I've been building https://canine.sh for the past year, which is an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc.
It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.
It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.
The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.
It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.
It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.
The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.