Hacker News: dban

Railway surpasses 1M deployments per day

dban — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:03:08 +0000

Article URL: https://railway.com/stats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132712

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic raises $30B at $380B post

dban — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:33:35 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2022023155423002867

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993854

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dban in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

dban — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:32:29 +0000

SMTP is gated behind the $20/mo Pro plan to reduce spam on the internet.

It sounds like you were running a production workload on the Hobby plan

New comment by dban in "Railway secures $100M to challenge AWS"

dban — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:41:27 +0000

You'd have to ask the author or editor or whoever wrote the title, I can't say I get what that phrase means either. Broadly the primitives we're building are all aimed at shortening the distance between generating code and deploying it

New comment by dban in "Railway secures $100M to challenge AWS"

dban — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:07:33 +0000

That's either the fun or the insane part of the challenge, depending on who you ask, going up against some of the most profitable companies in the history of the world

We're happy to answer any questions btw :)

Railway secures $100M to challenge AWS

dban — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:38:35 +0000

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/railway-secures-usd100-million-to-challenge-aws-with-ai-native-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722514

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Pricing to Encourage Use

dban — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/free-plan-part-two

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45337641

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

We Did Margin-Negative Computing Before It Was Cool, and It Was Silly

dban — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:41:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/free-plan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057372

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dban in "Bring Back the Free Plan"

dban — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:48:52 +0000

Author here. Last time we had a free plan, we didn't have PMF so we ended up (at one point) losing $16 for every $1 of top line revenue. This is the story of what we learned the first time and what's different this time

Bring Back the Free Plan

dban — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:47:31 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/free-plan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045028

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Taming Servers for Fun and Profit

dban — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:08:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-two

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427595

Points: 32

# Comments: 20

New comment by dban in "$1M for Open Source"

dban — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:28:36 +0000

Hi HN, it's the last day of our launch week and to celebrate we're announcing a $1M matching cash kickback for open source developers

The way it works is you make a template, other developers run it on our platform, and you get $0.50 for every $1 we collect in usage-based billing against it

We've already distributed ~$60K and when the $1M runs out we'll go back to the standard 25% kickback

$1M for Open Source

dban — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:28:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/1M-open-source-kickbacks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294214

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Why We're Moving on from Nix

dban — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:25:19 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258911

Points: 18

# Comments: 3

New comment by dban in "Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client"

dban — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:27:07 +0000

> But, after selling Insomnia in 2019 and watching it expand into the broader feature set of Postman, I was left wanting a simpler tool again. Yaak was my answer to that

I'd love to read about your experience building two distinct but similar products in the same space years apart

How We Work (Volume IV)

dban — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:06:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/how-we-work-volume-iv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032550

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dban in "Shipping a Changelog Every Friday for More Than 4 Years"

dban — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:39:42 +0000

Author here, I personally wrote more than 100 of the weekly changelogs mentioned in the post, so I'm happy to answer any questions around mechanics, tooling, etc.

Shipping a Changelog Every Friday for More Than 4 Years

dban — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:38:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/how-we-write-changelogs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42890310

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Slack Overflow: How We Scaled Slack to Support 1000s of Developers

dban — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:32:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/slack-overflow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808768

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by dban in "So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center"

dban — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:08:42 +0000

We pulled some cost stuff out of the post in final review because we weren't sure it was interesting ... we'll bring it back for a future post