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Solutions · For indie hackers

Heroku for the 2026 stack.

Push to deploy. Free Postgres. Free Redis. Free observability. Run a real SaaS on a real cloud for the price of a coffee subscription, then scale up the same tiers as revenue lands.

No add-on bills for
observabilitySSL certsCDNlog retentionmetricsalertsaudit logdatabase backupsDDoS protection
starship · this month
month-to-date
webcompute · nano
0.10 vCPU · 256 MB
$5.00
main-dbpostgres · nano
1 GB · scale-to-zero
$0.00free
cacheredis · shared
64 MB · multi-tenant
$0.00free
docsstatic
global edge cache
$0.00free
domainconnected · SSL
auto-renewed
$0.00free
egress14.2 GB of 100 free
within free tier
$0.00free
Total · this month
projected · 5 services running
$5.00
starter credit applied · $0.00 charged
The math

From side project to real revenue.

Three honest stages. Same platform, same primitives, no migration. The bill grows with usage, not with arbitrary feature gates.

Side project

Idea phase, pre-launch

$0/ month
covered by starter credit
  • Nano compute$5 / mo
  • Postgres Nanofree
  • Redis sharedfree
  • Static + CDNfree

Real product

most pick this

Launched, getting first paid users

$24/ month
production-grade tier
  • Small compute$16 / mo
  • Postgres Nanofree
  • Redis Starter$3 / mo
  • Static docs sitefree
  • Bandwidthfree up to 100 GB
  • Connected domainfree

Real revenue

Hundreds of paying users, real load

$84/ month
scaled tier, same platform
  • Medium compute × 2$64 / mo
  • Postgres Small$16 / mo
  • Redis Starter$3 / mo
  • Static + CDNfree
  • Custom domainfree
Production tools

Everything else is included.

Twelve features other platforms charge separately for. Live when your project goes live. Every plan, every project, no upgrade required.

Live logs
streamed to your dashboard
Per-service metrics
CPU, memory, p50/p95, requests
Smart alerts
crash loops, disk full, low credit
Daily database backups
encrypted, 30 days retained
Free SSL
auto-renewed before expiry
Global CDN
100+ edge cities, NA + EU
Custom domains
unlimited, no per-domain fee
Audit log
every admin action, append-only
Auto-wired services
env vars flow on every deploy
Cost meter
live spend, per service
One-click rollback
every deploy, no rebuild
Email notifications
plain English, with what to do
The scale path

Resize as you grow. No migration.

The same platform takes you from prototype to production. Click to bump a tier, zero-downtime. No replatforming, no data export, no procurement call.

Day 1
$5 / mo
Compute Nano · Postgres Nano
Idea phase. Free Postgres handles dev + early users.
Month 3
$24 / mo
Compute Small · Redis Starter
First paid users. Bumped compute, added Redis.
Month 12
$84 / mo
Compute Medium × 2 · Postgres Small
Real load. Two compute copies, Postgres tier up.
Year 2
$300+ / mo
Compute Large · Postgres Medium · Redis dedicated
Sustained traffic. Proper production posture.
the math

$5 free. Run a real SaaS for the price of coffee.

Sign up, get $5 in starter credit. The Nano compute tier costs $5 a month, so the first month runs on the house. Free Postgres and Redis sit underneath, included on every account.

$5 credit
≈ 1 month
of Compute Nano running 24/7
Postgres
$0 / mo
Nano · 1 GB · scale-to-zero
Redis
$0 / mo
shared · 64 MB · 10k ops/day

Stop paying the DevOps tax.

Push code, get a URL, watch the bill stay tiny while you find product-market fit.