Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years. I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided. It’s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it. We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Agreed, at the moment, I have it set up on https://canine.sh which is fully open source. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I’ve been working on an open source tool that turns your Kubernetes into a Heroku like PaaS — https://canine.sh A problem that we had at my last startup was that we got stuck between not wanting to spend too much time on devops, and getting price gouged by Heroku. We were too big for the deploy to a VPS type options like coolify, but too small to justify hiring a full time Devops. Eventually a few of us had to... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I've been developing and maintaining https://canine.sh and https://hellocsv.github.io/HelloCSV/ for some time now, and its really odd what pops up when you google these. Neither of these projects anything requiring payment anywhere, but tons of sites pop up trying to "sell" these projects. I wouldn't even know what that means and I'm kind of tempted to drop in a credit card to see what happens. Would they auto... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Been building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh. Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Check out: https://explodingtopics.com/ (not related to them in any way). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Sounds pretty similar to the situation I found myself in. I discovered a few newsletters/tools: trending insights (free), exploding topics ($39/mo), and trends.co ($300/ yr). Source: almost 3 years ago

I also recommend subscribing to newsletters like new venture weekly (free) or Exploding Topics (freemium) for business ideas. Source: about 3 years ago

Best to start with what you're good at doing, check websites like exploding topics and answer the public to see if there is hype/market around your skillset. Get started by helping people in that niche for free, use AI tools to supercharge your work and find clients. Rinse and repeat until you start making money. Source: about 3 years ago

There are places that can even help you find the perfect niche to go into like exploding niches, exploding topics to name a few. Source: about 3 years ago