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GCI, Fly.io like deployments with any VM

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I've been a big fan of fly.io with it’s devx, but cold starts and pricing have been a consistent problem. Even for side projects it's painful if they take 30s to load, it just kills the whole experience.With coding agents becoming good, there were a lot more things I started building, and I just wanted to run all of those things!GCI was built to solve this. It’s just a CLI, just uses ssh to interact with your target machine, and relies on docker swarm to get your services running (docker swarm is IMO underrated, providing benefits even with a single node).It can deploy on any machine that can be ssh’d into and runs docker.GCI provides the missing devx gap between docker swarm and fly.io. Building images locally, getting them onto the target machine, fetching logs, managing different servers, …Check it out on github, or for more in-depth docs at https://gci.jonas.foo/

HN · launched Mar 8, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 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 CLI to deploy apps to remote VMs can be vibecoded, but coordinating seamless zero-downtime routing, proxying, process management, and container execution across heterogeneous VMs requires solid DevOps and systems networking work.

What it would actually take: The system requires an agent or SSH-based deployer on VMs, combined with an orchestration runner (like Docker or containerd) and a dynamic reverse proxy (e.g., Traefik, Caddy, or a custom Envoy/Rust proxy) for traffic routing and SSL termination. The hardest pieces are robust health checking, atomic zero-downtime container swaps, and handling network partitions across remote VMs. It requires strong DevOps/SRE skills and network engineering.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: uncloud

Concerns raised: No daemon architecture, relies on Docker Swarm

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 219 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #203 of 220 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 129 days after the earliest competitor.

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