Ubicloud is an open source cloud that can run anywhere. Our services include compute, block storage, load balancer, firewall, managed Postgres, and GitHub runners. You can self-host our software or use our managed service to reduce your cloud costs by 3-10x.
Hey all, we've been watching our friends launch on Product Hunt from the sidelines. Today, we're making the jump ourselves!
TLDR: Ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. Previously, if you wanted to launch a web app on Ubicloud, you'd have to go through many hurdles. Today, we're launching our Kamal integration. This way, you can launch your web apps in an open source, portable, and cost-effective manner.
We also have a special perk available to Hunters. Email us at [email protected] during our launch week and we'll set you up with credits equivalent to 15,000 free compute minutes (standard-2). We'd also love to hear your feedback about anything Ubicloud related!
Why this, why now?
The cloud has become too expensive. Public cloud providers have proprietary solutions that lock you in. We think the time has come for an open source and cost-effective alternative.
What is Kamal?
Kamal is an open source project from Basecamp that lets you deploy web apps anywhere. DHH has a great video that explains how it works here - https://kamal-deploy.org
What does it mean to use Kamal with Ubicloud?
Kamal lets you deploy any kind of web app that can be containerized. It still requires certain primitives from the underlying infrastructure. These include compute, database, load balancer, DNS, and certificates. We've been working for months to provide these primitives in our open source and on managed offerings. They are available starting today.
Do you have any experience with building this sort of thing?
Our founding team comes from Azure; and worked at Amazon and Heroku before that. We also have start-up experience. We were co-founders and founding team members at Citus Data, which was acquired by Microsoft.
Ubicloud provides compute (VM), block storage, firewall & load balancer, managed PostgreSQL, and GitHub runners. Again, if you have feedback for us, we'd love to hear it. Please chime in!
About Ubicloud (YC W24) on Product Hunt
“Open source alternative to AWS”
Ubicloud (YC W24) launched on Product Hunt on September 16th, 2024 and earned 640 upvotes and 74 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Ubicloud is an open source cloud that can run anywhere. Our services include compute, block storage, load balancer, firewall, managed Postgres, and GitHub runners. You can self-host our software or use our managed service to reduce your cloud costs by 3-10x.
On the analytics side, Ubicloud (YC W24) competes within Open Source, SaaS and GitHub — topics that collectively have 151k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Ubicloud (YC W24) performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Ubicloud (YC W24)?
Ubicloud (YC W24) was hunted by Ozgun Erdogan. 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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