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Particles is a development tool that stores complete program code directly within URLs. Launched in 2022, it's designed for developers and programmers who want to share, store, or distribute executable code in a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Particles – the URL contains the whole program code launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A lightweight JavaScript library for creating particles.

    2014 · vincentgarreau.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.

    Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →

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    Endpoints.dev is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.

    2020 · endpoints.dev · its alternatives →

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    Particle▲308

    An easier way to keep up with the news

    2024 · particle.news · its alternatives →

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    Hi friends, I started casually working on scrapscript in 2015. I built a few compilers over the years to test out various ideas/implementations, and I think I'm finally happy with the overall design. The code is not public yet. Email me at [email protected] if you're interested in joining the core team later this year. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback :)

    2023 · scrapscript.org · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…

    2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →

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    Repl.it▲399

    Code and deploy apps in any language right from your browser

    2018 · replit.com · its alternatives →

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    Render▲318

    Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

    2019 · render.com · its alternatives →

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    Iterate on cloud apps in milliseconds, not minutes

    2024 · winglang.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I built uncurl.dev to scratch my own itch: I kept getting curl commands in API docs, bug reports, or Slack messages and wanted a quick way to visualize, run, and debug them without firing up Postman or writing code to dissect them. It was also sometimes painful to create a test page specifically for non-tech users to consume an API. I originally vibe-coded this over a weekend just to make it easier for myself to debug API requests shared as curl commands. It slowly grew into something I found surprisingly useful in my workflow, so I decided to clean it up and share it. uncurl.dev…

    2025 · uncurl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests.

    2021 · hurl.dev · its alternatives →

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    massCode▲128

    Free, open-source developer workspace for code snippets, markdown notes, calculations, drawings, and built-in dev tools. Works offline and stores data locally.

    2020 · masscode.io · its alternatives →

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    1MB v3▲227

    Your code editor. In the cloud.

    2020 · 1mb.co · its alternatives →

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    This is a small particles simulation that can run either with WebGPU (GPU Compute) or with the CPU, and it can be changed in real time

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Inspired by Compiler Explorer and other playground/fiddle websites like jsfiddle, db-fiddle, Go playground, and Rust playground, I thought it would be cool to have a playground for nearly any program so I've been working on Program Explorer: a playground for running programs from containers. I am inspired by these playgrounds because they are great educational tools for quickly experimenting and as communication tools by sharing shortlinks that reproduce bugs for instance. I would love for every open source project that publishes a container to get their own playground for free. I'm…

    2025 · programexplorer.org · its alternatives →

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    protoCURL is cURL for Protobuf: The command-line tool for interacting with Protobuf over HTTP REST endpoints using human-readable text formats - qaware/protocurl

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2019 · frontendlane.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Web environment for custom code internal tools

    2023 · fluidspace.app · its alternatives →

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    This repository is outdated and no longer maintained. A new version of massCode is available! https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode. A free and open source code snippets manager for developers. - antonreshetov/massCode

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source blogging platform with inline editing

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight TypeScript library for creating particles

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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