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24 alternatives to I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible
Wall of Text is a web-based art project created as a learning exercise in WebSocket technology. It displays user-generated text in an ever-changing visual composition on a shared canvas. The site is designed for anyone… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Wall of Text▲902014 · walloftext.co · its alternatives →
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Create stunning text-behind-image designs easily
2024 · textbehindimage.rexanwong.xyz · its alternatives →
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Here▲304Hang out and collaborate over video on a real-time canvas
2020 · here.fm · its alternatives →
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Art Text▲171Graphic design software for making artistic text effects.
2017 · text.design · its alternatives →
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Laser Graffitifree▲253Point a projector and a webcam at a wall, draw with a laser pointer, and the projector paints your strokes. Open source, runs in the browser.
Aug 2026 · laser.consti.de · its alternatives →
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// THE WALL //▲269A global feed where every post costs more than the last
2025 · thewall-ebac7.web.app · its alternatives →
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Visually build multichannel messaging bots and launch them anywhere in the world.
2013 · textit.in · its alternatives →
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Simple virtual whiteboarding. Contribute to jncraton/box-line-text development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! For the last 8 months we've been working on leaflet.pub, a web app for making delightful documents. We're trying to strike a balance between Notion and Google Docs — very fast, ultralight and easy to share, but also supporting rich blocks and multiple pages. Weirdly, none of the many notetaking/document apps that we could find hit this combination, so we made Leaflet. With it you can: - Instantly create a doc, without an account - Share read and edit links - Sign-in with email to sync your docs to different devices - Add rich blocks, like canvases, subpages, rsvps, and polls It's…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Liquid Text 2.0▲157A better way to understand text - across multiple documents
2016 · liquidtext.net · its alternatives →
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CollageMo▲96Easily create beautiful real life wall collages
2014 · collagemo.com · its alternatives →
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