better-paas

What it does

Why this ? There are already Vercel, Railways, Coolify, Dokploy and 100 more. Glad you asked. Those are great. But Some feels too many features, outdated and other just suck your bank balance when your project get more and more users. I tried to balance those. No surprise bills, No Vendor lock. You own your VPS, data and everything. You are responsible when things goes wrong. 😅

Better-PaaS is the open-source, self-hosted PaaS for indie hackers and AI-assisted workflows. Deploy from Git on your VPS, connect with paas CLI, and manage apps from Cursor or Claude Code using scoped agent tokens and MCP.

Better-PaaS is an agent-first, self-hosted PaaS. Git push deploys, automatic HTTPS, and databases on your VPS - plus scoped tokens, paas connect , and MCP tools for Cursor and Claude Code. Manage your deployed services. Filter by what's running, building, paused, or failed. Connect with paas connect . Check status, tail logs, and deploy from Cursor or Claude Code - no dashboard hopping. Deploy from Git, route HTTPS, add databases, inspect logs, and roll back - then hand day-to-day ops to scoped agents from your editor. Thoughtful defaults so the boring parts of running a platform just work. Stream container output in real time and drop into a terminal on any container, straight from the…from better-paas.com

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