For side-project builders
Ship your side project without hosting anxiety
You built something that works on localhost. The hard part now is picking infrastructure you can afford before you have revenue.
Sound familiar?
- —Railway, Render, Fly.io, Cloudflare Workers — all plausible, all priced differently.
- —Free tiers look generous until you hit a hard limit on storage, egress, or compute hours.
- —Tutorial stacks assume you want Kubernetes or a $50/mo managed Postgres from day one.
- —You do not want to migrate in three months because you picked the wrong default.
Two minutes to a concrete answer
StackPlan asks four things: what kind of app you built, how much traffic you expect, what you store, and how hands-on you want to be with ops. No signup required for your first report.
1
Describe the app
SSR site, API, static docs, background jobs — pick what matches.
2
Set realistic traffic
Daily active users, not the number in your pitch deck.
3
Get a stack + price
Deterministic cost math from provider tiers you can audit.
What the free report shows
- ✓One recommended stack with compute, database, storage, and background jobs mapped out
- ✓Monthly cost estimate from a curated pricing knowledge base — not LLM guesswork
- ✓Interactive canvas showing how the pieces connect
- ✓Alternative stacks blurred on the free plan; top pick in full detail
Upgrade to Pro ($20/mo) to unlock all alternative stacks and save apps to your dashboard.