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!
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@realjakecooper Looks like a really handful tool for developers. Congratulations on your launch.
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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
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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I started using Railway months ago and I must say this platform is the best i've used. Really simple to use and it works very well!
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Amazing product for quickly provisioning infra & great team that ships crazy fast! Especially love the starter projects for getting up and running with something in a few clicks
I’m a pretty lame developer. Self taught, not a SWE by trade. So the infrastructure stuff in app development always makes my head spin. Those days are over with Railway 🤘🏼 It’s dramatically lowered the barrier for spinning up new personal projects. Game changer
Huge fan of Railway :)
We use it to power our blog at Slip and it was so painless that it was almost frustrating. Frustrating because the UI/UX is so damn good and I just want to spend time in the Railway product. But it's so easy to deploy that I only got to spend a handful of minutes with it.
That being said, you can tell it's an app for developers built by developers that care. Great work team.
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Love the simplicity and user empathy while getting things deployed (e.g. CMD-K > Generate a secret). Paradise for an enthusiast self-hoster of apps.
I keep looking forward to the weekly changelogs.
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