awesome-static-website-services
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📄 🛠A curated list of awesome static websites services
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Static website services catalog
A curated list of services for building static websites
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Audio
- SoundCloud
Audio hosting with an embeddable player. Up to 3 hours of content is free
- Mixcloud
Audio hosting with unlimited uploads and an embeddable player
- Spotify
You can embed any song, album, or playlist with a
Books
Google Books
Allows you to display the books in your Google Books Library
- Goodreads API and widgets
Allows you to access any of the Goodreads data. Widgets are found on the widgets tab on your
- Open Library Open API
— Allows to retrieve book data from the biggest books open dataset on Earth, without any tracking
Calendar and Scheduling
- Google Calendar
Embeddable calendar that you can collaborate with other people
- Booking.js
Beautiful embeddable booking widget
- zenplanner
Paid - Online scheduling for fitness
Images
- Flickr
Online photo hosting by Yahoo
- Cloudinary
Image hosting, manipulation and delivery
Maps
- Google Maps
Google maps are easily embeddable
- Mapbox
Really nice looking embeddable maps
- uMap
Create and embed personalized maps, based on the great dataset
Presentations
- Prezi
Online presentations with really transitions that can zoom and rotate
- Reveal.js
HTML presentation framework
- Slides.com
A place for creating, presenting and sharing slide decks
- SpeakerDeck
Upload your slides as a PDF, and get an online, shareable presentation
Video
Video / Code
- Codepen
A playground of embeddable front-end code examples
- JS Bin
Embeddable front-end code examples
- JSFiddle
Embeddable front-end code examples
- highlight.js
Syntax highlighting for the web
- Indiepen
A privacy-friendly solution to embed front-end code examples
Functions as a Service
1Backend
Deploy your backend in seconds. Free tier included. Open source
- AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume
- Google Cloud Functions
Create single-purpose, stand-alone functions that respond to Cloud events without the need to manage a server or runtime environment
- Webtask by Auth0
Call code on the server with simple HTTP, easier to set up by far than Lambda or Google's
- Azure Functions
by Microsoft - same premise as Lambda on the Azure cloud
- IronWorkers
by Iron.io - Run code in a multilanguage containerized environment with unlimited scale and simple pricing
- IronFunctions
by Iron.io - IronFunctions is an open source serverless computing platform for any cloud - private, public, or hybrid
- OpenWhisk by IBM
part of their BlueMix hosting platform, and open source, ties into their Watson AI ecosystem nicely
- StackPath EdgeEngine
Write functions as a service in the language of your choice and deploy them to a global network of data centers. All the networking, including intelligent routing and load balancing, is managed by StackPath over a private backbone
- Cloud 66
Build and deploy static websites to your own cloud account
- Vercel
Vercel lets people write functions as a service in their language of choice and deploy as part of a monorepo
- Azure Static Web Apps
Full-stack static app hosting including serverless Functions, authentication, CDN and more
- Qoddi
Full stack app hosting with data storage included, similar to Heroku with a developer centric approach. Free to use up to 3 apps
- Autocode
Autocode turns functions into scalable web services in an instant, no configuration required; serverless hosting available with an in-browser IDE, an API library that’s easy to use, and seamlessly managed authentication
GraphQL
- FaunaDB
Serverless GraphQL database. Free tier with no time limit. Easily included in Netlify apps
Community / Comments
Staticman
Staticman is a Node.js application that receives user-generated content and uploads it as data files to a GitHub repository. In practice, this allows you to have dynamic content (e.g. blog post comments) as part of a fully static website, as long as your site automatically deploys on every push to GitHub, as seen on GitHub Pages, Netlify and others
- Disqus
Easily embeddable comments with nested replies, multiple login methods, and email notifications
- Facebook Comments
Embeddable comments for your site by Facebook
- IntenseDebate Comments
Embeddable comments with nested replies, multiple login methods, and email notifications
- LiveFyre
Real-time comments, SEO-optimized, stocked with social features, and beautiful on both desktop and mobile
- Redditjs Embed Widget
Embed Reddit comments on your site. If it hasn't been posted, it will show a link to encourage the user to submit
- Muut.com
Embeddable comments, forum and private messaging. A lot of functionality, but really low footprint left on your website
Gitment
Comment system based on GitHub Issues, which can be used in the frontend without any server-side implementation
giscus
A comments widget built on GitHub Discussions
- utterances
A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
Community / Forms
- Formspree
Receive emails from a form on your static website
- elFormo
Simple form processing and response retrieval via email
- Flipmail
Simple form processing and response retrieval via email
- MailThis
Simple form submissions via email with optional attachments
- Simple Form
Simple forms with optional file attachments, email notifications, and online submission viewing
Brisk Forms
Free form submission service emails you responses while keeping your email address private and is open source
- 99 Inbound
Form endpoint service with email/Slack notifications and third party app integrations (e.g. MailChimp)
- Getform
Form backend platform for designers and developers, with email and integrations
- HeyForm
Free, easy-to-use drag & drop form maker capable of crafting powerful online forms. Includes 40+ field types, integrations, analytics, and more
- Form.taxi
Backend to handle form submissions easily and reliably, with email notifications, file uploads and GDPR-compliant data processing
- Formcarry
Hassle-free HTML form endpoints for your form, powerful dashboard, reliable spam blocking, attachment uploads and Zapier integrations
