Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to CRUD Rest APIs
Speed up your development with instant & stateful CRUD APIs
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CRUD Rest APIs launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Generate custom data & API to build apps in less than 30s
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma. Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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InstantDB▲329Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →
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Rest Faker▲13Generate complete REST APIs with CRUD in matter of seconds
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! I just wrapped up an all-day documentation spree for Instant API, a JavaScript framework for easily building web APIs that implements type safety at the HTTP interface. It uses a function-as-a-service approach combined with a slightly modified JSDoc spec to automatically enforce parameter and schema validation before HTTP requests make it through to your code. You just write comments above your endpoint functions and voila, enforced type safety contracts between your API endpoints and your developers. OpenAPI specifications are generated automatically as a byproduct of simply…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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REST API Generator With JWT Authentication & Postman JSON
2022 · its alternatives →
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Instantly generate openapi (OAS) 3.0.0 REST + GraphQL APIs
2019 · its alternatives →
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Generate production-ready Spring Boot CRUD in seconds
Dec 2025 · plugins.jetbrains.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · mockoon.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · emergentone.com · its alternatives →
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Instant CRUD APIs, docs, playground, logs without backend
Mar 2026 · crudly.org · its alternatives →
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In my last project, I was struggling to create and monitor cron jobs. So, instead of creating hundreds of standalone scrips and executing them with cron, I decided to turn those scripts into multiple endpoints. Next, I created a single service that I could schedule HTTP requests to those endpoints and monitor its execution. No more scripts, now everything is endpoints that I can run manually at any time I turned this scheduler service into a Micro-SaaS so you don't have to build it yourself: beew.io I know you can Schedule HTTP requests with Zapier but come on... I will not pay 50 bucks for…
2021 · its alternatives →
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