If you follow the "how to run it on Heroku" section in the README here: https://github.com/typesafehub/webwords/tree/heroku-devcenter/ https://github.com/typesa

If you follow the "how to run it on Heroku" section in the README here: https://github.com/typesafehub/webwords/tree/heroku-devcenter/ https://github.com/typesafehub/webwords/tree/heroku-devcente... then you would get something like this running app here: http://webwords.herokuapp.com/ http://webwords.herokuapp.com/ That's pretty much what it does ;-) Some people call this a "Platform-as-a-Service" or PaaS.