Travis Briggs23h ago

Slowly moving to Railway (https://railway.com/), starting with all new and vibe coded services.

Very similar to Fly.io, but cleaner/more modern dashboard (it matters!) and most importantly: usage based billing, based on compute/hr (not machine uptime/hr).

#deploy #SideProject #flyio #railway

Railway

Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security.

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SOOOOO much cheaper. Last month's Fly.io bill was 180 dollars because when I vibe coded a Fly.io deploy for a temporary Planka (https://github.com/plankanban/planka), Claude made sure I could scale by spinning up 4 (*FOUR*) Postgres servers at $40/mo each.
GitHub - plankanban/planka: PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone

PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone - plankanban/planka

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Show threadTravis Briggs23h ago

Drawback is the Railway CLI is absolute shit. Well it's manageable, but very hard for Claude to use. That's bad for my now-regular "Okay deploy a new project for this" which usually writes the Dockerfile too). Also bad for my "Now update Cloudflare to point blah.example.com to it".

Good news is that I told Claude to write a railway SKILL.md and prefer that with the raw GraphQL API instead.

#VibeCoding #Claude #Railway