Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Evolving your RESTful APIs, a step-by-step approach
Designing an intuitive, user-friendly RESTful API is a tough job. It might already be a massive task if it’s your first attempt. Planning for the lifecycle management of your API is likely to be an afterthought. But it’s possible anyway: in this post, I’d like to propose a no-nonsense approach to ev
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Evolving your RESTful APIs, a step-by-step approach launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Anything API▲656Hey 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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Generate custom data & API to build apps in less than 30s
2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →
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Lorem Ipsum backends for your next no-code app, by @Draftbit
2020 · example-data.draftbit.com · its alternatives →
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Developerhub.io▲149Create beautiful powerful documentation, hassle-free.
2018 · developerhub.io · its alternatives →
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Simple online database service in the cloud with NoSQL, REST API, low code javascript hooks, MongoDB support and more. Perfect for API automation, custom development, enterprise, backoffice, serverless backends, database driven websites. It provides easy collaboration and data management with secure
2016 · restdb.io · 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 serves a fully RESTful API from any SQL database - rest-go/rest
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API
2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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Backendless▲99Build scalable apps at lightning speed, coding optional
2023 · backendless.com · its alternatives →
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A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team
2020 · notion.so · its alternatives →
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Neutrino API provides a collection of general-purpose APIs that solve common but difficult problems encountered during software development
2015 · neutrinoapi.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · restful.io · its alternatives →
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Konfig▲87Generate SDKs, docs, demos & tutorials for your REST API
2023 · konfigthis.com · its alternatives →
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Create a serverless cloud backend with a database and API functions in few minutes! Zero maintenance required, instant provisioning, High availability & Scalability, Woldwide CDN with 113 POPs. 24/7 Professional support.
2017 · cloudbackend.appdrag.com · its alternatives →
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INTRO: Hi HN community, it is been 2 years since I developed Apisentris (https://apisentris.com) that initially aimed to make my big brother easier to consuming data from his database (MySQL, back then). He is non programmer and wanted me to create some programming scripts to do his jobs. I found out "Database to API" libraries already out there but we have to do some programming works and server configuration to make them work. So that's the idea, what if there is a platform that would instantly generates API from database(s) without (reduce) all of scary configs stuff and backend…
2019 · its alternatives →
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An OpenAPI alternative to describe REST APIs for type-safe code generation.
2023 · typeapi.org · its alternatives →
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