9 Hand Picked FREE Heroku Alternatives [2023]

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  • vercel

    Develop. Preview. Ship.

  • Vercel is a cloud-based platform that provides users with the most modern UI/UX to deploy their websites and applications within minutes. It is focused on providing an easy-to-use solution for building and deploying websites and applications.

  • hugo-quick-start

    Hugo Quick Start on Render

  • Render is a powerful cloud platform designed to simplify the process of building, deploying, and scaling websites and applications. It has gained popularity among developers due to its ease of use, reliability, and robust set of features.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • templates

    Railway starters (by railwayapp)

  • Railway is like a copy of Heroku but with slight differences. The platform's UX is top notch, and their pricing and restrictions are good enough to make it a viable Heroku alternative.

  • pages-gem

    A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages

  • GitHub Pages is a free web hosting service provided by GitHub. You can easily create and host static websites served directly from your project's GitHub repository.

  • starter-workflows

    Accelerating new GitHub Actions workflows

  • It also supports popular website generators such as Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc. You can also use custom GitHub Actions to create your own publishing pipeline in a matter of minutes.

  • flyctl

    Command line tools for fly.io services

  • Fly.io is an edge computing platform that empowers developers to optimize their applications for lightning-fast performance and global delivery.

  • quickstart-android

    Firebase Quickstart Samples for Android

  • Netlify and Firebase are also great tools to deploy basic frontend apps for free.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • google-cloud-cpp

    C++ Client Libraries for Google Cloud Services

  • If you need finer control over your stack, AWS / GCP / Azure are the leading cloud services.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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