Hey HN,
After years of pain using platforms like Heroku, Render, Fly, and Railway, we decided to build our own. It’s called Miget, and it rethinks both the developer experience and the economics of deployment.
Most PaaS platforms tax you per app, per dyno, per background worker, per staging environment, etc. Or worse—usage-based billing that’s impossible to predict (hi Railway).
We flipped the model:
You choose a plan (with fixed CPU/RAM), deploy as many apps as you want inside it—frontend, backend, workers, databases-and that’s your bill. No surprises, no meter running in the background. Think VPS simplicity with modern PaaS DX.
Under the hood:
- Fair Scheduler based on CFS principles (like a smarter VPS)
- Kubernetes + microVMs (CloudHypervisor)
- Cloud Native Buildpacks or Docker builds
- Built-in IPv6, SSH, full API (coming soon)
- Transparent billing via Polar.sh
- Usage-based billing opt-in (coming soon)
Built for hackers, indie devs, startups building their MVPs or just tired of being nickel-and-dimed.
Clarification on the name: It’s Miget, pronounced like “widget.” Not “midget.” No relation, no offense intended-just a short, punchy name.
Would love your thoughts, feedback, roasting, or questions. Live now at https://miget.com
