Show HN: Codemason – Deploy and host your apps without the hassle

This looks promising.... but you really should explain the tech stack behind it so that people have confidence in your system ....

Also, an explainer and demo video would be very useful to understand the product.

Ben, this looks like a great tool - you're doing an awesome job, keep up the good work.

Question for you: The benefits of using this as a private-Heroku-on-public cloud are obvious, but in the nicest way possible, why would/should I consider Codemason hosting over a large AWS tier provider?

I came here to say that I am a very happy customer of Codemason. Ben is incredible and helped me a LOT with his support through Slack.

I have finished building an MVP for my web app and was considering alternatives to host it. My biggest struggle was how to set up a proper CI/CD flow. Consider that I have pretty much zero knowledge about devops.

I asked for help on the Indie Hackers forum and Ben contacted me. It was like a God-sent gift. Now I am days away of launching my own, properly deployed, web app :)

Couldn't recommend this service more!

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate the encouragement

My big focus for Codemason is simplicity, so building hosting into Codemason ("Codemason Servers") was a way to simplify things even further - just click a button and a server is ready to run your app. In the future, I hope to take it even further and let people spin up "sandbox" versions of apps so they can test things out really quickly. Convenience and simplicity is probably the key draw there.

Just as a general comment on the entire space: It's very competitive and there are plenty of solid options but I feel like there's a couple of things that uniquely set Codemason apart:

- Being able to "cluster" servers from multiple cloud providers easily - Autoscaling capabilities on the cloud provider of your choice (e.g. DigitalOcean or Vultr) - A focus on simplifying things from development to production

As the product matures, I'm hoping the focus on simplicity will pay off in differentiating Codemason in an already competitive market