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24 alternatives to Serverless Apps on Cloudflare – A book on the Cloudflare dev platform

Hello HN! I am Ashley, author of the book Serverless Apps on Cloudflare, and I'm excited to share it with you and hopefully spread the awareness of the powerful and developer-focussed platform that Cloudflare has built, that I believe is currently flying under the radar! For years, I've been building applications on Cloudflare - from websites, to APIs, to Discord bots and everything in-between. The platform has grown hugely in the past few years, to the point it has all the essential building blocks for modern applications. It's also built with engineers in mind, the developer experience…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Serverless Apps on Cloudflare – A book on the Cloudflare dev platform launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN, I'm so excited to finally share with you what I've been working on recently. One month ago I asked my audience what they wanted to learn about Websites, APIs and Servers security [0]. From the feedback, I've identified a few recurring pain points that I've started to address (and many more) in this new book. From theory to practice, you will learn how low-level network and security protocols work. How to configure Cloudflare to secure and scale your web applications. How to create serverless applications and which database to chose with serverless functions. How to optimize your…

    2023 · kerkour.com · its alternatives →

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    Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else

    2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    an agentic cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, documents, and curated urls. - microfeed/microfeed

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The free cloud for doers & dreamers

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    JAMstack platform let you collaborate and deploy for free

    2021 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Deploy projects to Cloudflare Workers using GitHub Actions

    2020 · dash.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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    Inspired by the recent justfuckingusetailwind.com, I built a similar "love letter" to the Cloudflare ecosystem. I find myself reaching for Workers, R2, D1, and KV for almost every project lately, so I wanted to capture that sentiment in a single, slightly over-the-top page. It’s a simple side project, but the stack is: - Vite + TypeScript - Biome + Ultracite - Deployed (obviously) on Cloudflare First draft in Claude, the copy was drafted with Grok to get that specific tone, then I used Google's AI Studio to accelerate the build with touch up's in Cursor. Link:…

    Dec 2025 · justfuckingusecloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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    Drop your folder in browser & deploy instantly on Cloudflare

    Jul 2026 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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    A smarter workflow for Kubernetes & Cloud Native apps

    2021 · cto.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build auto-scaling, pay per execution apps on AWS Lambda

    2016 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    The platform for building stateful AI

    2025 · agents.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13CN

    Hi, I spent the last three months writing a 200+ page book, with 19 corresponding pull requests. https://www.mikenikles.com/cloud-native-web-development It's a hands-on guidebook on how to develop a cloud-native web application based on technologies I am familiar with. Svelte, Tailwind CSS, Cypress.io, Gitpod.io, Firebase & Google Cloud at a high-level. The goal was to walk through the entire end-to-end process, from zero to production! It walks through building a foundation needed to develop on top of. CI / CD, testing, feature toggles, production monitoring, etc. To…

    2020 · 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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    Learn how to write webapps without a framework in Go. - thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple serverless cloud for developers

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Build scalable serverless apps on AWS with Node.js and Claudia.js!

    2017 · manning.com · its alternatives →

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    Build scalable apps at lightning speed, coding optional

    2023 · backendless.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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    Starter Kit for Next.js on Cloudflare

    2024 · its alternatives →

  21. 21BP

    Hi all, I'm one of the authors of Serverless-Stack.com — an open source guide to building full-stack apps with AWS Lambda and React. Since it's launch in 2017, it's become one of the most widely read guides for building Serverless apps. Today we are adding a new section to the guide that walks you through the best practices of building large Serverless applications. It tries to address some of the most common questions that teams have: - How should my project be structured when I have dozens of interdependent services? - How should I manage my environments? - What are the best practice for…

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Build apps with radically less overhead and cost

    2019 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, Milin @Noop.dev[1] here! We're very excited to share Noop Workshop with you! For the past several months we have been preparing to launch the Noop Developer Platform. The platform handles all aspects of running and operating your software. Until a few months ago, our focus was on hosting and running software in the Cloud. But we realized there's a growing need for local development tools that can help make the transition from local development to cloud hosting easier. And so, Workshop was born. We felt existing tools were either too specialized or too disconnected from the specific…

    2024 · noop.dev · its alternatives →

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    I'm the technical co-founder of Baseline, and I wanted to share our latest creation with you all. After struggling with some limitations of other popular frameworks for our own startup projects, we decided to build something better—Baseline. We've designed our framework to address the specific needs of startups like ours that require scalability, reliability, and ease of use without the hefty overheads. We’re launching as an Open-source product. Baseline is built on AWS and leverages serverless technologies to offer a solution that scales automatically and is cost-effective. With other…

    2024 · baselinejs.com · its alternatives →

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