Thoughts on an open source deployment platform?

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tomhaerter · 11h ago

Hi HN! I've been working on Zeitwork, an open source deployment platform that lets you deploy any application with one-click simplicity without the typical constraints of existing platforms. I got frustrated with how platforms like Vercel and Netlify are amazing but force you to refactor your app to fit their constraints, while traditional cloud providers give unlimited flexibility but require infrastructure expertise. My idea is to let you deploy anything that can run in a container with Git-based deployments, automatic framework detection, and scaling that handles the complexity while keeping the developer experience simple. The goal is making deployment infrastructure accessible to everyone through open source. I'm curious what the HN community thinks about this approach - do these deployment pain points resonate with you? Would you be interested in using or contributing to something like this? Any tips on what features would be most valuable or what would make it most useful for developers?

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Thoughts on an open source deployment platform?

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