alt Hacker NewsBeen building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh. Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging.
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imiric • yesterday at 5:21 PM
> Computing is getting cheaper
Heh.
Looks like a great product, although maybe mention some honest reasons to not use it, instead of the passive-aggressive marketing ones.
The docs seem to be non existent. Is the canine yaml documented?
You want docs like this:
https://coolify.io/docs/applications/ci-cd/github/setup-app
https://coolify.io/docs/applications/build-packs/dockerfile
https://coolify.io/docs/applications/build-packs/overview
Plenty of screenshots and exact step by step instructions. Throwing an "example git repo" with no documentation won't get you any users.
Put your shoes into that of a Heroku/Vercel user. DevOps is usually Somebody Else's Problem. They are not going to spend hours debugging kubernetes so if you want to sell them a PaaS built on Kubernetes, it has to be fool proof. Coolify is an excellent example, the underlying engineering is average at best (from a pure engineering point of view it's a very heavy app that suffers from frequent memory leaks, they have a new v5 rewrite but it's been stuck for 2 years) but the UI/UX has been polished very well.