Railway
Infrastructure
hosting platform
SHOW HN2021
11points
7comments
#1,887of 2,533 in 2021
Top 75%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.
Design: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Intuitive UI, easy to get started without reading docs.
From 1 comment
I’m not using Railway in production, but I have been using it as a test DB to learn some new tools. It was recommended in a Discord group after people were having issues with how…
alexanderjchun on HN
Objections
Per-seat pricing makes shared team use awkward.
From 1 comment
How's the per seat pricing working out for you? I'd see a lot of people just using a shared login for this.
mritchie712 on HN
Requests
Granular permissions and SSO for teams.
From 1 comment
There’s definitely some of that. In my experience, pretty much every “Teams” product is really just for larger orgs to simplify orchestration. Plus people pay for usage…
justjake on HN
Attribute deploys to the GitHub user pushing, as Vercel does.
From 1 comment
Vercel solves this by basing it on the github user that's pushing to the repo. Something to consider.
mritchie712 on HN
Questions
How does per-GitHub-user attribution work for open-source repos with many contributors?
From 1 comment
That's a neat idea. I wonder if that breaks down for open-source repos with lots of contributors, or does Vercel have different pricing in that case?
gschier on HN
Alternatives named
Heroku
From 1 comment
I’m not using Railway in production, but I have been using it as a test DB to learn some new tools. It was recommended in a Discord group after people were having issues with how…
alexanderjchun on HN
Vercel
From 1 comment
Vercel solves this by basing it on the github user that's pushing to the repo. Something to consider.
mritchie712 on HN