Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Micro is a public API platform that launched in 2021, offering developers access to ready-made APIs for common functionality. The platform is currently free during its beta phase. It's designed for developers who need… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Micro – A public API platform (now free during beta) launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Micro – A platform for cloud native development in Go▲44

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Micro▲93

   APIs for everyday use

   2021 · m3o.com · its alternatives →

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   Tiny API▲538

   Enabling developers to monetise their code

   2023 · tinyapi.co · its alternatives →

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   Micro – Platform APIs built for developers▲7

   Hey all, Just reposting after about a year since the last time I shared. Micro is a platform for API development. It combines a lot of the core primitives you'd expect from a cloud platform as a single logical server. The closest equivalent is Dapr.io. It bakes in the concept of environments, source to running builds and a framework for Go development. It's useful where you want to write backend services in Go and expose them through a single API (also included in Micro). We once wrote about "Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend"…

   2023 · micro.dev · its alternatives →

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   Micro – A Microservice Toolkit▲25

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6MA
   Micro – a microservice toolkit▲101

   Something basic to showcase. Write posts with AI basically. The idea is that you just enter a title and description and then hit "Write with AI" and it'll co-author the post with you and then you post it. Maybe it exists elsewhere but I don't really use X or other platforms anymore.

   2016 · blog.micro.mu · its alternatives →

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   MicroAcquire▲1,552

   A free & anonymous startup acquisition marketplace

   2020 · microacquire.com · its alternatives →

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   Public APIs 3.0▲538

   A collection of public APIs for your next project

   2021 · public-apis.io · its alternatives →

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   Go Micro – A distributed systems development framework▲115

   I can't tell if HN is the right kind of place for this stuff anymore since people are so advanced in their use but I thought it was interesting to leverage my existing Go microservices framework and turn it into the core of what would provide tools for an agent cli or whatever beyond that. Extensibility is key. Thought I'd share and get a conversation going.

   2020 · go-micro.dev · its alternatives →

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    Microlaunch▲1,115

    Launch and get feedback on both the idea and product

    2024 · microlaunch.net · its alternatives →

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    ReadMe Micro▲124

    Document your internal APIs and microservices with ease

    2023 · micro.readme.com · its alternatives →

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    Serverless meets Microservices▲191

    2016 · blog.leveros.com · its alternatives →

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    M3O – Universal Public API Interface▲110

    Hey all, I'm Asim, the founder of M3O, a curated catalog of APIs that provides simple abstractions for the most common API use cases. The idea is to create a single place to explore, discover and consume public APIs as higher level building blocks. Most of the time I don’t use all the features of an API and I assume most devs don't either, so picking and choosing the common patterns, abstracting it away and surfacing a new building block is useful. For example, Twilio has a lot of APIs but I only care about SMS. Even then I just want a quick way to send it. So stripping it all away results…

    2022 · m3o.com · its alternatives →

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    Micro SaaS HQ▲672

    Profitable Micro SaaS ideas, supportive community

    2022 · microsaashq.com · its alternatives →

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    Micro Invest▲665

    Micro investment for solo founders by solo investors

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Micron.JS▲214

    A [μ] microInteraction library built with CSS and JavaScript

    2018 · webkul.github.io · its alternatives →

17. 17MA
    Mu – A Micro App Platform▲73

    Hey all Sharing a new piece of work I've been doing with a friend. Mu is a new micro web app platform which enables building and sharing apps instantly with storage, auth and payments built in. Apps are single file, built in the browser and rendered as an iframe. They're "micro" because they're quite literally tiny single purpose utilities like a hackernews reader or old school guest book. It's mostly at this point something that scratches a personal itch. Making app development super simple and lightweight. Sort of like living GitHub gists. And trying to build a simpler, cleaner place to…

    2023 · mu.app · its alternatives →

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    Microlink 2.0▲334

    Extract structured data from any website

    2018 · microlink.io · its alternatives →

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    is.js▲132

    Micro check library for programmers

    2015 · is.js.org · its alternatives →

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    Go-micro – a microservices client/server library▲27

    A Go agent harness and service framework. Contribute to micro/go-micro development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Micro-SaaS▲373

    All you need to build bootstrap SaaS at one place

    2021 · microsaas.one · its alternatives →

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    MicroStartups.co▲306

    Explore profitable micro-startups around the globe

    2022 · microstartups.co · its alternatives →

23. 23MW
    Micro web framework for low-resource systems – live example on ESP8266▲146

    2015 · ureq.solusipse.net · its alternatives →

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    Microflow▲86

    Microcontrollers made simple.

    Jul 2026 · microflow.tech · its alternatives →

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