OpenShip is an open source PaaS that runs on our cloud or your infrastructure. Push your code and OpenShip handles builds, deployments, domains, SSL, monitoring, backups, secrets, and the services your apps depend on. Start fully managed on OpenShip Cloud or self host on your own cloud or on prem. Move between them without changing how you deploy. No proprietary runtime. No vendor lock in. Remove OpenShip and your apps keep running. Deploy anything. Own everything.
Canceled my supabase+vercel+modal subscriptions after migrating to OpenShip, it is much easier and cheaper to maintain now!
Waiting for community Plugins & Themes to use it but I will always support this project!
Hey Product Hunt 👋
We built OpenShip because deploying still feels like a stack of tools: a PaaS for git deploys, a panel for servers, scripts for rollbacks, and a lock-in problem if you ever want to move.
OpenShip is an open source platform for deploying apps on infrastructure you own or on OpenShip Cloud if you don’t want to run servers.
Push from Git, the CLI, the desktop app, or an AI agent over MCP. It detects the stack, builds an immutable version on your machine, ships it over SSH, and brings the new version live with zero downtime. No agent installed on the server. One click rolls back to any previous version.
Same workflow everywhere:
• OpenShip Cloud when you want managed deploys
• Your own VPS, bare metal, or homelab when you want ownership
• Hybrid when you want both
• Move either direction later without rebuilding
Also included: preview URLs for PRs, custom domains + auto SSL, scaling across servers, live logs, and a topology view of what’s actually running.
Self host is free and Apache-2.0. Cloud starts at $5/mo.
If you’ve been stuck between “easy but locked in” and “owned but painful,” this is the version we wanted.
“Open source PaaS on your server or in the cloud. No lock in.”
OpenShip launched on Product Hunt on September 30th, 2026 and earned 142 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. OpenShip is an open source PaaS that runs on our cloud or your infrastructure. Push your code and OpenShip handles builds, deployments, domains, SSL, monitoring, backups, secrets, and the services your apps depend on. Start fully managed on OpenShip Cloud or self host on your own cloud or on prem. Move between them without changing how you deploy. No proprietary runtime. No vendor lock in. Remove OpenShip and your apps keep running. Deploy anything. Own everything.
OpenShip was featured in Open Source (68.9k followers), SaaS (44.5k followers), Developer Tools (520.4k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 189.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted OpenShip?
OpenShip was hunted by fmerian. 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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I think going agentless over SSH is a great call to keep things lean. Congrats and good luck!