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24 alternatives to Hyperbeam API

Multiplayer embeds of any website

The Hyperbeam API lets developers add real-time multiplayer capabilities to web applications through simple embeds. It works with any website, allowing multiple users to interact simultaneously in shared sessions. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hyperbeam API launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hyperbeam▲323

    A better way to watch together online

    2021 · hyperbeam.com · its alternatives →

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    Easily build real-time apps that enables user collaboration

    2022 · multiplayer.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We’re Philip, Amby, and Declan, and we made “multiplayer virtual computers” that you can embed anywhere, including 3D spaces. We decided to build this because we noticed that embedding third-party apps and websites can be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult. On the backend, we’re spinning up a VM and running a resource-optimized fork of Chromium which we then stream to participants via WebRTC. Since we’re hosting the servers running the applications,…

    2022 · threejs-example.hyperbeam.com · its alternatives →

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    Apidog▲570

    Development teams often struggle with using multiple tools like Postman and Swagger for API design, development, and testing. This fragmented approach leads to outdated API specs and chaotic collaboration. So we built Apidog: a single, unified API platform for team collaboration. It has a beautiful interface that makes it easy to create API spec, generate request data from API spec, validate responses, create mock data, orchestrate test scenarios, and publish API documentation. Apidog = Postman + Swagger + Mock + JMeter.

    2024 · apidog.com · 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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    Add web co-browsing to your app

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Host engaging and profitable virtual conferences and more

    2022 · beams.pro · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m a co‑founder of Embeddable AI. After struggling to add interactive AI experiences to Wix, Shopify, Webflow, WordPress sites, I built this tool to let marketers build chatbots, quizzes or assistants and embed them anywhere with a snippet. Built in React/TypeScript front end and Node.js logic engine. It loads fast and works across CMS platforms. I’d love feedback from builders and marketers on use cases, missing features, or integration ideas.

    2025 · embeddable.co · its alternatives →

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    Relay▲430

    An extension that adds Discord-style chat to every website

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hello API▲187

    Turn your boring API docs into an interactive playground

    2024 · helloapi.co · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website into an API

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website into a reliable API with 1 prompt

    Dec 2025 · skills.browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    Ultra fast, scalable and fully collaborative prototyping

    2016 · atomic.io · its alternatives →

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    Embeddable session replay infrastructure on rrweb, the open source standard. Unbranded SDK, ingest on your domain, replay through your API. Free tier included.

    2018 · rrweb.io · its alternatives →

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    Portal▲181

    Hey HN, I'm Zach, founder of Portal. Portal lets you share a live sandbox browser session as a link. Try it here: https://www.makeportals.com/try Instead of asking someone to sign up, install software, or book a demo for user research, onboarding, or sales, you send a link and they interact with the real product in a sandboxed browser environment, then you get session replays. Each viewer gets a fresh remote browser instance that starts from a defined state (URL, cookies, extensions, local files, etc). Sessions are isolated and expire automatically. The sessions have…

    Feb 2026 · makeportals.com · its alternatives →

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    Webdash▲268

    A customizable web dashboard for your web projects

    2018 · webdash.xyz · its alternatives →

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    WrapAPI▲291

    Build an API on top of any website

    2016 · wrapapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Author here. I just wanted a quick and easy way to easily submit strings to a REST API and get back the embedding vectors in JSON using Llama2 and other similar LLMs, so I put this together over the past couple days. It's very quick and easy to set up and totally self-contained and self-hosted. You can easily add new models to it by simply adding the HuggingFace URL to the GGML format model weights. Two models are included by default, and these are automatically downloaded the first time it's run. It lets you not only submit text strings and get back the embeddings, but also to compare two…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Node library for empowering real-time applications at scale - team-emt/razorframe

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Polybit▲111

    Backend APIs as a service

    2016 · polybit.com · its alternatives →

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    A web framework for building multi-user virtual reality experiences. - networked-aframe/networked-aframe

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Beam▲8

    A HTTP client for developers built with Rust

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cross-platform mobile screen sharing 🤯

    2019 · its alternatives →

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