I wanted Railway-like deployments, but on my own Hetzner server, so I built this.

I really like the experience you get with platforms like Railway: connect a GitHub repository push code automatically build and deploy it get HTTPS and a domain manage environment variables check logs without SSHing into a server What I didn’t like was giving up the simplicity and pricing of running my own VPS. I already had cheap Hetzner servers, but managing deployments myself meant setting up Docker, CI/CD, reverse proxies, certificates, networking, and all the other little things that come with it. So I built Shiper. You can connect your own server to Shiper, deploy applications from GitHub, and keep the infrastructure on your own machine. The idea is basically: Git push --> build --> deploy to your server --> HTTPS --> done. You still own and pay for the server, while Shiper handles the deployment workflow around it. There’s also hosted compute if you don’t want to bring your own server, but the self-hosted part is probably the thing I personally find most interesting. I’ve been building it for a while and we already have around 800 registered users, but I’m now trying to understand what would make people actually use something like this regularly. Would you use this instead of managing Docker/Traefik/CI yourself? And if not, what would stop you? shiper.app