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Hosting & backend
Most indie products do not need a DevOps team. These are deploy and backend defaults with generous free tiers and boring reliability. Pick a host, a database/auth layer, and ship. Switch only when traffic or constraints demand it.
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Supabase
Postgres, auth, storage, and realtime APIs, the common indie backend default.
Vercel
Default Next.js hosting with preview deploys, edge network, and a generous free tier.
Clerk
Drop-in auth UI and user management when you do not want to build login yourself.
Cloudflare Pages
Fast static/JAMstack hosting on Cloudflare’s network with Workers for backend bits.
Fly.io
Run containers close to users, strong when you outgrow pure serverless.
Neon
Serverless Postgres with branching, pairs well with modern Next.js apps.
Railway
Simple Git-based deploys for APIs, workers, and databases without heavy ops.
Render
Straightforward web service and Postgres hosting with predictable deploy UX.