One thing @realjakecooper didn't point out, which absolutely blows my mind, is that there are no different tiers for postgres, redis, etc hosted on Railway.
You just start using these databases, and they expand/scale _automatically_ as you start using more resources. Any backend hacker knows that this is legit the holy grail of managed services -- AWS doesn't offer it, Heroku doesn't offer it, but in Railway it just works 🤯
Cannot express the amount of hassle/time this saves you if you're a developer who just wants to stay focused on building the actual product, not scaling infrastructure.
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I am using Railway for a few of my projects, it is amazing!
Once you try, there is no going back :D
Railway has been an essential part of my weekend idea build outs, I can just build instead of spend 3 hours of it in an AWS console.
If I started a company today, I honestly can't think of why I'd use anything else.
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I am using railway since 2-3 months. Deploying projects on it is very simple and their support is also very good and supportive. You must give it a try.
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Have been using Railway for a couple of months now for a project I am building and love the simplicity it brings to deployments. I just push my code to specific branches and it takes care of the environments, etc. Having Mongo and other DBs in the same package is a huge plus as well.
Before this, I used to deploy either on Serverless on AWS or EC2 instances and the entire deployment lifecycle used to be a pain.
Kudos to ?makers and team for putting out a great product! More power to you!
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Been wanting something like this forever. Congrats on the launch!
I've been a long-time user of Railway and I have to say that it's probably one of the most intuitive and easy-to-use products for deploying anything from a Postgres DB to a Flask app.
Its deep integration with Vercel (where I deploy all of my Next.js apps) also allows you to create a Postgres DB for your app in less than 10 seconds, which is mind-blowingly fast!! 🤯
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