- Formcake
The form backend built for developers: Zapier integrations, simple endpoint API, unlimited forms
- Google Forms
Saves results into Google Sheets and can email you when there is a submission
- FormKeep
Paid - View form submissions in a beautiful web interface. It has spam filtering and it integrates with webhooks such as Gmail, Trello, and Basecamp
- 123 Contact Form
Connects to other online services such at MailChimp, Salesforce, and Google Drive. It also integrates with payment Processers and includes security and analytics
- FormAssembly
Allows you to build any kind of form that can include complex branching logic and multiple pages
- FormSite
Form builder with payments and form management
- FormStack
Forms with A/B testing, partial submission, analytics, and integrations
- Sheetsu
POST and GET your data to Google Spreadsheet
- Typeform
Awesome forms that can be embedded
- Wufoo
Free or Paid - Forms that you can build with a form designer, with notifications, reports, and payments
- Zoho
Forms with file upload and captcha
- GitHub Issues
This is an interesting way for developers to get comments/questions. See for an example
Utterences
A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
- FormBackend
Create form-backends and submit your HTML forms to our backend. View the entries online and connect to other services. Receive an email every time a new entry is submitted
- Pageclip
A flexible server / backend for HTML forms. View your data in the realtime web interface, or use the API to get CSV and JSON output
- Formester
Forms and email marketing (lead collection, email campaigns, and newsletters) with integrations
- StaticKit
Modern forms for static sites, with native support for React
- SheetDB
Turn a Google Spreadsheet into a JSON API
- Form2Channel
Post your HTML form to Form2Channel to store submissions in Google Sheets and receive them via email, Slack or Telegram. No signups, no costs, no limits
- reCAPTCHAme
reCAPTCHA and hCAPTCHA token verification service. Post your form to reCAPTCHAme to avoid getting spammed. Made for static websites, no server-side coding required
- Netlify
Netlify comes with built-in form handling
Community / Live Chat
- jivochat
JivoSite is a professional live chat for websites that was specifically designed to increase your online sales
- LiveChat
Live chat on your website
- Olark
Live chat on your website. You can also see who's on your website and what they're doing
- SnapEngage
Live chat with integrations and custom styles
- tawk.co
Lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website
- WebsiteAlive
Live chat for your website & social networks
- Zopim
Live chat with free trial
- Tiledesk
Free Live Chat with open source chatbot builder
Community / Newsletters
- MailChimp
Free email marketing. You can pay to add more features
- Constant Contact
Email marketing with campaigns, autoresponders, and analytics
- AWeber
Email marketing with campaigns, autoresponders, and analytics
- Campaign Monitor
Email marketing with campaigns, autoresponders, and analytics
- MailerLite
Free email marketing. You can pay for more subscribers
Community / Social Media
- Pinterest
Pin It Button
- Twitter
Embedded tweets
- Facebook
Facebook embedded plugins
- ShareThis
Sharing buttons for multiple social networks
- Kontaktify
A contact widget that provides an easy way for visitors to get in touch
Community / Surveys
- Google Forms
You can use Google forms for surveys or for forms on your site
- SurveyMonkey
Easy to use and free surveys
- Typeform
Really beautiful forms
- Qualaroo
Embed surveys anywhere on your website that comes up from the bottom right side of the screen
- Insight Stash
Fast, Simple survey forms
E-Commerce
- Ecwid
Embeddable shopping cart
- FoxyCart
Add a shopping cart with basic html code
- Snipcart
Include a few lines of code for a full online shop
- Gumroad
An all-in-one solution to sell your work
- Payhip
An embeddable way to sell digital downloads & memberships
- Moltin
Add eCommerce functionality to anything
- Trolley
Add a popup cart to any website - designed for static & JAMstack sites
- Commerce Layer
Add enterprise ecommerce to your JAMstack
Payments
- MoneyButton
Website payments and donations using Bitcoin (Satoshi's Vision)
- ShapeShift Shifty Button
Accept payments using various cryptocurrencies
Search
- lunr.js
Simple full-text search in your browser
itemsjs
Full text, faceted, almost dependency free search engine in javascript
minisearch
Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node
flexsearch
Next-Generation full text search library for Browser and Node.js
- fuse.js
Powerful, lightweight fuzzy-search library, with zero dependencies
static-search
A Go program to generate JSON index of HTML files, and a JavaScript component with optional UI to search this index
- elasticlunr
Lightweight full-text search engine developed in JavaScript for browser search and offline search based on Lunr.js
tinysearch
Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
- js-search
Client-side searches of JavaScript and JSON objects, ES5 compatible and does not require jQuery or any other third-party libraries
search-index
A persistent, network resilient, full text search library for the browser and Node.js
fuzzysearch
Tiny and blazing-fast fuzzy search in JavaScript
fuzzy
Fuzzy search / filter for browser and node
- fullproof
Javascript library that provides high-quality full-text search in the browser
- Jets.js
Native CSS search engine
Hulipaa
Static full-text search engine capable of handling thousands of pages with a minimalist searchbar UI to add to your static website
- Google Custom Search Engine
Search your site with a custom Google Search
- Algolia
Hosted Search API that delivers instant and relevant results from the first keystroke
- CloudSh
Powerful search for your website with a few lines of JavaScript
Analytics
- Google Analytics
Freemium web analytics service offered by Google
- Simple Analytics
💲 - Simple, clean, and friendly analytics
Authentication
- Uthentic
Serverless, passwordless login for static sites in 2 lines of code
Other
- Sketch Fab
Embeddable 3D content
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