Leapcell

What it does

Leapcell is a modern cloud platform for developers, offering web hosting for apps, APIs and databases, and provides a generous free tier sufficient for 20 projects. Feel free to deploy all your ideas and side projects here.

Leapcell is a modern cloud platform and PaaS for developers, offering seamless web hosting for apps, APIs, and databases. Enjoy serverless deployment, high performance, automatic scalability, and strong security worldwide.

Leapcell aims to make it radically simple and cost-effective to launch any Prototype , Hobby Project , or Crazy Idea and maximize its impact. Leapcell lets you deploy up to 20 projects for free. Yes, that’s true! We support a wide range of language runtimes and frameworks, letting you focus on iterating your code instead of managing infrastructure. Deploy projects free until they grow. We only charge for usage, never for idle time . Generous Hobby plan lets you explore side projects and bold ideas online. From 0 instances to thousands. Your service automatically scale with the traffic. Persistent Server : As traffic grows, serverless may cost more. Leapcell also offers Persistent Servers…from leapcell.io

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, This is Isaac, co-founder of Leapcell (https://leapcell.io/). I used to shut down small hobby projects because cloud costs and maintenance were too high. They would just sit on GitHub, unused. Leapcell lets you keep your ideas online without worrying about cost. You can deploy *up to 20 projects…

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