Flynn Alternatives for PaaS

Dokku is a free and open-source project that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications. With Dokku developers can setup their own PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) in a matter of minutes. Dokku provides extra plugins which can be used to manage database, and tools needed for your application. If you need to server your application over HTTPS, Dokku got you covered as well, with the help of Let's Encrypts free TLS certificates.

M3O is a new cloud platform for quick and easy micro services development. With M3O your application can go from source to running and beyond in just ten commands. Write services locally, run them in the cloud, without the hassle of managing the infrastructure.

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) built especially for applications developers. When Heroku first launched in 2007 it was a platform dedicated to deploy and host Ruby applications. Today the offering has broadened and allows developers to launch applications for most languages, frameworks and technologies in a matter of minutes with the help of Heroku Buildpacks. There are currently over 5,400 Heroku Buildpacks in the Heroku Elements Marketplace, that can be used by developers to speed up deployment and saftley host their applications online.

With DigitalOcean App Platform you can build, deploy, and scale apps quickly using a simple, fully managed solution. Deploy code by simply pointing to a GitHub repo and let App Platform do the heavy lifting of managing the infrastructure, app runtimes and dependencies. 

As a mobile or front-end web developer, the complicated task of building and structuring a backend can be a daunting task. AWS Amplify is a tool built by Amazon as an end-to-end solution for building and deploying secure, scalable full stack applications, and ease that burden. With the Amplify CLI, you get a guided workflow to set up best-in-class backends for authentication, storage, APIs. With Amplify Libraries, you can connect your application with current technologies such as Android, iOS, React, Flutter, Amazon Cognito, Amazon S3 and AI/ML. And when it is time to ship, the Amplify Console got can help you to deploy and host scalable static websites and single page web apps with a Git-based workflow.