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24 alternatives to I have a silly pet project, can I get some input?
Last night I had a stupid idea, and wanted to check if it is technically possible. Well, it is! In a nutshell: Emoji support for your website's URLs. yourwebsite.com/contact - booring yourwebsite.com/:phoneemoji: - cool! So I wrote a nodejs middleware that offers emoji support for your API, with 2 lines of code. (well if you count the installation 3 lines) Here's the project: https://www.npmjs.com/package/slashemoji I currently have support for the /contact and /about routes. Can you give me some ideas of what other URLs to cover, and what emojis to…
This Node.js middleware enables websites to use emoji characters in URL routes instead of traditional text paths, turning yourwebsite.com/contact into yourwebsite.com/☎️. Designed for developers looking to experiment… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I have a silly pet project, can I get some input? launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Magic Link▲240A premium emoji URL shortener in your pocket
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, all! Author here. What started as a small tool I built for a job interview, became "The Most Over-engineered Deal With It Emoji Generator": - All operations done fully client-side - no backend, no private data leaves your browser. - Uses machine learning models (MediaPipe Face Detector task) to automatically scale and position glasses on the detected faces. - Extensive customization options for glasses: - Placement of glasses anywhere on the input image (including slightly going outside it). - Change the size of glasses. - No limit on the number of glasses. - Flip the glasses vertically…
2024 · emoji.build · its alternatives →
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Twemoji 12.0▲329Twitter’s open source emoji featuring 3,071 emojis for free
2019 · twemoji.twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Get your own emoji domain! 😁
2017 · xn--f28h.to · its alternatives →
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Twemoji▲306Twitter’s open source emoji featuring 2,841 emojis for free
2018 · twemoji.twitter.com · its alternatives →
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EmojiAI.com▲267Suggest emojis for your text, tweet, or marketing copy
2022 · emojiai.com · its alternatives →
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DraftJS Plugins▲260Slack-like emojis, FB-like mentions & stickers for web apps
2016 · draft-js-plugins.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · emojied.net · its alternatives →
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MakeEmoji▲111Create animated custom emojis for Slack and Discord✨
2019 · makeemoji.com · its alternatives →
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