Developer tools and infrastructure
Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra
Tools that help developers deploy, host and manage apps and servers — Heroku/Vercel-style PaaS on their own VPS or cloud, cloud dev machines, backend generators, plus assorted API testing and local dev utilities.
Built for: Indie developers and small dev teams
Projects since May 04
246
Different builders
231
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+19%
AI is the core
7.3%
Projects per week
Mostly developer tool or library (35%), web app (27%), desktop app (12%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Octri.dev — Generates customizable API documentation, SDKs in 10 languages, and MCP servers, with optional monitoring and uptime tracking.“Octri.dev is live on ProductHunt today after 3 years of building it!”
- Voult — Provides a hosted authentication API for Node.js applications.“High school student here. I made a 1 minute video of the projects I'm building, including an auth platform for Node.js”
- findfreeapi — Lists free public APIs with visible rate limits and a filter for endpoints that need no auth.“I checked ~500 "free" public APIs to see how many are actually working in 2024. Here is what I found.”
- Stresix — Runs a load test of a user's app on dedicated servers and reports whether the server can handle the traffic, with per-core CPU and memory.“I built a load tester that tells you if your server is actually enough (no k6 scripts, ~10 min, real servers)”
- InfraSim — Lets players build cloud system designs from load balancers, caches, databases and queues, then simulates traffic to reveal failures.“I made a mobile game where you design cloud systems and watch them break. Got my first paying user today.”
- shtbase — Provides a hosted backend with database, auth, storage and functions running on low-cost VPS infrastructure.“Shtbase”
- Vecta — Orchestrates Restic backups on Linux servers via a pull-based agent and a dashboard that reports job status, metrics, and failure emails.“I spent my summer building an unbloated backup orchestrator for Linux servers (wrapping Restic)”
- Shortspan — Brokers access to secrets, SSH servers, databases, AWS and Kubernetes so users request short-lived, logged credentials instead of holding them.“I built a credential broker so nobody on the team holds prod keys. Would love brutal feedback on whether this makes sense”
- Kubernetes & Docker Production Debugging Swipe File — Provides a 50-item quick-reference runbook of common Kubernetes and Docker production errors and fixes.“I’m not a developer, but I built a DevOps debugging swipe file as a micro-product experiment”
- FERRUM — Deploys apps from GitHub to a self-managed Ubuntu VPS with HTTPS, PostgreSQL, logs and rollbacks.“I built FERRUM to deploy apps from GitHub to my own VPS”
- OLS (Open Local Server) — Runs local websites with automatic .test domains, trusted HTTPS, per-site web servers and PHP versions, and one-click installs of common dev services.“After 6 years on Laragon, I built my own free, open-source local dev environment: OLS”
- Docklane — Handles backups, updates, SSL, monitoring and recovery for self-hosted tools running on a user's own servers.“I asked SaaS founders when self-hosting stops being worth it. The answers changed what I’m building”
- Infrastry — Deploys user-submitted apps and keeps them online, handling configuration and scaling automatically.“Infrastry - Deploy your apps effortlessly and free for 3 months!”
- Flagsweep — Gives feature flags stored in Azure App Configuration owners, retire-by dates, a per-environment view, and an audit log of changes.“I built a free, open source tool to keep feature flags under control on Azure”
- P'adentro — Provides self-hosted authentication that multiple APIs can delegate to, issuing scoped, short-lived signed tokens that each API verifies locally.“I’m building a self-hosted auth service for multiple APIs. Where would it fall short?”
- Orkera — Deploys apps built by coding agents to public URLs by building them from a Dockerfile and hosting them.“I built a tool that lets Claude Code or Codex deploy the app it just built”
- Real DevOps Lab — Provides a hands-on lab where learners run an app, containerize it with Docker, build CI/CD, deploy to Linux, and troubleshoot simulated incidents.“I built a free hands-on DevOps lab instead of another tutorial course”
- Keygate — Issues and verifies API keys, enforcing rate limits and usage quotas, as a self-hosted proxy or internal verification service.“Built a small self-hosted API key manager because I hated rolling auth logic into my app DB”
- virtual box — Provides a virtual box whose exact function the post does not describe.“hi guys i made a virtuall box what shuld it add to it ?”
- Nodyra — Runs self-hosted workflow automations where each node is a Python script, built visually or via an AI agent over MCP.“Nodyra: self-hosted Python workflows with a visual editor, MCP, and Docker workers”
Most discussed
- Dave — Deploys open source apps from a one-click catalog and uses an AI agent to monitor, debug, and deploy apps not in the catalog.“I'm looking for my first user. Can it be you?”
- public-apis-live — Aggregates thousands of public APIs into one searchable directory and checks daily which links are still alive and returning data.“Here is basically every public api you will ever need, and the dead ones are filtered out”
- Provides a freemium tool for developers, with a paid premium tier unlocked during onboarding.“I launched my freemium SaaS back in 2013. Here are the Monthly Active Users by year. [OC]”
- BaaSForge — Generates a backend's architecture from a plain-language description of schema, auth and endpoints, and deploys it to staging and production.“18 months ago we weren't sure it was possible. Today we launched it.”
- DeployCrate — Provides an infrastructure product currently offered through an alpha access program.“Landing page feedback”
- Generates, stores, rotates and retires Docker Swarm secrets using SOPS and AGE encryption, with optional Azure Key Vault backup and bootstrap.“i didn't mean to - i just ended up creating a key-manager to store my docker swarm secrets in azure key vault”
- Reads a codebase, auto-detects its stack, and launches it locally or remotely with one command, and generates and runs end-to-end tests from source in isolated sandboxes.“Built a CLI that reads any codebase and launches it with one command. Now I'm trying to figure out if this is actually worth building further”
- Labby — Shows live status for self-hosted homelab services on one dashboard and lets users control them, such as starting containers or pausing torrents.“Labby. The homelab dashboard between Glance and Homarr”
- The Deployer — Analyzes a GitHub repository, proposes deployment options with cost estimates, and deploys the app into the user's own AWS, GCP, Azure or DigitalOcean account.“Building an app has become easy. Deploying it properly is still painful. So I built something for that.”
- DooCloud — Generates a live backend API from a written schema, with no Docker, auth setup, or manual deployment.“did I build something nobody needs?”