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Railway — Config free deploys: bring your code, we'll handle the rest
Made for any language, for projects big and small. Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.
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I use Railway for couple of months now and everything’s amazing.
I love how easy it is to setup a Postgres db, a Redis instance, CI with GitHub and seamless integration with Prisma ❤️ (running migrations, setting up env variables)
Thank you Railway team!
One thing @realjakecooper didn't point out, which absolutely blows my mind, is that there are no different tiers for postgres, redis, etc hosted on Railway.
You just start using these databases, and they expand/scale _automatically_ as you start using more resources. Any backend hacker knows that this is legit the holy grail of managed services -- AWS doesn't offer it, Heroku doesn't offer it, but in Railway it just works 🤯
Cannot express the amount of hassle/time this saves you if you're a developer who just wants to stay focused on building the actual product, not scaling infrastructure.
I've been using Railway for a few weeks now, and it's amazing. Looking forward to seeing it grow, and hoping to see more clear PHP support, too. Right now, from what I can tell, it's only supported via Docker.
Happy Railway customer here.
Jake and the team have been super responsive and incredibly helpful getting our project set up on Railway.
We've slashed our heroku costs while getting an even better developer experience.
Railway is great. I use it for quickly spinning up databases. Usage based pricing and their approach to open source is also very innovative. Finally they have nailed the one click experience.
Railway.app is one of the products I would love to endorse. They almost reduced all major hurdles in making the web apps/APIs/DB apps.
The best feature about Railway is you can confidently and quickly deploy an app. Railway got everything you need to build a web app, python/node, postgress, redis.
I am able to make keyval.org (using Redis) in couple of hours using Railway.app
Thank you and goodluck.
Congrats @realjakecooper ! I've just started using Railway and am very impressed by it and I can see a bright future for it! Well done folks.
Hello Product Hunt,
I'm Jake Cooper, founder of Railway.
A year ago I got fed up with current tools for building and deploying software. Every time I wanted to hack on a project I found myself needing to spinup a Kube cluster, copy 100 lines of Terraform, and to claw my way through the AWS dashboard, just to get a Postgres instance and job queue deployed somewhere.
Building and deploying software has become far too complicated for even seasoned engineers. What if, instead of writing thousands of lines of yaml, you could simply express your intent to a program, and that program would convert that intent into the infrastructure required to host your code?
Over the past year, and with a handful of awesome people joining as we go, that's what we've built. Railway lets you instantly provision and deploy arbitrary software. Any language, any way, anywhere.
Not only that, but Railway follows the lifecycle of your application. Import your code or use a starter, then run your application using the Railway CLI to tap into cloned versions of your production infrastructure. Finally stage your changes with infra copies in PRs and view process logs directly in the dashboard once your changes have been deployed.
We're still early (very early frankly) but we're committed to making software drastically better. Let us know what you think!
@realjakecooper
Thanks Jake and team for building Railway. When you reached out to me a year ago I knew here’s an exciting piece of infrastructure in the making.
Since then I’ve been using it in various products and it’s fantastic for production applications as it is for prototyping.
Most of my code walks and deploys are using Railway. Here’s a look at Cal.com Inc open source deployment using Railway as a database:
https://youtu.be/TaIQhG8AL0w
Looking great! Just set up a ghost blog! Took 5s. One piece of feedback, it's surprisingly hard to find the link to the newly set up app :P
Railway has been an essential part of my weekend idea build outs, I can just build instead of spend 3 hours of it in an AWS console.
If I started a company today, I honestly can't think of why I'd use anything else.
@casperstr Oh no! Really sorry about that. I deployed that exact same bot just now and it went out without a hitch
Let me know if there’s anything I can personally do to help you out!
Yep. Railway's such a great bootstrapping tool, I included it in my Jamstack book. https://www.cutintothejamstack.com/
The Vercel integration is so easy I want to cry.
super interesting. can you share some the interesting concepts or projects that you seen leverage railway - that inspire you and team? or even some things you seen not go well b/c wrong assumptions
@jarenglover Yup! We've had people deploy, despite our focus on monoliths, a mesh network of a dozen or so microservices
We're really stoked with how the story around monoliths turned out, but there's a ton of stuff we've got tee'd up including automated mesh networks, tunnels, generalizable plugins, and improvements to our inhouse orchestrator to make that experience of scaling out your systems/services that much easier
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