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Awesome-loginless: internet services that don't require registrations
- gonesilent 5y agocamelcamelcamel.com has never needed a login 10+ years of Amazon price data I love to collect.
- ai_ia 5y agoHow does the website scrape price data from Amazon? I don't think Amazon provides Api to do that? Any idea?
- strombofulous 5y agoThey specifically forbid price-tracking websites from their affiliate program but camelcamelcamel still uses affiliate links, so they probably have a similar arrangement for a private API.
- ai_ia 5y agoThat makes sense.
- AnonHP 5y agoIt’s always interesting to bump into previously unknown services and sites, but these lists tend to get outdated over time. The most recent commit on this one was in April 2020 (a whole year and a half ago), and it shows. Going through the first few items, I see volatile.wtf showing an under construction page, and Formspree requires registration. I’m getting to know of new/unknown (to me) sites, but I’ll ignore the “no registrations” qualifier in the title.
- brandonarnold 5y agoAre people really that scared shitless about their email address that they don't even want a site to have the option of signup/login?
- pickledish 5y agoAt least IMO, the neat thing about these isn't a privacy thing, it's that when you don't have an identity associated with the usage of your service, you have to answer some interesting questions (data persistence? Rate limiting? Cost, or is it low enough that it can just be free for everyone anonymously? Etc) which make the solutions fun to check out
- d1lanka 5y ago> Are people really that scared shitless about their email address that they don't even want a site to have the option of signup/login? When data theft / leaks are an inevitably, yes. T-mobile alone has gotten their customer data hacked 5 or 6 times.
- burnafter182 5y agoI don't think it's a question of fears as much as it is the pain in the ass. I can't tell you how many times I've registered to a website to use it just once for one single feature, but I assure you it's many. But yeah, I also don't want associated with them, I don't want accounts, and I don't want to put a superfluity of my information in someone else's hands. So these sorts of sites are quite nice.
- loxias 5y agoI envy how little spam you must receive!
- sumtechguy 5y agoMy low amount of spam is specifically because I make sure I do not give that email to just any random website. That includes this one. Some people I know get 2k per week in junk email. The ones I do get I know exactly who sold my email to someone else.
- jaltekruse 5y agoLooks like there is a similar one that has more things on it too. https://github.com/aviaryan/awesome-no-login-web-apps https://github.com/aviaryan/awesome-no-login-web-apps
- pickledish 5y agoAh yeah that seems to have a bunch of neat stuff too, thanks for sharing it!
- anontrot 5y agohttps://hosthtml.live https://hosthtml.live seems ok as well
- beefman 5y agoPortfolio Visualizer deserves a spot in the Money section https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com Edit: There's currently no Games section, but lichess.org does a great job exposing functionality with no login.
- ai_ia 5y agoI added try without signing up in my app[1]. Yet some users still use disposable mails, so there is that. From a app developer perspective, it is definitely a downside when people use your app without email. You have no longer way to contact them for feedback or updating them on new releases. But it definitely filters genuine users. And also, people are more likely to checkout your app when you provide guest sign on. I remember reading that Paulo Coelho distributed free copies of his books[2], so that people actually read what he wrote. Same with an early stage app, you should allow people to use what you have built as frictionlessly as possible, IMHO. [1]: https://primerlabs.io https://primerlabs.io [2]: https://www.openculture.com/2011/09/how_paulo_coelho_started_pirating_his_own_books.html https://www.openculture.com/2011/09/how_paulo_coelho_started...
- _8j50 5y agoBe straightforward about your intent and ask users to share email for feedback or whatever reason and if they want let them disclose voluntarily. Whatever goods or services you provide, do so in exchange for money only, absolutley anything else that is mandatory is a cost to users. This is not just an online thing, I get ever so more infuriated when they hassle me about giving them info at a brick and mortar store. I worked for my money, the only reason I am not just taking your stuff or forcing you to provide me service is because we have laws where all are equal and I am not your subject that you get to offer or deny me goods and services in exchange for compelling me to do things. I exchange my time and labor for wages so that I can exchange these taxed (!!) wages in exchange for goods and services. This attempt to subvert the social contract which is the foundation of government, liberty and commerce is as old as civilized society. There were many times in the past (recent ones being jim crow era, apartheid, nazi germany to name a few) where ability to engage in commerce was dictated by businesses against individuals as a means of subjugating others. Abuse of the priviledge to engage in commerce in order to implement some other agenda. I don't care if you just want to tell people about new product updates or you have a more malicious intent, my money is legal tendor and if commerical entities have power to deny business based on my identity then I no longer have equal voice or power as everyone else, I no longer enjoy the same privilege of being able to exchange wages for goods and services because of my identity. I mean this is absolutley enraging to me. I was initially hesitant but I listened to reason and decided to get vaccinated, guess what? The amount of questions they ask is intolerable, all sort of crap that had nothing to do with being vaccinated. Home address, employer, phone number, email address. And they didn't even care about the vaccination card enough to fill out my name on it, they gave me a blank card to put any name I want on it. at least they collected my info. This imbalance of power between individuals and businesses is unsustainable. If someone can compel you to disclose information, they are excercising power over you. if you are unable to do the same to them, there is inequality, an imbalance of power. Neither the government nor businesses should be able to collect information about people beyond what is demonstrably and transparently neccesary to provide goods and services in exchange for taxed or paid wages. This is as much a failure of government as it is inability of society to catch up with the imbalances of power and perverse incentives created by modern technology (but like I said, even without technology information about people's identity was abused against them this way, except tech empowers malice as much as it does benevolence) Sorry for the rant, just a pet-peeve of mine.
