Canine Alternatives

canine reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Best way to simultaneously run multiple projects locally?
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2025

  I’m the developer of https://canine.sh — I’d humbly ask you to take a look! It’s basically built to solve exactly this problem, and it’s totally free + open source.

  The backend uses kubernetes, and the frontend integrates with GitHub, dockerhub, etc, for doing builds and deploys.

  I’ve been able to host 2 rails apps, 1 postgres and 1 redis in a $10/month Hetzner VPS.

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025)
  105 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2025

  I've been building https://canine.sh for the past year, which is an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc.

  It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.

  It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.

  The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.

• Render raises $80M in Series C financing
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2025

  I’ve been trying to build an open source clone of render for the past year, that is portable across basically all cloud providers that offer managed kubernetes, (which is basically everyone)

  Render is an improvement on pricing from Heroku but is still massively more expensive than raw VPS instances such as the ones you can buy on digital ocean, and it’s much less flexible.

  https://canine.sh

• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2024

  Building https://canine.sh, which is a platform to make any Kubernetes cluster as easy to use as Heroku for deploying web apps, cron jobs, etc.

  The >$500 is basically by offering it for free to everyone and having support to 3 small corporate customers.

  I found this is a really great way to get feedback and bootstrap the roadmap of a project. Little usability / quality of life features, that I never would've worked on myself, turned out to be sizable pain points for others.

  And since they're paying at least something for it, the few beta customers are a lot more committed to making the thing work.

• .NET Support on Heroku
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2024

  Same thing happened to us. Moved to kubernetes 2 years and we had to rebuild all the features of Heroku in house against a kubernetes backend.

  I’ve been working in my spare time to try to create an open source version of this, in case it would be useful to anyone else in the future https://github.com/czhu12/canine

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