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> The next step in open and free software will be making coding, forking and deploying apps as easy as editing Wikipedia.

Github?




Even better: Github + Heroku Button (or similar but more open)

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/7/heroku-button


Dokku?


I've been waiting for this for literally a decade! Before that, it used to be true on desktop platforms like Windows and Linux - not so on the web and for apps.

There have been many attempts. Things like http://sandstorm.io/ are the latest attempts to try and change this.


> A closed-source integration service is not an open platform.

I believe that Github is exactly what the OP is complaining about.




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