Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting

You're really going to run into trouble with the "no credit card required" thing - people are going to use your service to, at worst, spam and abuse other people and, at best, mine crypto.

Hey HN,<p>We recently finished our firecracker-based webapp hosting platform.<p>It&#x27;s like if Vercel and Docker had a baby: You write VM configurations in a language that looks like a Dockerfile, and every commit creates a preview environment which can be &quot;promoted&quot; to a production site.<p>Here&#x27;s an example configuration:<p>``` FROM vm&#x2F;ubuntu:18.04 RUN curl -fSsL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deb.nodesource.com&#x2F;setup_12.x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deb.nodesource.com&#x2F;setup_12.x</a> | sudo -E bash RUN apt-get install nodejs COPY . . RUN npm install RUN npm run build RUN BACKGROUND npm run start EXPOSE WEBSITE localhost:3000 ```<p>This product combines our firecracker-based hypervisor (200ms cold starts) with a global CDN written in Go (using Caddy for TLS termination)<p>We can offer everything for free because we charge for the DevOps side (CI&#x2F;CD &amp; preview environments) - we have no intention of getting users and then upselling people for hosting.<p>We&#x27;re obviously very excited about this launch, and would love to hear your feedback.

What&#x27;s the strategy for dealing with persistent data? (Postgres, KV store, whatever)? How do I set that up and connect to it?<p>If you&#x27;re running in AWS (looks like it), how do I set up private networking with RDS?

Your Docs [0] and Examples[1] page, or many [2] other page in the footer for that matter, return a blank page?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;main">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;main</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;examples">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;examples</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;integrations">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;integrations</a><p>Firefox, latest version, no ad blocker enabled. After nosing around in your source a bit, it seems the redirect to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.webapp.io">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.webapp.io</a> doesn&#x27;t work for me?

Why would I use this over fly.io? It seems to be very similar at first glance

When creating an account with Github, why do you ask permission to &quot;act on my behalf&quot;? There is no such permission when creating an account with Google

Fly.io has no credit card free hosting for a bit, then immediately stopped due to insane bot abuse.<p>Might wanna check their article, because you may face the same problems.

We need our server to run very close to our database, preferably in the same datacenter. Does webapp.io support that yet?

I signed up and tried to authorize a single github repo, I received a &#x27;500 error&#x27; from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;api&#x2F;after_github_oauth?code=&amp;installation_id=&amp;setup_action=install&amp;state=">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapp.io&#x2F;api&#x2F;after_github_oauth?code=&amp;installation_...</a>

Any chance you will open-source this?

This application will be able to:<p>- Access the authenticated user&#x27;s API Grants complete read&#x2F;write access to the API, including all groups and projects, the container registry, and the package registry<p>Why is write access necessary?

Hey HN! Co-founder of webapp.io here. Looking forward to your feedback :)

Looks great! Will deploy my next project on here and see how good it is :)

Where does the money come from?