Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Oembed ANY URL (Slack-Like URL Previews). Fully Open Sourced. Golang launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   EmbedKit▲104

   oEmbed for any URL

   2014 · its alternatives →

2. 2IB
   I built a free oEmbed API for the web▲61

   2013 · oembed.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   oEmbed▲7

   Embedded representation of a URL on third party sites

   2015 · oembed.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Replit.sh▲91

   Lightweight, free, and open source URL shortener

   2021 · its alternatives →

5. 5CA
   Cortris – A Simple Url Shortener written in Go▲6

   2020 · adalricus.nand.sh · its alternatives →

6. 6
   proc.link▲3

   Oembed ANY url in the internet

   2015 · procoders.tech · its alternatives →

7. 7TI
   T0.io – A simple url shortener▲6

   2016 · t0.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Shout Link▲9

   An API to generate memorable URLs

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9GA
   Gondola, a Django like web framework in Go▲7

   2014 · gondolaweb.com · its alternatives →

10. 10UD
    Url.dev – Self-Destructing URL Shortener and Message Sending▲5

    2020 · url.dev · its alternatives →

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    Shorten – A Personal URL Shortener with GitHub Pages▲12

    Shorten URLs with GitHub repositories and the http-equiv attribute. - kashav/go-url-shortener

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    URLZap – Your own static URL generator▲12

    ⚡️ Your own static URL shortener. Contribute to brunoluiz/urlzap development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    GitHub Pages Generator – Comprehensive scaffolding with frameworks, tools▲8

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    I made an open-source Replit▲9

    I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15CA
    Codeshare.app – open-source pastebin for developers▲5

    2024 · codeshare.app · its alternatives →

16. 16IG
    Interactive Go REPL in Your Browser with WebAssembly▲8

    2018 · gopry.rice.sh · its alternatives →

17. 17HM
    Hoodmaps Meets 4chan▲8

    I made this as a pair programming exercise with o1-preview. o1 did most of the heavy lifting, through high level prompts, but eventually I needed to diverge from it to get to completion. My initial prompt was: --- I'm making a web app: It's like 4chan, but each thread starts with a gps coordinate. People can only post text and images. I want to build it with flask and sqlalchemy. I want just the backend and data model that supports these threads, anonymous users, and users that can register a permanent username. Write as much of it as you can for me. --- This produced a fully scaffolded…

    2024 · mapchan.com · its alternatives →

18. 18FF
    Free, Front-end URL shortening on your own domain▲5

    2017 · chhota.ga · its alternatives →

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    Electron/browser-free reactjs slack app (40M usage)▲9

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    wsgrok▲7

    I built it for myself because ngrok didn't let me add one more domain unless I paid $12 more. I probably should've looked for alternatives before building my own, but my grudge got in the way . Once I started, I wanted to make it better than the other options. Silly, I know. No one probably cares. I plan to open source it sometime next year because I’ve got other projects to finish first. It's free until I deplete my cloud credits, then it will switch to a tier-based model with a free option.

    Jan 2026 · wsgrok.com · its alternatives →

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    Blending Go and WebAssembly to Build Authorization Playground▲5

    Hi folks, I’m one of the maintainers and co-founder of the Go OSS project Permify (https://github.com/Permify/permify), an open-source authorization infrastructure inspired by Google Zanzibar. I would like to share a post where we aimed to provide a brief overview of how we integrated WASM with Golang to provide a richer user experience in our open-source playground. You can use the playground to create and test any authorization logic in a browser. The playground has three main sections: Schema: to model your authorization logic through our domanin specific language we…

    2023 · permify.co · its alternatives →

22. 22UI
    USearch Images demo in 200 lines of Python▲9

    Hey everyone! I am excited to share updates on four of my & my teams' open-source projects that take large-scale search systems to the next level: USearch, UForm, UCall, and StringZilla. These projects are designed to work seamlessly together, end-to-end—covering everything from indexing and AI to storage and networking. And yeah, they're optimized for x86 AVX2/512 and Arm NEON/SVE hardware. USearch [1]: Think of it as Meta FAISS on steroids. It's now quicker, supports clustering of any granularity, and offers multi-index lookups. Plus, it's got more native bindings than probably…

    2023 · usearch-images.com · its alternatives →

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    Fuge, an Erlang Port of GitHub's Scientist Library▲6

    An Erlang library for carefully refactoring critical paths - sthadka/fuge

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Goat, a REST api server in Go▲5

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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