Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Porter 2.0
Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS/GCP/DO)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Porter 2.0 launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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coolLabs: Software without compromise. Free, open source, and built for you.
2021 · coollabs.io · its alternatives →
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Digger▲354Build on AWS without having to learn it, no-code DevOps
2021 · digger.dev · its alternatives →
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Steampipe▲69Open source SQL interface to your favorite cloud APIs🧑💻
2022 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →
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Nitric Deploy▲197The right infrastructure, auto-provisioned in your cloud
2022 · nitric.io · its alternatives →
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Canine▲136Host with the power of Kubernetes, simplicity of Heroku
2025 · canine.sh · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been working on Canine for about a year now. It started when I was sick of paying the overhead of using stuff like Heroku, Render, Fly, etc to host some web apps that I've built. At one point I was paying over $400 a month for hosting these in the cloud. Last year I moved all my stuff to Hetzner. For a 4GB machine, the cost of various providers: Heroku = $260 Fly.io = $65 Render = $85 Hetzner = $4 (This problem gets a lot worse when you need > 4GB) The only downside of using Hetzner is that there isn’t a super straightforward way to do stuff like: - DNS management / SSL…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Render▲318Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…
2019 · render.com · its alternatives →
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Alicorn Cloud▲173Switch between AWS, GCP and Azure in one click
2021 · alicorncloud.io · its alternatives →
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Self-hosting platform with superpowers. Deploy apps, databases & 280+ services to your server. Open-source alternative to Heroku.
2022 · coolify.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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2021 · cloudoptimizer.io · its alternatives →
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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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2017 · datacol.io · its alternatives →
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2015 · haskellonheroku.com · its alternatives →
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buildpipe▲116Compose, run and automate multi step AI developer workflows
May 2026 · buildpipe.com · its alternatives →
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