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Stackap for early-stage startups
Stackap suits an early-stage startup whose product is a conventional web app and whose hosting bill is starting to matter, and it does not suit one that needs compliance paperwork or global delivery this quarter.
The situation
A startup's hosting bill rarely starts large, which is why it is easy to ignore. The problem is the slope: each new service adds a plan, and usage-based pricing means a good month for the product is also a more expensive month for the bill.
There is a second, quieter cost. The more places your product lives, the more places a new engineer has to learn, and the more accounts someone has to remember to offboard.
What Stackap gives you here
- A flat cost: a server and a few dollars, not a set of meters.
- Everything in one place, which shortens the list of systems a new engineer has to learn.
- Encrypted backups to a bucket in your own account, restore-tested weekly.
- Walled organizations, in case you later host a customer's environment next to your own.
- Standard Postgres and ordinary containers, so leaving costs a copy, not a rewrite.
How it looks in practice
The practical shape is a staging project and a production project on the same server, each with its own database. Releases are a push, a health check and a switch. Alerts go to a chat. Backups run on their own and you can see when they last proved they restore.
The cost to budget for is your own time. Someone owns the server: applying updates, reading alerts and deciding what to do in an incident. For a team of two with a comfortable terminal user, that is a small, steady cost. For a team with no one who wants it, it is not.
Early-access fit
If an enterprise customer will send you a security questionnaire next month, hold off: independent penetration testing and compliance certifications are not part of early access.
Early access is a less natural fit if you need high availability. Early access runs on one server; a full rebuild drill and a standby server are on the roadmap.
Early-access scope
- Independent security review and certifications are not part of early access.
- One server, one region, no standby.
- Early access is run by the founder directly, which is also why onboarding is hands-on.
- Backups are daily with no point-in-time recovery.
Questions
Can we run production on it?
Is there a team plan?
Stackap is in early access. Tell us what you run and we will reply with a straight answer about whether it fits.
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