- IgorPartola 5y agopatchbay seems super cool!
- snvzz 5y agoMost image boards such as 4chan do not require registration either.
- scottydelta 5y agoMy startup, a Bloomberg terminal alternative let's users see and browse data without login for any stock. The idea is to limit friction between user and the data. https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC
- frakkingcylons 5y agoWhy do people insist on referring to web apps with generic stock data as an alternative to the terminal? Even ignoring the fact that this is focused only on equities, the terminal is built around power users. it needs to be like vim. Super fast and you can access everything without leaving the keyboard.
- nly 5y agoTo be fair, if access to reliable, realtime (not delayed) market data was free or cheaply available, then I have no doubt that the open-source community would produce something better than the BB Terminal. It's phenomenal how much energy and engineering time is wasted at hundreds of financial firms developing feed handlers for all the different exchanges that they wish to access, let alone the monetary and logistical cost of getting access. I mean for many exchanges you're talking 5 figures per month for for a a 1 Mbps multicast UDP stream with a primitive protocol, poor specs / documentation and no SDK for developing anything. If anyone could go to the NYSE we site and sign-up for access at a reasonable cost, and get access like any other modern web API, there would be a lot more innovation.
- ydant 5y agoJust a minor bug/issue report - if you use lowercase for the symbol, most of the page works fine - except the main chart: https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/amc https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/amc vs. https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC
- scottydelta 5y agohey, thanks for catching this bug, I will fix it in next release in a couple of days. If you have signed up then email me at my email on profile and I can extend your trial to a couple of months. Thanks again.
- braramod 5y agoHow about remove.bg? It's a service that you can use for free that doesn't require any registrations. As the name states, it offers background removal with the help of AI.
- davidkuennen 5y agoI created https://stockevents.app https://stockevents.app with the focus to not require an account as well. Maybe you can add it. I made a pull request.
- matbatt38 5y agoShouldn't Wikipedia be on that list?
- woolion 5y agoActually some awesome services! In particular the coursicle link describe how to implement a persistent, restorable loginless in a simple fashion, which is quite interesting on its own. https://www.coursicle.com/blog/loginless-a-new-standard-for-user-identification.php https://www.coursicle.com/blog/loginless-a-new-standard-for-...
- jpl56 5y agoJust booked a visit at Fondation Louis Vuitton, art museum in Paris [0]. I was able to choose a time slot and pay my ticket without the need to create an account. Loved it! [0] https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/fr https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/fr
- plondon514 5y agoI've been working on https://codeamigo.dev https://codeamigo.dev, where people can take and create byte-sized interactive coding tutorials, and recently removed the requirement to register
- mro_name 5y agoI first came across that idea with the pastebin https://github.com/sebsauvage/ZeroBin https://github.com/sebsauvage/ZeroBin and was blown away. Auto-expire make it huge. Meanwhile I became a fan of jitsi and https://framapad.org https://framapad.org as well.
- Klasiaster 5y agopatchbay.pub could get a secure mode where the channel is the public key and only can only push to it when you have the private key (e.g, by signing the pushed messages, in case streaming is needed this could be done through splitting it into blocks that get concatenated transparently for the receiver).
- robbiejs 5y agoDoes https://editcsvonline.com https://editcsvonline.com count? It's an Excel-like CSV-editor that does not require an account. It's made with localstorage and a save button :-)
- 1_player 5y agoLooks like you're the author. I feel this should have its own Show HN post!
- robbiejs 5y agoYes I am! Thanks! I have tried that before, it got only a few upvotes! The Excel-like component DataGridXL did reach the HN homepage, July last year. I plan to release v2 December 2021 :-) Stay tuned!
- alexmojaki 5y agoI just gave this a quick try. I entered "1,2" in the first cell and "3" in the second cell, no quotes. Then I saved, and the raw output looks like this: 1,2,3,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ... (100 lines total) Most importantly, the comma in "1,2" was not escaped or quoted, so opening the same CSV that I saved produces a different result. But also, all the extra commas is pretty weird, at least by default. And I don't see any configuration for that anyway.
- robbiejs 5y agoThanks for your feedback. The app doesn't have export configuration at this moment, I made this free app as a means to promote/demonstrate the Excel-like component DataGridXL that the app uses. I have received similar feedback before and I plan to tackle these issues next year, after DGXL2 is released. Thanks again! Robbert
- tluyben2 5y agoWe have been running 15 years[0] without the need to sign up (and free by the way); it is often a struggle, mostly because people get angry when they forget the secret URL (for safety, we redirect, which was probably not a good idea, but it's been over 15 years...) and then expect me to 'magically' find their data in many millions of tables. If you do make an account, it is easier to manage many tables, but I know people who use a Google sheet to manage urls in our system. [0] https://flexlists.com https://flexlists.com (there is a more modern design being launched in november)
- vitorfs 5y agoMy favorite free/loginless tool is https://excalidraw.com/ https://excalidraw.com/ I use it on a daily basis to quickly sketch some ideas and document features etc
- somedude895 5y agocurlmail sounded cool, but the url forwards to random spam websites. I guess that one doesn't work anymore. Was originally posted on HN in 2018 [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18504099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18504099
- lavrton 5y agoI made https://studio.polotno.dev/ https://studio.polotno.dev/ as a Canva alternative with login-less workflow.
- oron 5y agoWow, this is mind blowing, how simple and polished this is. I have tons of ideas on how to use it.
- sharat87 5y agoThere's also https://prestigemad.com https://prestigemad.com, a text based API testing tool, like Postman. I'm the developer behind it and is open source at https://github.com/sharat87/prestige https://github.com/sharat87/prestige. Login not required!