Out Plane
A PaaS I built solo from Istanbul in 3 months
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Hey HN,I posted Out Plane here last week. Wanted to share an update because I've been shipping a lot.I started this because deploying side projects was killing my motivation. Build something fun over a weekend, then waste two days on Dockerfiles, nginx, and SSL. So I built what I wanted — connect GitHub, push code, get a URL. Done.Since December I've added managed PostgreSQL, managed Redis with RedisInsight built in, Dockerfile auto-detection that pre-fills your config, real-time metrics, and scale to zero — no traffic means no bill. Per-second pricing, not hourly. Same Next.js + Postgres app costs me $2.40/mo vs $12–47 on other platforms.No CLI yet, docs need work, ~200 users. Just me, no team, no funding. But people are running real stuff on it.$20 free credit, no credit card. I read all feedback personally — I'm the only one here.
HN · launched Feb 24, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 43%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud and application hosting platforms · 146 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial A web dashboard managing deployments is easy to prototype, but building a multi-tenant PaaS orchestrating containers, routing, SSL certificates, and security isolation is difficult.
What it would actually take: A reliable PaaS needs an orchestration layer (such as Nomad or lightweight Kubernetes) integrated with automated Git webhooks, dynamic Nixpacks/Buildpacks container builds, and an automated edge proxy (like Traefik or Caddy) handling wildcard DNS and Let's Encrypt certificates. The hard parts are secure container sandboxing, multi-tenant resource limits (cgroups/namespaces), and handling zero-downtime rolling deploys safely.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Neon tech serverless database, Dokku, Hetzner/OVH self-hosted solutions
Concerns raised: Cold start performance unclear, Claimed solo operation conflicts with enterprise support promises, Team size discrepancy between claims and LinkedIn profile
Feature requests: Scale to zero when idle, Monitoring and backups for self-hosted databases, Database restore functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 208 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 209 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 103 days after the earliest competitor.
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