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Ask HN: Is there real demand for a open source Railway-style PaaS that deploys?

Hey all, I am building an open-source platform with railway-grade UX.

Nothing to show yet, but just validating the pain before I spend more weeks on it.

So some quick questions (especially if you’re in the SF Bay, Seattle, DC, London/Berlin/Amsterdam scene):

Have you ever seriously considered leaving

1.Railway/Render/Vercel/Heroku because of cost, lockin, or compliance?

2. What’s the single biggest reason you wouldn’t try a BYOC option tomorrow?

3. Rough pricing you’d tolerate for the control plane (e.g. $29–99/mo flat for unlimited apps + your own infra bill)?

4. Any feature that would make you go “okay I’m in” on day one?

I’d love blunt answers - even “this is pointless because X” is extremely useful right now. If you’re interested (drop a comment) + quick demo video when the first prototype is up. Happy to jump on a 15-min call too and offer the first month of free usage on the product(when mvp is ready).

Thanks for reading - really appreciate the time.

1 points theonlyvasudev 8 months ago 6 comments

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