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!

Congrats on the relaunch! We've been working with Porter since the beginning, they've been great!

We've been Porter customers for about a year and it's been a great place to run our apps' environments. Working with Porter really helped us make the transition from Heroku -> AWS much smoother and lower-stress than it would have otherwise been with minimal disruption to our engineers' workflows or to our production environment itself. Porter's preview environments for PRs are fantastic. Losing nice high-parity preview environments for our feature branches was one of the things I was most stressed about losing when we decided to move on from Heroku.

Congratulations on the launch of Porter - an exciting step towards simple, customized cloud deployments!

Love the idea!

It has a lot of promise for melting away a lot of the siteops and devops a startup requires to scale

Congratulations on the launch of Porter on Product Hunt! 🎉 The ability to simplify the prototyping process and deploy applications into our own AWS accounts with ease is truly impressive. I've always valued user-friendly tools that streamline the design and development workflow, and Porter seems to do just that. The intuitive drag-and-drop interface and pre-built components make it incredibly convenient to create interactive prototypes, enabling us to bring our ideas to life quickly. What sets Porter apart is the seamless integration with AWS, allowing us to deploy applications directly into our own accounts. This level of control and customization is invaluable, especially as our applications scale and require tailored infrastructure configurations. I'm excited about the collaborative features and real-time feedback capabilities that Porter offers. It's wonderful to see a platform that facilitates efficient collaboration among teams and stakeholders, making the design review process smoother and more effective. Kudos to the Porter team for providing a solution that combines the ease of use of a traditional PaaS with the flexibility of deploying on our own AWS accounts. This launch is a game-changer for designers and developers looking for a comprehensive prototyping and deployment platform. I can't wait to explore the full potential of Porter and see how it simplifies and enhances our prototyping and deployment workflows. Wishing you continued success with the product and looking forward to seeing what exciting updates and features lie ahead. Well done! 👏