Awesome Static Website Services – Massive Collection of Resources

A curated list of services for static websites.

Table of Contents

• Audio
• Books
• Calendar and Scheduling
• Images
• Maps
• Presentations
• Video
• Code
• Functions as a Service FaaS
• GraphQL
• Community
  • Comments
  • Forms
  • Live Chat
  • Newsletters
  • Social Media
  • Surveys
• E-Commerce
• Payments
• Search
• Analytics
• Other
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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 Spotify Play Button.

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 settings page.

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.

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

• Mux – Paid – An API to play videos directly to the client. Can also power live streams.
• YouTube – Embeddable videos with unlimited uploads.
• Vimeo – Paid – Embeddable videos with no ads.
• Vevo – Embeddable music videos.
• Wistia – Free plan has a limit of 25 videos.

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.

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.
• Zeit Now – Zeit Now lets people write functions as a service in their language of choice and deploy as part of a monorepo.

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.

Forms

Really Simple 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.

Normal Forms

• 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 github.com/sindresorhus/ama 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.

Provided by the Host

• Netlify – Netlify comes with built-in form handling.

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.

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.

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.

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

Self-hosted:

• 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

Third party integration:

• 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.

Other

• Sketch Fab – Embeddable 3D content.

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