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24 alternatives to myws.dev

Add WebSocket to your app within 5 min, no vendor lock-in

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. myws.dev launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    While I was building Neeyer (https://neeyer.com), a location based social app, which I'll do another post later. I found it hard to find a managed Websocket service without vendor lock-in. So I built myws.dev and been using it for my app. I know this is something I'd use myself (and I AM using it). So I hope this helps you too focus on your own app instead of infrastructure.

    2022 · myws.dev · its alternatives →

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    An demo app for lattice-core. Contribute to jasonl99/card_game development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

    2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

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    Dwolla.js▲203

    Bank verification for developers in just a few lines of code

    2015 · dwolla.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE. As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort. So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource…

    2022 · superblocks.com · its alternatives →

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    A realtime server for the modern web

    2016 · deepstream.io · its alternatives →

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    Socket▲211

    Secure your JavaScript supply chain

    2022 · socket.dev · its alternatives →

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    WebSockets are easy now

    2015 · websocketd.com · its alternatives →

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    Excited to share the project I've been working on for the past 7 months! We've seen nearly weekly attacks against the open source software supply chain. I saw the seeds of this trend start in the mid 2015s as an open source maintainer and I've watched it only get worse over the years. I finally decided to try to solve this problem. Socket is taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities. Unlike other scanning tools, Socket actually analyzes the…

    2022 · socket.dev · its alternatives →

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    Notifyz▲145

    Create, Subscribe, Notify All in One Place

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Persistent AI agents. Up to 40% faster.

    Mar 2026 · developers.openai.com · its alternatives →

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    SimpleID▲150

    Add decentralized auth and storage to your app in 10 minutes

    2019 · simpleid.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Integrate Slack notifications to your app in 5 minutes

    2018 · bearer.com · its alternatives →

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    :zap: Optimizing Python code by implementing a C++ extension - szabolcsdombi/optimization-demo

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Adding auth to your app has never been this easy Tl;dr: Test drive the sample code https://github.com/hellocoop/hello-nextjs-sample/ In the video below, we walk through test-driving the sample repo: We then add Hellō to one of the Next.js sample apps per this post: Note the pointer to the clock so y

    2023 · blog.hello.dev · its alternatives →

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    Lockbox is a forward proxy for making third party API calls. - mkjt2/lockbox

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Low-code custom workflow automation tool

    2021 · viasocket.com · its alternatives →

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    Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Contribute to coder/websocket development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Add real-time sync to your platform, in minutes.

    2020 · pathfix.com · its alternatives →

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    A CLI development tool for WebSocket APIs. Contribute to eliihen/wsta development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    World's most intelligent web app & API security scan tool

    2024 · zerothreat.ai · its alternatives →

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    I built a Chrome extension that acts as a WebSocket proxy, allowing real-time monitoring, message simulation, and traffic interception. Think "Proxyman for WebSockets" but integrated into Chrome DevTools. Key features: Real-time WebSocket monitoring and message capture Send custom messages in both directions (client ↔ server) Block incoming/outgoing messages for testing Background monitoring (captures connections even when DevTools is closed) Why: I was debugging a WebSocket chat app and needed better tools than browser DevTools. Existing solutions required external proxies or were too…

    2025 · websocket-devtools.com · its alternatives →

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    Securely connect your front-end web app to APIs, in minutes

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    A middleware to plug your Express app into IFTTT.com - b00gizm/express-ifttt-webhook

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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