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Deploying apps to the Heroku platform and its clones.

As of , the most-starred Heroku projects on GitHub are 30-Days-Of-Python (76.4K stars), awesome-cheatsheets (46.6K stars) and chatwoot (37.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 15 Heroku repositories with 330.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was 30-Days-Of-Python, with +87 stars in a day.

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330.5KStars in total
+123Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+87

30-Days-Of-Python

Asabeneh/30-Days-Of-Python · ★ 76.4K

A free 30-day structured curriculum for learning Python from scratch, covering everything from basic syntax to building web APIs and working with databases.

+32

chatwoot

chatwoot/chatwoot · ★ 37.9K

Chatwoot is an open-source, self-hosted customer support platform that unifies live chat, email, and social channels (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Line, SMS) into one inbox, positioned as an alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, and Salesforce Service Cloud.

+3

awesome-cheatsheets

LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets · ★ 46.6K

A curated collection of cheatsheets covering popular programming languages, frameworks, databases, and development tools, each condensed into a single reference file.

+1

dokku

dokku/dokku · ★ 32.2K

Dokku is a Docker-powered PaaS (Platform as a Service) - a self-hosted, minimal Heroku alternative that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications on your own server.

The all-time top

15 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Asabeneh/30-Days-Of-Python

    30-Days-Of-Python

    A free 30-day structured curriculum for learning Python from scratch, covering everything from basic syntax to building web APIs and working with databases.

    76.4K
  2. #2 · LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets

    awesome-cheatsheets

    A curated collection of cheatsheets covering popular programming languages, frameworks, databases, and development tools, each condensed into a single reference file.

    46.6K
  3. #3 · chatwoot/chatwoot

    chatwoot

    Chatwoot is an open-source, self-hosted customer support platform that unifies live chat, email, and social channels (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Line, SMS) into one inbox, positioned as an alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, and Salesforce Service Cloud.

    37.9K
  1. 4

    dokku

    32.2Kdokku/dokku · Go

    Dokku is a Docker-powered PaaS (Platform as a Service) - a self-hosted, minimal Heroku alternative that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications on your own server.

  2. 5

    js-stack-from-scratch

    20.1Kverekia/js-stack-from-scratch · JavaScript

    A step-by-step tutorial that assembles a modern JavaScript web app stack from scratch — from Node and Yarn through React, Redux, and server-side rendering up to deploying on Heroku.

  3. 6

    node-lessons

    16.4Kalsotang/node-lessons · JavaScript

    A free, hands-on Node.js course (titled 'Node.js 包教不包会' — roughly 'Node.js: Taught, Not Guaranteed') by alsotang, built as a series of practical lessons rather than a textbook.

  4. 7

    N-blog

    15.4Knswbmw/N-blog · JavaScript

    N-blog is a Chinese-language course called '一起学 Node.js' (Learn Node.js Together) that teaches Node.js backend development by walking through building a multi-user blog with Express and MongoDB.

  5. 8

    caprover

    15.2Kcaprover/caprover · TypeScript

    CapRover is a self-hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that lets you deploy and manage web apps, APIs, and databases on your own server without manually configuring Docker or nginx.

  6. 9

    cookiecutter-django

    13.6Kcookiecutter/cookiecutter-django · Python

    Cookiecutter Django is a project template that generates a production-ready Django project skeleton, pre-wired with common tools like Celery, Docker, email providers, Sentry, and CI config, so you don't start from a blank repo.

  7. 10

    react-redux-universal-hot-example

    12.1Kerikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example · JavaScript

    It's a 2015-era starter boilerplate for building a universal (server + client rendered) JavaScript webapp using React, Redux, Express, and Webpack. The README now flags it as outdated and kept only as a historical reference, not for production use.

  8. 11

    medis

    11.7Kluin/medis · JavaScript

    Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use desktop app for managing Redis databases, built with Electron, React, and Redux.

  9. 12

    whoogle-search

    11.6Kbenbusby/whoogle-search · Python

    Whoogle was a self-hosted metasearch engine that fetched Google search results and stripped out ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, and IP tracking. As of July 2026 it is officially dead: Google closed off the last way to fetch results without JavaScript, so the app no longer returns any search results.

  10. 13

    sharedrop

    10.8KShareDropio/sharedrop · JavaScript

    ShareDrop is a web app for sending files directly between devices over WebRTC, inspired by Apple's AirDrop, without ever uploading them to a server.

  11. 14

    webui-aria2

    10.4Kziahamza/webui-aria2 · JavaScript

    A browser-based dashboard for aria2, the command-line file downloader, so you can manage your downloads from a web UI instead of the terminal.

  12. 15

    hivepaas

    305hivepaas/hivepaas · Go

    HivePaaS is a lightweight, self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service built on Docker Swarm, meant as a resource-efficient alternative to Heroku, Render, and Coolify for deploying apps on your own servers.

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