Awesome Static Website
Services 
A curated list of services for static websites.
Inspired by the awesome list
thing.
Table of Contents
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
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
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.
- Tiledesk - Free Live Chat with
open source chatbot builder.
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.
- 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
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
- Hulipaa - Static
full-text search engine capable of handling thousands of pages with a
minimalist searchbar UI to add to your static website.
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
Authentication
- Uthentic - Serverless,
passwordless login for static sites in 2 lines of code.
Other
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