PaaS for deploying apps in Ruby, Node, Python, Java, and other languages (owned by Salesforce).
Found via: Product Hunt 83 · Hacker News 15 · PeerPush 15 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 13 · StackScope Wider Web 30
Heroku has been detected on 113 launches we've crawled, with 15 of those in July 2026 (0.1% of the month's launches so far). The 7-day rolling share is 0.1%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: Carnet, yesterday.
It's most commonly paired with Google Search Console, Google Fonts, and Google Analytics. By product type, the launches using it are most often AI (17%), Marketing (14%), and Developer Tools (12%). By estimated origin, most come from the United States (58%). By domain ending, launches using it are 1.5 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .com domain. The 113 scored launches using Heroku average a StackScope score of 6.7 out of 10, against 6.3 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with Heroku
81 launches
Countries that use Heroku
Estimated origin for 48 of 113 launches
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United States 58.33%
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United Kingdom 12.50%
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Germany 4.17%
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India 4.17%
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Poland 4.17%
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Albania 2.08%
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Canada 2.08%
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Switzerland 2.08%
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China 2.08%
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Cyprus 2.08%
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Japan 2.08%
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Romania 2.08%
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Singapore 2.08%
Share of new launches using Heroku
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average.
How StackScope detects technologies
⋮ Jul 1, 2026: Adoption figures now count launches from launch platforms. Use the source view to include StackScope Discovery.
Hosting leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
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32.34% | 54.07% |
| #2 | – |
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6.75% | 11.29% |
| #3 | – |
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4.69% | 7.84% |
| #4 | – |
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3.64% | 6.08% |
| #5 | – |
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2.35% | 3.93% |
| … | ||||
| #19 | – |
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0.18% | 0.30% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Hosting tool.The most common alternatives to Heroku among indie launches are Vercel and Hostinger. All 256 in Hosting →
Highest-scoring launches using Heroku
The top launches by StackScope score among the 113 we've detected using Heroku.
Most recent of 113 launches using Heroku
Carnet
Carpoolio
CodeMaya
AI
Stell-R
Social
Inkling
Hiring & HR
Terminal view of news and current events for cities across the globe
WhatsTeam
Remember
nxt
DeliveryCompass
Developer Tools
Magic Bookshelf - AI kids stories
SimpleTradeLog
Finance
Showing the most recent 12 of 113.