Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Railway
Hacked together a service in Go https://github.com/xlab/cdn-s3-go that routes content request to any arbitrary S3-compatible bucket. Some infra providers are offering free egress, but buckets are only private (hello Railway), and not geo-distributed. An L4 balancer will cost a fortune (hello Cloudflare). cdn-s3-go solves this by looking up objects, generating a pre-signed URLs and redirecting the clients directly. Free egress, cheap public geo-distributed CDN!
Railway is a cloud platform that simplifies software deployment by requiring minimal configuration. It supports projects in any programming language, from small applications to larger systems, and automatically handles… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Railway launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security.
2021 · railway.app · its alternatives →
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Render▲318Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…
2019 · render.com · its alternatives →
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Trainn▲256A new way to create professional product walkthrough videos.
2021 · trainn.co · its alternatives →
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2016 · cloudrail.com · its alternatives →
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:cloud: Node module for delivering optimized, minified, mangled, gzipped assets with Express and Amazon's CDN (S3/CloudFront) - ladjs/express-cdn
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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deck.gl based visualiser of the TFL Api + National Rails to be able to track (with minimal drift) a train along the way in London and to the nearest airports. If you pick one from any platform in https://nexttrain.london basically you can share your train journey along the rails. Build to test Cloudflare workers and their infra along with deck.gl performance that is incredible in my opinion.
Jul 2026 · ride.nexttrain.london · its alternatives →
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hop.js▲129A fast, free, privacy-first CDN for open-source projects
2025 · hopjs.bunny.net · its alternatives →
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The Rust Monorepo Engine. Contribute to loadingalias/cargo-rail development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Connect your existing cloud files to Fastio, then give Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, and other AI agents secure file intelligence for search, analysis, and coordinated work.
2019 · fast.io · its alternatives →
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CloudRail▲76A Single API for Multiple Services & Smart Devices.
2015 · belden.com · its alternatives →
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Belden delivers network infrastructure and connectivity solutions for industrial and enterprise markets—enabling IT/OT convergence and secure data flow.
2016 · cloudrail.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I have been messing around with WebRTC for a few years now but when it comes to the TURN server I never quite got to my gold standard of free, self-hosted and open source. I decided to give it a go using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's free tier, meaning that my total spend got down to domain name hosting. I know plenty of people have been burnt by Oracle in the past, but I have had servers running on the free tier for 5 years now without so much as a hiccup. Regardless, the concepts will be the same using any cloud based server. This is the first time I've written up an end-to-end…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Belden delivers network infrastructure and connectivity solutions for industrial and enterprise markets—enabling IT/OT convergence and secure data flow.
2016 · cloudrail.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone, We have been developing Agnost (https://agnost.dev) for some time and it has reached a point that we can share with the larger community. What is it? Agnost is an open-source self-hosted Railway.app, Render.com, Vercel.com, Netlify.com, etc. alternative running on Kubernetes clusters. You connect your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repo and Agnost takes care of building the image and deploying your apps to your cluster whenever you push new code to your repo. How it works? Under the hood, Agnost integrates several open-source platforms. For the build and push pipeline…
2024 · agnost.dev · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News, this is Ashish. We started building Stackdome in 2024 as a hobby project. The idea was to package the tooling in the CNCF/cloud-native ecosystem into an opinionated platform, so that developers can get a well engineered platform without learning Kubernetes YAMLology or a dozen other projects from the CNCF landscape. Railway and Render did this well for their hosted products. I wanted to bring that level of polish and DX to something you can self-host. Stackdome uses Kubernetes underneath, but it's completely transparent to users. (I have some ideas for an expert mode…
Aug 2026 · stackdome.com · its alternatives →
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I've been trying to write my "go on rails" framework for years. I never quite got it like I wanted. There is gin and echo and all sorts of other frameworks and patterns but I finally found something I really like: /foo/ /foo/bar/ /foo/bar/more/ That's it. Just three levels and all my controllers get passed in what's between the / with var names first, second, third. In order to really make sure this framework could build something real I made a Hacker News clone. RemoteRenters.com is a HN just for articles about the remote work revolution…
2023 · remoterenters.com · its alternatives →
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No gc, No goroutines, Produces small binaries while using the unmodified official go toolchain, and comes with complete Web SDK (generated from w3c/webref). We are building `pcz` to provide a reimagination of Go the language, in an effort to make it suitable for all kinds of programming tasks, and currently you can use it to build efficient web applications in Go using the generated Web SDK (as shown with the live web demo[1]). The journey is just starting, any suggestions? or any critics? [1]: https://primecitizens.github.io/livedemos/10-plat-web/
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Mohammed, a technical founder who loves shipping and giving back to the community. I'm open-sourcing the full-stack engine that powers my B2B product, apflow.co. What it is: A production B2B starter with a Go backend and Next.js frontend. Both are fully Dockerized with separate containers. No Vercel. No Supabase. Deploy the whole thing on a $6 VPS, or split frontend and backend across different providers. You own the infrastructure. The problem I was solving: Every SaaS starter I evaluated had the same issue: they locked me into someone else's platform. Vercel for hosting.…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Beonrails▲69A web app to make and send proposals and contracts online.
2020 · beonrails.com · its alternatives →
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