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matus_congrady

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CEO @ Stacktape Building a PaaS that deploys apps to your own AWS account. Also, with the easiet IaaC configuration on the planet.

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matus_congrady
·قبل 11 ساعة·discuss
When working on our startup Stacktape, we were struggling a lot to keep our public technical documentation up to date. AI didn't really help - correcting its mistakes was as hard as writing it ourselves. But then, we came up with an idea how we could do it reliably - https://docstube.dev

docstube generates documentation from your codebase, fact-checks every claim against the source, writes it for the people actually reading it, and keeps it in sync as your code changes. What sets it apart from other such tools is its advanced verification engine (validates both deterministically and using AI agents). So you can actually trust the outcome.

It's currently in private alpha, and not ready for testing. Public launch is planned for first half of 08/2026.
matus_congrady
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
The cheapest way to deploy a container accessible over HTTP is to use web-service resource (which uses AWS ECS loadbalanced with HTTP-Api-Gateway, which is pay-per-use) and use EC2 launch type (cheapest instances are only a few $). Not sure if it's still under AWS free tier, but definitely not expensive.

Regarding charing % of AWS bill - yes, we're changing that soon. It's going to be flat fee + 10% of AWS bill.

Our free tier covers 90% of vibecoder, freelancer and side-project use-cases though. So probably nothing to worry about unless you're a 2+ person business. And at that point, it's still far less expensive than having a DevOps person or learning all of the 150,000 AWS loopholes yourself.
matus_congrady
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
https://github.com/stacktape/stacktape

An alternative to tools lik sst.dev or serverless framework, or a PaaS services like Render.com or Flightcontrol.

Deploys to user's own AWS. IaC-first. Has a PaaS-like console UI.

The best features: auto-generates IaC config by scanning your code. Has built-in EC2 runner which is 2-6x faster than AWS CodeBuild.

We've now also implemented dev mode, which is similar to SST. It deploys parts of the stacks that can't be locally emulated (lambda functions, cognito, etc.) with fast re-deploy, and emulates everything else (containers, SQL databases, Redis, DynamoDb, etc.) locally. This means testing/developing is pretty much free, and you have the fastest feedback loops possible.

Whole Stacktape, and dev mode in particular is also very optimized for coding agents with `--agent` flag.

To try it, run `npx stacktape init`

EDIT: Changed the link to github. Stacktape core is now open-source.