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24 alternatives to The Changelog - #189: JSON API with Yehuda Katz

Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Changelog - #189: JSON API with Yehuda Katz launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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2. 2JA
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3. 3AS
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   jsonbin.org▲13

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   2017 · jsonbin.org · its alternatives →

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   Jsong: faster than light streaming JSON parser and writer in C▲9

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   ZipWhois: Simple JSON Whois API and Domain API▲6

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   jsoncompat – a library to detect/fuzz breaking changes in JSON schemas▲7

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10. 10
    Eloquent Javascript▲20

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    JSON Parser▲8

    Awesome way to view JSON.

    2018 · jsonformatter.org · its alternatives →

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    Hjson▲17

    The Human JSON

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    2018 · moltenframework.com · its alternatives →

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    Noise – JSON search engine library▲6

    2017 · noisesearch.org · its alternatives →

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    A simple API to store and retrieve JSON objects▲18

    2015 · openbucket.io · its alternatives →

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    JSONPlus: a json parser with self reference and templating▲7

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    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JSONBason▲15

    I've been at it again, just sharing my simple JSON data inspection tool, love webdev and single page apps, this one took 4 days and was a lot of fun. The code is not obfuscated so you can inspect it and see how it works (very simple, server side is even more simple) Pretty much just do a POST of your JSON data from within your code and it will convert it into a basic table for instant search and sort. Made with love for the fun of it, no ads, no paid anything, it's totally free. Please only send in sanitized/test data only, this is meant to help make webdev a bit easier and more fun.…

    2025 · jsonbason.com · its alternatives →

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    Anything To JSON – a language model for structured extraction▲18

    Hey HN! Erik here from banana.dev We’ve trained a small(ish) language model on structured extraction, and today we’re launching a playground for it at https://anythingtojson.com. Give it a try! This model continues our work on structured generation, following last week’s launch of Fructose[1], a python client for strongly-typed LLM responses. There seem to be two distinct halves of the problem intended to be solved by Fructose and structured generation: 1. the reasoning ability of the model, such as performing chain of thought, creative acts, and natural language tasks. In a way,…

    2024 · anythingtojson.com · its alternatives →

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    Monkberry▲6

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    2016 · monkberry.js.org · its alternatives →

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    2016 · codebeautify.org · its alternatives →

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