Porter is a platform that makes AWS/GCP as easy to use as Heroku. With instant deploys from Git, built-in autoscaling, and automatic SSL, Porter gives you the convenience of a PaaS while preserving flexibility and control.
About Porter on Product Hunt
“Heroku that runs in your own cloud”
Porter launched on Product Hunt on March 24th, 2021 and earned 403 upvotes and 104 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Porter is a platform that makes AWS/GCP as easy to use as Heroku. With instant deploys from Git, built-in autoscaling, and automatic SSL, Porter gives you the convenience of a PaaS while preserving flexibility and control.
On the analytics side, Porter competes within Web App, Open Source and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 701.1k 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.
Michael Seibel