Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Swiftwave – Simple Lightweight Open Source PaaS
Hi HN! I am Tanmoy & today I am releasing stable V2 of Swiftwave. SwiftWave is a self-hosted, lightweight PaaS solution for easily deploying and managing your applications on any server . It's an open-source alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Render. You can install swiftwave in bare metal, Raspberry Pi, in any VPS(Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, GCP etc.). Swiftwave and its dependencies are compatible with AMD64, ARM64 and ARMv7 architectures and compatible with Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian OS/Fedora/CentOS/AlmaLinux/RockyLinux. Checkout…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Swiftwave – Simple Lightweight Open Source PaaS launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2016 · serve.swifton.me · 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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A reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) for all your apps
2020 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →
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Wave 2.0▲306The open source Software as a Service starter kit
2021 · devdojo.com · its alternatives →
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The open source Trello alternative. Contribute to kanbn/kan development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · 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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Kan.bn▲149The open source alternative to Trello for teams and makers
2025 · kan.bn · its alternatives →
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Coolify▲419An open-source & self-hostable Heroku, Netlify alternative
2022 · coolify.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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☁️ An open-source, in-house service platform with a PaaS-like workflow. Internal R&D Luke, Tom, &Joaquim - yldio/paz
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Open Source kanban, built with Meteor. GitHub issues/PRs are only for FLOSS Developers, not for support, support is at https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/ . PR source translation to imports/i18n/data/en.i18n.json, other translations at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan . No telemetry. - wek
2015 · github.com · 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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I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on for the last 2 years. We’re re-inventing the email experience to help you email smarter and faster, so you can get more done, and maybe even actually enjoy your inbox. When we launched Firebase here 10 years ago, HN was tough but fair, and I expect no less this time around! I hope you’ll check out what we’ve built and share your feedback. I’ll be around here all day and am happy to answer any questions. Let us know what you think!
2022 · shortwave.com · its alternatives →
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TUIs for the terminal, desktop, and web. Contribute to ansiwave/nimwave development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We built SwiftAI, an open-source Swift library that lets you use Apple’s on-device LLMs when available (Apple opened access in June), and fall back to a cloud model when they aren’t available — all without duplicating code. SwiftAI gives you: - A single, model-agnostic API - An agent/tool loop - Strongly-typed structured outputs - Optional chat state Backstory: We started experimenting with Apple’s local models because they’re free (no API calls), private, and work offline. The problem: not all devices support them (older iPhones, Apple Intelligence disabled, low battery, etc.). That…
2025 · 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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OpenShip▲154Open source PaaS on your server or in the cloud. No lock in.
Aug 2026 · openship.io · its alternatives →
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I made an open-source project that will take an existing macOS swift project and make it easily compile into a Linux (GTK/ or Qt). It's part of a new quality Swift-first OS I am making called QuillOS. I'm eager for help and for feedback. Also looking for people who have Swift code (there is very little open source swift code) who can give me example apps to compile against this to find any missing holes. The simpler/smaller the better but any size good. It's also easy to convert any working iOS app and adapt it to macOS with Claude, and then also cross-compile to Linux with this.…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sparkwave▲85The web3-native loyalty platform to acquire and retain users
2023 · sparkwave.xyz · its alternatives →
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2011 · substack.net · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been building this solo for about three and a half years. I kept trying every new project/notes tool (Notion, Asana, Trello, etc.) and always ended up back in a plain text file. I wanted something that felt like a text editor on first touch but could grow into real structure when you needed it. https://lightwave.so (desktop only) The tech stack is Laravel, MySQL, Redis, and hand-rolled JavaScript on the client. No frameworks like React/Vue/etc. ~270 lines of jQuery (out of 80k+ total LOC) for a few legacy DOM utilities, plus IndexedDB for local…
Feb 2026 · its alternatives →
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