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chatwoot/chatwoot

Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Svelte Tailwind CSS Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#actioncable #chat-widget #conversation #customer-support #dashboard #design

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-14
History: 135 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,603 open

37,875

stars

Forks: 9,235
Commits: 6,948 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +184 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +26 +0.4%

Website GitHub

dokku/dokku

A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go Go modules npm pip

GitHub topics

#buildpack #containers #devops #docker #dokku #heroku

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-08
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

32,178

stars

Forks: 2,090
Commits: 14,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

caprover/caprover

Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#aws #azure #caprover #captainduckduck #containers #deployment

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-25
History: 46 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 179 open

15,186

stars

Forks: 1,005
Commits: 2,068 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django

Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest Starlette npm PEP 517 uv

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #celery #cookiecutter #cookiecutter-django #django #django-cookiecutter

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-14
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 103 open

13,609

stars

Forks: 3,069
Commits: 9,391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

piku/piku

The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Express Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#arm #heroku #nodejs #paas #python #raspberry-pi

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-26
History: 133 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

6,602

stars

Forks: 156
Commits: 815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -4 -0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

papercups-io/papercups

Open-source live customer chat

Stack

Elixir Ecto Phoenix Phoenix LiveView React Mix npm

GitHub topics

#chat-widget #customer-support #docker #drift #elixir #elixir-phoenix

Updated: 2024-02-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-14
History: 45 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 179 open

6,103

stars

Forks: 576
Commits: 958 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kubero-dev/kubero

A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes

Stack

TypeScript Express NestJS Vite Vue npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#ci-cd #cloud #coolify #developer-tools #dokku #gitops

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-05-17
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 127 open

4,435

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 2,216 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bpatrik/pigallery2

A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)

Stack

TypeScript Angular Express npm

GitHub topics

#angular2 #gallery #heroku #node-js #photo-gallery #photo-gallery-website

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-12
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 157 open

2,278

stars

Forks: 262
Commits: 2,965 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wabarc/wayback

An archiving tool with an IM-style interface that prioritizes privacy and accessibility, integrated with various archival services including Internet Archive, archive.today, Ghostarchive, IPFS, Telegraph, and file systems.

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#archive #har #heroku #internet-archive #ipfs #irc

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-06-13
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 63 open

2,240

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 539 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

OWASP/NodeGoat

The OWASP NodeGoat project provides an environment to learn how OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web applications developed using Node.js and how to effectively address them.

Stack

HTML Express npm

GitHub topics

#docker #heroku #javascript #nodegoat #nodejs #owasp-top-ten

Updated: 2024-06-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-21
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 118 open

2,075

stars

Forks: 3,006
Commits: 461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mattbrictson/rails-template

My former app template for Rails 7. All recommendations you see here have been moved to https://github.com/mattbrictson/nextgen

Archived

Stack

Ruby npm

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #heroku #rails #rails-generators #vite

Updated: 2023-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,071

stars

Forks: 218
Commits: 422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

adamcooke/procodile

🐊 Run processes in the background (and foreground) on Mac & Linux from a Procfile (for production and/or development environments)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#heroku #process-manager #ruby

Updated: 2021-02-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

612

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 199 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rodyherrera/Quantum

🚀 Hackable & Self-hosted Open-Source alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify, etc. All your applications, just in one place. Develop and deploy with your favorite tools, and enjoy continuous deployment with GitHub.

Stack

TypeScript Fastify React Svelte Tailwind CSS npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#automation #backend #cloud #cloudnative #continuos-delivery #continuous-deployment

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-24
History: 42 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

474

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 1,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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scaffeinate/socify

:rocket: Socify is an open source social networking platform written in Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#heroku #rails #ruby #social-network #socify

Updated: 2019-01-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 18 open

375

stars

Forks: 203
Commits: 203 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eval/envied

Ensures presence and type of your app's ENV-variables (mirror)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#environment-variables #heroku #rails #ruby

Updated: 2025-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

330

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SNathJr/ghost-on-heroku

One-button Heroku deploy for the Ghost 3.2.0 blogging platform.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#blog #blogging #cloudinary #cms #ghost #ghost-blog

Updated: 2023-08-04
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2014-12-27
History: 37 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4 open

229

stars

Forks: 237
Commits: 219 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jetthoughts/vuejs-rails-starterkit

Vue.js + Rails Starting Kit GitHub Template to develop Hybrid Mobile Application: https://vuejs-rails-starterkit.herokuapp.com

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate-template #hackathon #heroku #nodejs #rails #rails-boilerplate

Updated: 2023-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

212

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 7 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lockstep/rails_new

A thoughtfully designed template for building modern Rails apps. Get started in minutes instead of hours 🔥🚀

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#figaro #heroku #pry #rails #rspec #ruby

Updated: 2023-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

163

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AgileVentures/WebsiteOne

A website for Agile Ventures

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#agile #cucumber #heroku #open-source #opensource #rspec

Updated: 2024-04-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-08
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

144

stars

Forks: 239
Commits: 5,282 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simplymadeapps/simple_scheduler

An enhancement for Heroku Scheduler + Sidekiq for scheduling jobs at specific times.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron #heroku #scheduler #sidekiq

Updated: 2025-11-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

133

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

slyapustin/django-chatbot

Django Chatbot with Celery, Channels (WebSocket)

Stack

Python Celery Django pip

GitHub topics

#celery #chatbot #django #django-celery #django-channels #dokku

Updated: 2025-11-05
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2019-07-02
History: 40 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

110

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 95 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

JessVel/sakura-card-captor-api

No description.

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#express #heroku #javascript #mongodb #nodejs

Updated: 2021-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-26
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 36 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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