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Appliku is the managed Heroku alternative for teams that want to own their infrastructure.
Deploy Django, Python, Rails, and Node apps to a server you own, on any cloud, with the same push-to-deploy workflow you'd get from a hosted platform.
Connect a GitHub or GitLab repo and Appliku handles the rest: Docker builds, Nginx, automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt, managed PostgreSQL and Redis, and background workers (Celery). Every git push ships with zero-downtime restarts.
Split Fee is a platform for UK recruitment agencies to collaborate on permanent placements.
Every agency has candidates they can't place and vacancies they can't fill. Another agency almost certainly has what you need โ but finding them, trusting them, and making the collaboration work has always been the hard part.
Split Fee solves this. Post your candidates and vacancies to the platform. Our matching algorithm finds opportunities across every agency on the network โ by skills, location, salary, and seniority. Candidate and client data stays anonymised until both sides agree to work together. When a placement is made, we handle the fee split and invoicing automatically.
No more posting in social media groups and hoping someone replies. No more sharing candidate details with strangers on trust alone. No more chasing invoices from agencies you barely know.
45% for you. 45% for them. 10% platform fee โ only when a placement is made.
Half of a placement fee is infinitely better than none of it.
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Appliku's answer
Against hosted platforms like Heroku, Render, Fly.io, and Railway, you keep control of cost and avoid lock-in because you own the server and pay your cloud provider directly, and your apps stay always on with no cold starts. Against self-hosted open-source tools like Coolify, Dokku, and Kamal, Appliku manages the platform and the server for you, so patching, backups, and deploys never become your job, and there is no control panel of ours running on your server. Support is direct and fast, often from the founder, and on any paid plan we migrate your first app live.
Split Fee's answer:
Most "split fee networks" are just directories or social groups where agencies post and hope someone responds. Split Fee is an actual matching engine. It scores candidate-vacancy pairs, handles the legal agreements (non-circumvention, self-billing), automates invoicing and fee splits, and manages the entire placement lifecycle from match to payment. Everything that normally requires trust, phone calls, and spreadsheets is handled by the platform.
Appliku's answer
Appliku gives you the Heroku experience, git push to deploy, managed databases, automatic SSL, on a server you own instead of a platform you rent. You bring your own cloud account (DigitalOcean, AWS, Hetzner, or any VPS) and Appliku fully manages that server for you: setup, updates, and keeping it healthy. You get hosted-platform convenience without the hosted-platform cost, the lock-in, or the job of managing servers yourself.
Split Fee's answer:
Split Fee is the first purpose-built platform for split fee recruitment in the UK. Instead of relying on LinkedIn groups, WhatsApp messages, and manual agreements, agencies upload their candidates and vacancies and the platform automatically matches them across agencies.
Candidate identities are revealed gradually; anonymised at first, then progressively disclosed as both sides accept, so agencies can collaborate without the risk of circumvention.
Appliku's answer
Django and Python teams, agencies, and technical founders who want to deploy and run web apps on servers they own without managing those servers themselves. It ranges from solo developers and early-stage startups to small and mid-size engineering teams, and it is an especially strong fit for teams leaving Heroku who want the same push-to-deploy workflow at a lower cost. FastAPI, Rails, and Next.js are supported too.
Split Fee's answer:
UK recruitment agencies; from boutique firms with a handful of consultants to mid-sized agencies with specialist sector coverage. Any agency that has either strong candidates without the right vacancies, or client vacancies they can't fill from their own candidate pool. Split Fee turns those dormant assets into placements.
Appliku's answer
Appliku started in 2019 to solve a problem its founder kept running into: developers love how easy Heroku makes deployment but dislike the cost and the lock-in, while going the do-it-yourself route on a raw VPS means taking on server management they never wanted. Appliku bridges the two: the push-to-deploy simplicity of a hosted platform, on infrastructure you own and control, with the servers fully managed for you.
Split Fee's answer:
Abbie, our founder, knew that although split fee arrangements have existed in recruitment for decades, the process has always been manual: find a partner agency, negotiate terms, trust them with your candidate data, chase invoices. Most agencies avoid it because the overhead and risk outweigh the reward. Abbie built Split Fee to remove that friction entirely, with automated matching, progressive identity disclosure, built-in legal agreements, and automated billing, making split placements as straightforward as direct ones.
Appliku's answer
Appliku is built with Python and Django, using Django REST Framework for its API and Celery for background and scheduled tasks, backed by PostgreSQL and Redis. It runs in Docker on Linux. Appliku deploys and hosts itself using Appliku, on a server we own, so the platform runs on exactly the same stack and workflow we give our customers.
Split Fee's answer:
A next-generation serverless platform, built for AWS.
Makes it easy to deploy without binding you to some start-up-company servers. All hosted on Amazon in my case.
Based on our record, Appliku seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 54 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Unfortunately, this is the main downside of choosing Django over other options targeted at personal websites. With Blaze.horse, Iโve tried to set you up for an easy time, but itโs still fiddlier than it ought to be. There are some up-and-coming projects that give me hope, such as Button and Appliku, but Iโm personally happy with Fly for now. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
Also you can watch logs for current processes without logging into SSH. Check it out: https://appliku.com. Source: over 2 years ago
I'm using https://appliku.com/ for my deployments. They have a free tier and it set's up everything for you but you need to be using docker. Source: about 3 years ago
For 4 years I am grinding on making the best deployment tool for python/Django apps. Still excited about it :) https://appliku.com. Source: about 3 years ago
We at https://appliku.com went with NextJS + DRF (drf-spectacular, open api codegen) and it is amazing. Source: about 3 years ago
Coolify - An open-source, hassle-free, self-hostable Heroku & Netlify alternative.
Unbench - Beyond recruitment, Unbench became a dynamic matchmaking platform, efficiently connecting companies with top specialists.
DigitalOcean - Simplifying cloud hosting. Deploy an SSD cloud server in 55 seconds.
Zeabur - Deploy painlessly and scale infinitely with just one click
Netlify - Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic delpoys from GitHub or Bitbucket
Flightcontrol.dev - Heroku is too limiting and expensive.