Awesome Static Website Services

A curated list of services for static websites.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

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
• Authentication
• Other
• Related Lists

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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.
• 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 OpenStreetMap 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

• 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.
• 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