Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Leapcell
Hi HN, This is Isaac, co-founder of Leapcell (https://leapcell.io/). I used to shut down small hobby projects because cloud costs and maintenance were too high. They would just sit on GitHub, unused. Leapcell lets you keep your ideas online without worrying about cost. You can deploy *up to 20 projects for free* using our serverless container architecture, so multiple projects can run simultaneously. Switch between modes as your project grows: - *Serverless*: fast cold start (<250ms), resources scale with traffic, ideal for quickly validating ideas. - *Dedicated machines*:…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Leap▲112We just launched Leap, an AI developer agent that helps you build and deploy apps with real backends to your own AWS or GCP cloud. We built it because every AI app builder we tried fell short. They were fine for prototypes, but not for real systems. No support for proper backend infra, no isolated test environments, and sometimes shockingly no way to own your code. We build Leap to be more appropriate for developers: - Connect GitHub to put your code in a repo you control - Work with code generation using pull request–style revisions with diffs - Get Architecture diagrams and API docs for…
2025 · leap.new · its alternatives →
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Serverless Cloud▲283Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else
2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →
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A low code platform to build internal tools
2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →
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Mycel▲338Bring one past deliverable. Mycel drafts every future one.
Sep 2026 · mycelai.dev · its alternatives →
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Zeroqode▲441Build your app up to 10x faster with no-code app templates
2017 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to build real apps without coding
2016 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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Build the fastest multi-tenant apps with custom domains
2022 · demo.vercel.pub · 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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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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Diploi▲99After 20+ years in consulting you are entitled to build your own deployment platform, right. So that's what we did. We needed something powerful, supporting all stages from development to production, where new developers can be productive in minutes. Something fun to prototype with, with minimal DevOps but still flexible enough for a wide range of projects. We identified three principles 1. Own your stack - Keep as much of your project inside the platform (also databases, S3) so development will match production and cloning and maintaining and testing, will be easy 2. Infrastructure as code…
Mar 2026 · diploi.com · its alternatives →
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Backendless▲99Build scalable apps at lightning speed, coding optional
2023 · backendless.com · its alternatives →
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Base Deploy▲101Build powerful apps faster - without coding
2016 · basedeploy.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I’ve always loved building frontend-only apps—those you can prototype over a weekend, host for free on GitHub Pages, and scale to millions of users. Unfortunately, AI-enabled apps complicate things, as exposing your OpenAI key to the world is obviously a no-go. This also means mobile developers often have to run their own servers. That’s why I built ServerlessAI, an API gateway that lets you securely call multiple AI providers directly from client side using OpenAI-compatible APIs. You can authenticate users through any identity provider, like Google or Apple, and set per-user…
2024 · serverlessai.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Sina here. i wanted to share this open source project (apache 2.0) that i've been working on for the past month or so. it's called hotcell and it lets you create/pause/manage sandboxes on any device (your laptop, linux vm, bare metal). i've tested it against various benchmarks that i found on computesdk (https://www.computesdk.com/benchmarks/sandboxes/) as well as the one shared by dax (cofounder of open code) on twitter recently (link to his original thread and my reply https://x.com/sinasanm/status/2078158598996443346) and…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create a serverless cloud backend with a database and API functions in few minutes! Zero maintenance required, instant provisioning, High availability & Scalability, Woldwide CDN with 113 POPs. 24/7 Professional support.
2017 · cloudbackend.appdrag.com · its alternatives →
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Deploy your app in minutes with serverless architecture
2023 · scaletozeroaws.com · its alternatives →
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Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…
Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →
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Speculos▲19Type "deploy" in Claude Code. Your app is live.
Jul 2026 · speculos.ai · its alternatives →
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the cloud is a walled garden built for profit [ not efficiency ]. you’re paying for idle, autoscaling is too slow, and serverless is a scam. locked in, overcharged, and out of options. lttle.cloud is different. decentralized, open-source, and built for real performance [ sub-10ms cold start ], true pay-for-what-you-use pricing, and zero vendor lock-in. deploy anything as "serverless" from any docker image, no rewrites, no bullshit. powered by the blockchain and built in public, it’s transparent, efficient, and free from vendor lock-in. run your own private cloud or join the decentralized…
2025 · 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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Hey HN, I'm building Uncloud — a lightweight clustering and container orchestration tool that lets you deploy and manage web apps across cloud VMs and bare metal with minimal cluster management overhead. After several years of managing and extending Kubernetes at a unicorn, I realised that I desperately needed a change. All those abstraction layers, unnecessary complexity, boilerplate… I wanted container orchestration to bring me joy again, the way Ansible did when I first tried it a decade ago, or Docker after that. That’s when I decided to start an experiment that is now called Uncloud.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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