Navegante
Making cloud deployments easier for everyone
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Making cloud deployments easier for everyone
51 followers
Navegante is the easiest cloud deployment platform for software creators of all skill levels. Deploy any web app framework within minutes. Intentionally designed to make deploying to the cloud as pain-free as possible.
Navegante
Hello, Product Hunt! 👋🏼
Remember when deploying your ideas to the Web used to be as simple as uploading your website to your server? Deployments just worked. Somewhere along the way, we traded that simplicity for complexity that requires certifications just to feel confident.
I'm Richard, co-founder and chief designer of Navegante, and I'm excited to announce our attempt at making cloud deployments easier for everyone.
What's Navegante? 🛳
Navegante is the easiest cloud deployment platform for software creators of all skill levels. We provide a powerful, flexible, but most importantly stress-free deployment experience. No more learning the minutiae of cloud infrastructure just to ship your ideas to the Internet.
Why are you building Navegante when tons of PaaS options are already out there? 🌐
Somewhere along the way, we traded simplicity for "enterprise-grade" complexity. Now you need cloud certifications just to host a blog. AWS and GCP require either endless documentation parsing or formal training to operate with confidence. Platform wrappers charge 10x markups for a pretty UI over the same infrastructure. And every deployment feels like defusing a bomb - one wrong config and you're hit with bill shock.
With all the innovations in software development in the past 10 years, it baffles us why cloud deployments remain so esoteric and archaic. While other platforms invest in enterprise features and sales teams, we've invested in design and UX research. Every interaction in Navegante is crafted to reduce cognitive load and make deployments feel effortless, not anxiety-inducing.
Navegante is our take on how the modern cloud deployment experience should be: simple to understand for newbies, but progressively powerful and flexible enough for even the most complex cloud setup.
What's included in the launch version of Navegante? 📅
GitHub Deploy: Connect repo → add env vars → deploy. That's it.
Human-Readable Monitoring: CPU, RAM, disk, and logs without touching the terminal
Team Access: Invite unlimited members/viewers on all plans
Any Framework: Rails, Next.js, Django, Laravel - if it runs, we deploy it
Fixed Pricing: Unlimited apps per plan. Deploy until your resources run out
Free Domain: Every project gets a free navegante.app domain included
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We're here to answer questions and would love to hear about your deployment horror stories. What's the most frustrating part of your current deployment setup? Let's fix it together.
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@richardparayno Congrats Richard, love the focus on simplicity. How do you see Navegante differentiating long term, more as a Heroku-like dev experience layer, or as a full PaaS competitor to AWS/GCP?
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@tonyabracadabra great question!
Our overall vision for Navegante is to become the PaaS for every software creator. A platform where infrastructure complexity disappears completely, regardless of your scale or stack.
Right now, we're focusing on improving the deployment experience for traditional web apps, building upon what we think can be improved in platforms like Heroku. We want every developer to ship code without thinking about the underlying infrastructure.
Long term, we're working to eliminate infrastructure complexity altogether. For example, one of the things we want to tackle post-launch is making complex setups like high-availability Kubernetes clusters as simple as deploying a basic app. Whether you need serverless functions, containerized microservices, or traditional servers, you shouldn't have to care about the implementation details. Just tell us what you want to achieve, and we'll handle how it happens.
The key difference is we're not just going to be creating prettier UI over cloud primitives. We're building abstractions that make infrastructure decisions irrelevant to software creators. Teams should be thinking about their product, not their infrastructure.
So to answer your question directly: We see ourselves becoming the PaaS that scales with you indefinitely. You'll never need to do "the dirty work" of managing your cloud, and if you have DevOps experts on your team, they'll actually become more effective using Navegante. It's simple enough for beginners to deploy their first app, yet powerful and flexible enough that directors of engineering can build complex cloud infrastructure.