Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Piku, a Micro-PaaS for ARM and x86
The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers. - piku/piku
Piku is a lightweight platform-as-a-service designed for deploying applications on ARM and x86 servers. It enables developers to run and manage applications on their own hardware without relying on major cloud… 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. Piku, a Micro-PaaS for ARM and x86 launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Using only a Raspberry Pi and an $11 video capture dongle, you can create your own KVM over IP device, allowing you to send keyboard input to a remote computer and capture its display.
2020 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →
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Deploy Django on a cloud server you own. Appliku manages the server, and its CLI and agent skill let your AI coding agent deploy and diagnose your app.
2021 · appliku.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · gitkube.sh · its alternatives →
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pi pod runs your pi session in a cloud pod. pipod.dev
22d ago · pipod.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Porter Cloud (https://porter.run/porter-cloud) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku, but we make it easy for you to migrate to AWS, Azure, or GCP when you're ready. Like Heroku, Porter takes care of a lot of generic DevOps work for you (like setting up CI/CD, containerizing your applications, autoscaling, SSL certificates, setting up a reverse proxy) and lets you deploy your apps with a few clicks — saving you a lot of time while developing. However, as you probably know, there’s a downside: platforms like this become constraining if and when your app…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Deploy your applications to any cloud provider or your own servers. No lock-in, full control. From 1 to 1000 servers with Cloud 66
2013 · cloud66.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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A work-in-progress ION SFU remake. Contribute to pion/ion development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation. - pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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coolLabs: Software without compromise. Free, open source, and built for you.
2021 · coollabs.io · its alternatives →
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Pi-card is an AI powered voice assistant running locally on a Raspberry Pi. It is capable of doing anything a standard LLM (like ChatGPT) can do in a conversational setting. In addition, if there is a camera equipped, you can also ask Pi-card to take a photo, describe what it sees, and then ask questions about that. It uses distributed models so latency is something I'm working on, but I am curious on where this could go, if anywhere. Very much a WIP. Feedback welcome :-)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Dokku▲90Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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pygit implements just enough of a Git client (in 500 lines of Python) to create a repo, commit, and push itself to GitHub.
2017 · benhoyt.com · its alternatives →
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Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A developer-focused app PaaS (platform as a service)
2022 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · repobus.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone. I have dedicated 4 years of my life to building a solution for easy deployment of [primarily] Python and Django apps. Think of it as an equivalent of Laravel Forge/Hatchbox but for Python apps. For those who are not familiar – Platform as a service on your cloud or on-prem servers. I have posted here 2 years ago and a lot has changed since then. What's new: - New great and easy to use dashboard - backups for databases - cronjobs - stats resources of servers and apps - tons of stability improvements.
2023 · appliku.com · its alternatives →
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I'm sure folks here have seen pastebins a thousand times. There's no innovation left in this space – and that's kind of the point. When I wanted to self-host a pastebin, every option I found was too much. Git-based version control, OAuth, elaborate admin panels. I just wanted something I could deploy in under a minute with a CLI that actually works. So I built pbnj (yes, like the sandwich). What it is: - A minimal, beautiful pastebin with syntax highlighting for 100+ languages - One-click deploy to Cloudflare (free tier gives you ~100,000 pastes) - CLI-first: pbnj file.py → get a URL, copied…
Dec 2025 · pbnj.sh · its alternatives →
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Sailor is a tiny PaaS to install on your servers/VPS that uses git push to deploy micro-apps, micro-services, sites with SSL, on your own servers or VPS - mardix/sailor
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In which I rewrite my toy pygit client in Go to see how suitable Go is for simple scripts.
2023 · benhoyt.com · its alternatives →
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