diff --git a/localrequirements.txt b/localrequirements.txt
index 6910097..3682797 100644
--- a/localrequirements.txt
+++ b/localrequirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Django==1.4.1
 South==0.7.6
 argparse==1.2.1
 dj-database-url==0.2.1
-django-heroku-memcacheify==0.3
 django-social-auth==0.7.4
 httplib2==0.7.4
 oauth2==1.5.211
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e8d0ae5..990bb3d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 django-pylibmc-sasl==0.2.4
 gunicorn==0.14.6
+django-heroku-memcacheify==0.3
 pylibmc==1.2.3
 -r localrequirements.txt
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 6c7a5b6..0613f02 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -91,9 +91,16 @@ assert 'GITHUB_APP_SECRET' in os.environ, "Set GITHUB_APP_SECRET in your .env fi
 GITHUB_APP_ID = os.environ['GITHUB_APP_ID']
 GITHUB_API_SECRET = os.environ['GITHUB_APP_SECRET']
 
-from memcacheify import memcacheify
-
-CACHES = memcacheify()
+try:
+    from memcacheify import memcacheify
+    CACHES = memcacheify()
+except ImportError:
+    CACHES = {
+        'default': {
+            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
+            'LOCATION': 'not-so-unique-snowflake',
+        }
+    }
 
 import dj_database_url