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24 alternatives to The Heroku Cookbook

Over 70 step-by-step recipes to solve Heroku Problems

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Heroku Cookbook launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning▲1,359

   Thinking, Fast and Slow - with 523 comments from the Hacker News community

   2021 · hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Heroku CI▲208

   Continuous Integration from Heroku

   2017 · devcenter.heroku.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Heroku▲115

   Cloud application platform

   2014 · heroku.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Dokku▲90

   Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   ReadMe Recipes▲98

   Step-by-step code walkthroughs for your API

   2021 · readme.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation▲189

   Set of scripts and notebooks used to produce results visible in RecipeNLG paper - Glorf/recipenlg

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   heroku.json, our Sunday hack project▲74

   Setting up Heroku apps made easy. Contribute to rainforestapp/heroku.json development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Heroku DX▲122

   The new Heroku developer experience

   2014 · heroku.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   The Bob's Burgers Burger Book▲85

   Real recipes for joke burgers

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    MyCookbook.io▲132

    Create beautiful cookbooks of your favorite online recipes

    2020 · mycookbook.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    RecipeBook by Shofo▲106

    Buy video training data by the hour featuring 25M+ clips

    Jul 2026 · recipebook.shofo.ai · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Morph▲90

    Heroku for Scrapers

    2014 · morph.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Veganomicon▲72

    The ultimate vegan cookbook

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    DB Backups▲73

    An easy way to manage all your Heroku backups

    2021 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Recipelove▲68

    Create, share & store your recipes

    2016 · recipelove.co · its alternatives →

16. 16
    LovelyHeroku▲79

    Scale and debug your Heroku dynos on the go (Android only)

    2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Heroku Vibes▲35

    Your Collaborative Agent For Turning Ideas to Apps

    2025 · vibes.heroku.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Recipfy▲15

    Turn recipe chaos into your personal cookbook.

    2025 · userecipfy.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Cookbook▲84

    Find, deploy, manage any smart contract on Cookbook

    2022 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    My New Roots Cookbook▲75

    100+ simple, delicious, healthy vegetarian recipes

    2016 · books.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    New Heroku Dashboard▲71

    Public beta for their new dashboard

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Programming Pearls▲71

    Clever solutions to classic programming problems

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Kaffeine▲30

    Keep your Heroku app awake

    2015 · kaffeine.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    The Grain Brain Cookbook▲57

    150 Life-changing recipes to transform your health

    2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

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