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Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting

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Re: Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting

#2
Hey HN,

We recently finished our firecracker-based webapp hosting platform.

It's like if Vercel and Docker had a baby: You write VM configurations in a language that looks like a Dockerfile, and every commit creates a preview environment which can be "promoted" to a production site.

Here's an example configuration:

``` FROM vm/ubuntu:18.04 RUN curl -fSsL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash RUN apt-get install nodejs COPY . . RUN npm install RUN npm run build RUN BACKGROUND npm run start EXPOSE WEBSITE localhost:3000 ```

This product combines our firecracker-based hypervisor (200ms cold starts) with a global CDN written in Go (using Caddy for TLS termination)

We can offer everything for free because we charge for the DevOps side (CI/CD & preview environments) - we have no intention of getting users and then upselling people for hosting.

We're obviously very excited about this launch, and would love to hear your feedback.

Re: Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting

#5

Hey HN, We recently finished our firecracker-based webapp hosting platform. It's like if Vercel and Docker had a baby: You write VM configurations in a language that looks like a Dockerfile, and every commit creates a preview environment which can be "promoted" to a production site. Here's an example configuration: ``` FROM vm/ubuntu:18.04 RUN curl -fSsL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash RUN apt-ge…

What are the limitations of the free hosting? Surely I can’t deploy once and scale infinitely without paying you, right?

Re: Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting

#6
Your Docs [0] and Examples[1] page, or many [2] other page in the footer for that matter, return a blank page?

[0] https://webapp.io/docs/main

[1] https://webapp.io/docs/examples

[2] https://webapp.io/docs/integrations

Firefox, latest version, no ad blocker enabled. After nosing around in your source a bit, it seems the redirect to https://docs.webapp.io doesn't work for me?

Re: Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting

#10

Hey HN, We recently finished our firecracker-based webapp hosting platform. It's like if Vercel and Docker had a baby: You write VM configurations in a language that looks like a Dockerfile, and every commit creates a preview environment which can be "promoted" to a production site. Here's an example configuration: ``` FROM vm/ubuntu:18.04 RUN curl -fSsL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash RUN apt-ge…

Vercel aka Zeit originally hosted Docker containers.
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