Honest breakdown

Why Not Just Deploy Your App Yourself?

You can. It is totally doable. If your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor, here is what it actually takes, in hours, not in theory. Then decide if your time is worth more than $49.

What deploying your app actually takes

1Set up a VPS (Ubuntu, SSH, users)
30 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 2Install Node, Python, or your runtime
    20 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 3Configure Nginx reverse proxy
    45 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 4Set up SSL (Certbot, DNS)
    30 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 5Wire environment variables securely
    20 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 6Set up database (Postgres, Mongo)
    45 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 7Configure auto-deploy (GitHub actions or Dokploy)
    60 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 8Set up backups and monitoring
    45 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 9Debug the 3 things that break during deploy
    120 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 10Smoke test every flow
    30 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • 11Write a runbook so you can fix it later
    30 min
  • Your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor and just needs a real host
    • Total DIY time8 hours 15 min

    DIY makes sense if

    • You have 6-8 hours to spare this weekend
    • You want to learn server management for the long term
    • It is a hobby project and there is no rush

    Hiring us makes sense if

    • Your time is worth more than $49 per hour
    • You want it live today, not after a weekend of debugging
    • You would rather build your product than fight Nginx

    Get your weekend back.

    We deploy in 24h. Fixed price. You get your code, your server, and a runbook. Go build something instead.

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