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Dev tools · November 15, 2022

myws.dev

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

myws.dev launched on November 15, 2022 with 66 votes, #913 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

Managed Websocket at scale. Myws.dev supports various authentication methods. The best part is, you only need standard libs to interact with it. No vendor lock-in. If at any point you want to take it in-house, you don't have to rewrite everything!

Managed Websockets, no vendor lock-in

Millions of concurrency? No problem. Millions of messages per second? Easy peasy. Just bring your own websocket client. In case you wanna take it in-house for some reason, you don't have to rewrite your whole codebase. Any kind of auth you can think of, we support it: allowAny, whitelist only, JWT token. We challenge you to name one that we don't support today, and we'll buildfrom myws.dev

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