Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks
Hello Hacker News! We're Joseph, Kieran and David from elestio (https://elest.io/). We've built a platform that offers open-source software as a managed service - we take care of the OS and app updates, security, SSL, networking, backups, the whole deal. In 2009, we started deploying open-source software for websites and web apps we built, many for SMB and enterprise customers. Our process was basically: spin up VM's from a hosting provider, install the software we needed, then update it manually / when it was needed / critical, etc. Once we hit > 100…
Elestio is a managed hosting platform for over 150 open-source software stacks. It handles operating system and application updates, security patches, SSL certificates, networking, and backups automatically. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable. - HeyPuter/puter
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) for all your apps
2020 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →
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OpenStatus▲434Hey HN! We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are [email protected] and [email protected]. Thank you!
2025 · openstatus.dev · its alternatives →
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Keep▲682The open-source alerts management and automation platform
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Distr is designed to help software engineers distribute and manage their applications or agents in customer-controlled or shared-responsibility environments. You only need a Docker Compose file or Helm chart—everything else for on-prem is handled by the platform. We’re are an open source dev tool company. Over the past couple of months, we’ve spoken with dozens of software companies to understand their challenges with on-prem deployments. We analyzed the internal tools they’ve built and the best practices from existing solutions, combining them into a prebuilt, Open Source solution that…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unubo 2.0▲324Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases
2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →
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Phase▲383Open source platform for teams and AI agents to securely access, manage and deploy application secrets — from development to production.
2024 · phase.dev · its alternatives →
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We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding: - Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects. - Each project has to market is self to get significant funding. - Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many. - Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms? So we…
2022 · stackaid.us · its alternatives →
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Run functions on demand, scale automatically
2022 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →
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Kodosumi▲167Hi Hacker News, I’m part of the team behind Kodosumi. We built it because deploying agentic services in production was much harder than building proof-of-concepts. Many frameworks let you build agents, but when you want them to run long tasks, scale across machines, or be observed/monitored reliably, things fall apart. Kodosumi is our answer to that. It’s an open-source runtime that uses Ray + FastAPI + Litestar to let you: Deploy “agents” and “flows” and expose APIs easily, with minimal config (just one YAML) Scale horizontally for bursty workloads and long-running tasks without losing…
2025 · kodosumi.io · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…
2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buildstash▲168Hey HN! We just launched open sign up on Buildstash. It's a platform for managing and sharing software binaries. I'd worked across game dev, mobile apps, and agencies - and found every team had no real system for managing their built binaries. Often just dumped in a shared folder (if someone remembered!). No system for versioning, keeping track of who'd signed off what when, or what exact build had gone to a client, etc. Existing tools out there for managing build artifacts are really focused on package repository management. But miss all the other types of software not being deployed that…
2025 · buildstash.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Mohammed, a technical founder who loves shipping and giving back to the community. I'm open-sourcing the full-stack engine that powers my B2B product, apflow.co. What it is: A production B2B starter with a Go backend and Next.js frontend. Both are fully Dockerized with separate containers. No Vercel. No Supabase. Deploy the whole thing on a $6 VPS, or split frontend and backend across different providers. You own the infrastructure. The problem I was solving: Every SaaS starter I evaluated had the same issue: they locked me into someone else's platform. Vercel for hosting.…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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hey guys. the other day i was migrating hosting providers and i just needed something not too heavy and convenient to spin up my backups for awhile and realised there is almost nothing out there. kimchi hasn't been updated for years and cockpit is heavy. so here's something i came up with in a couple hours because of a sudden urge, nothing fancy just basic creation with cloud init, lifecycle management and image/storage, but it's modern-ish and it compiles to a 8.4mb binary inclusive of the embedded web UI, CLI and API, and only dep is libvirt.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Deploy open-source apps on a dedicated server. Pick an app, a region, and a plan. Pay by the hour, capped monthly.
5d ago · onedeploy.co · its alternatives →
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ModernCloud▲101A browser-based serverless platform that is open-source
2021 · moderncloud.io · its alternatives →
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Fusio is an open source API management platform designed for API builders and developers.
2024 · fusio-project.org · its alternatives →
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Golang is an incredible language for web development. That being said, indie developers and small businesses will likely miss extensive resources found in other projects like Django. Although building an application from the ground up using the standard library is possible, it can be error prone and time consuming. Pocketbase has almost everything an indie developer needs, supporting database, authentication, and file storage into a single, easy-to-deploy executable. Combined with HTMX, and you can created a full stack web application without bloated front end frameworks. That being said,…
2024 · deploysolo.com · its alternatives →
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