Porter deploys applications into your own AWS account with just a few clicks. Get started on Porter just as easily as you would on a traditional PaaS, with a peace of mind that you can customize your infrastructure as you scale.
Many startups get started on a PaaS to ship their MVP quickly without wasting time on infrastructure (as all startups should). However, most of these companies end up "graduating" off the PaaS and move to their own infrastructure on AWS or GCP for more flexibility as they scale.
Porter allows you to get started just as easily as you would on a traditional PaaS, with a peace of mind that you can customize the underlying infrastructure as you scale. Under the hood, Porter runs a battle-tested Kubernetes cluster with the same kind of architecture that growth-stage companies usually build out with a team of infra engineers, allowing startups to scale effortlessly.
We first launched Porter on PH almost 2 years ago. We got a lot of interest from our initial launch, but after a few months quickly realized that we didn’t have the resources to properly manage so many Kubernetes clusters that are distributed across different cloud accounts at scale.
This led us to the difficult decision of shutting down our self-serve function and focusing on larger growth-stage companies who we thought actually warrants the scalability of something like Kubernetes. This strategy worked well - we incrementally moved upmarket, quickly grew our revenue, and even onboarded a few public companies.
After a year since the initial launch, however, something fascinating started to happen; some of the seed stage companies we’ve onboarded in the beginning started to reach true scale on Porter (many of which also did their initial launches on PH!).
For example, Writesonic (https://www.producthunt.com/prod...), who first started on Porter during their YC batch, now runs a Kubernetes cluster with 1.5 Terabytes of RAM without a single full-time infra engineer. Memberstack (https://www.producthunt.com/prod...) now routinely handles more than a million requests a day processing >$5M in payments every month. The list goes on.
Today we are re-launching Porter as we open it back up so that anyone can try it out on their own. After two years of building and growing our team, we are now in a much better position to support a self-serve motion and would love to invite the next generation of makers to get started on Porter and scale to new levels as they grow, just like Writesonic and Memberstack have.
Along with the launch, we're also offering Porter for free for a year to select companies. If you are interested, please fill out the form here: https://gcpjnf9adme.typeform.com.... We'll select 10 companies for this deal!
About Porter on Product Hunt
“PaaS you cannot outgrow”
Porter launched on Product Hunt on June 6th, 2023 and earned 106 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #29 on the daily leaderboard. Porter deploys applications into your own AWS account with just a few clicks. Get started on Porter just as easily as you would on a traditional PaaS, with a peace of mind that you can customize your infrastructure as you scale.
On the analytics side, Porter competes within SaaS, Developer Tools and Tech — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Porter performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Porter?
Porter was hunted by Michael Seibel. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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