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Life & fun · February 6, 2015

Pushpin

Building and scaling realtime APIs made easy

Pushpin launched on February 6, 2015 with 79 votes, #559 of 1,772 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

Reverse proxy for realtime APIs.

Pushpin is a proxy server that pins client connections open, making it easy to build realtime API endpoints. Pushpin supports HTTP streaming, HTTP long-polling, and WebSockets. For compatibility with older browsers, it can also translate from SockJS. Clients communicate using your API contract. Pushpin is a server-side implementation detail. An existing realtime API can be migrated to or away from Pushpin without breaking clients. Since Pushpin is a proxy server, the backend can be written in any language. Convenience libraries are available to make integration easy. With Pushpin, API management systems can manage realtime endpoints. Authentication, analytics, etc. work as you'd expect.…from pushpin.org

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