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Railyard — git-push deploys to servers you own · Show HN

Headline and subline do the job: I know what it is (deploy to my own DigitalOcean/Hetzner/Vultr), and "free, no card, no server needed" removes the first excuse.
The pricing is clean (Free / $19 Pro / $99 Team), but the first line of the site is a banner about the $99 plan: the newest visitor, likely a solo dev, is greeted by the most expensive offer.
"Your cloud account, our software" raises the obvious fear — what access do you get to my provider account, and what happens to my apps if Railyard disappears? In what I read on the home and pricing pages, I didn't find that answered up front.
The comparisons cover hosted platforms (Heroku, Render, Railway, Fly) but the real rival for "deploy to my own VPS" is free self-hosted tooling; a buyer will compare with that whether the page does or not.
First fix: a short "If Railyard goes away, your servers keep running and here's how you take over" next to "Start free". That one sentence turns lock-in fear into a reason to try.

Reviewed 2026-11-04.

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