what the full workflow looks like: # Create a project with an AI-generated content model cosmic projects create # → "A recipe blog with recipes, categories, and authors" # Generate content cosmic content -p "Create 5 recipes with images across different categories" # Build a full-stack app wired to your content cosmic build -p "A modern…

    Feb 2026 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →

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