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Homeground
Deploy apps with built-in replicated SQLite, close to your users worldwide
- Score
- 52
- confidence 65
- Evidence
- 9
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 3
- named in sources
- First version
- 120 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2007
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Developers deploy and manage infrastructure, configure regions, monitor dashboards, and review scaling costs in long desk sessions with dense configuration screens. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Regions
All regions in sync4 regions
About this appAI proposal
Homeground is a hosting platform for web apps that keep state: server-rendered pages, forms, votes, logins. You push your app, pick regions, and it runs next to your users with a SQLite database that is already replicated between them. No separate database to rent, place or keep in sync.
It is for application developers and small teams who find serverless too stateless and a fleet of VMs across regions too much to manage. Instances start quickly, scale up and down in each region, and writes are reconciled for you.
The difference from a classic PaaS is global placement. The difference from serverless is that state lives with the app, not in someone else's database. This is a proposal; the replication design needs to be proven under real load.
- Tagline
- Your app and its data, at home in every region.
- Voice
- PlainCalmPractical
- Why this name
- Home ground is where you play best. The name says the app and its data sit close to each user, wherever they are.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Replicated SQLite included
Every app gets a SQLite database that copies itself across your chosen regions. Read and write locally with no connection strings.
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Pick regions, not servers
Add or remove a region from a list. Homeground places instances, copies data and routes visitors to the nearest one.
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Autoscaling per region
Instances start in milliseconds when traffic arrives in a region and stop when it leaves, so quiet regions cost little.
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Conflict view
See when two regions changed the same row and how it was settled, with rules you can adjust per table.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Your app and its data, at home in every region.
PricingAI proposal
Verified pages: Heroku charges from $5 to $750 a month, Fly.io from $29 to $2,500, AWS Lambda $0.20 by usage plus a free plan. Tiers sit in that range; the material gives no data on willingness to pay. Test them.
Hobby
Free
- 1 region
- 1 small instance that sleeps when idle
- 500 MB database
Starter
$5 a month
- 1 region
- Always-on instance
- 5 GB database with backups
Team
$29 a month
- Up to 3 regions
- Autoscaling per region
- Conflict view
- Point-in-time restore
Global
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. It reaches customers through developer content, launch posts and word of mouth. Deployed apps do not show the platform to their visitors by default.
- Do they become customers?
- Visitors to hosted apps are not buyers. Test whether developer posts and a free tier convert into paying Team plans, and whether an optional 'hosted on' badge adds sign-ups.
- First customers
- Solo developers and teams of two to five shipping server-rendered web apps with logins and forms, who now run on Heroku or Fly.io and want multiple regions.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and dev forums: Publish a build write-up and a live demo app running in four regions, and answer technical questions openly.
- Open-source starter templates: Release deploy-ready templates for common frameworks, each with a one-click deploy to Homeground.
- Direct outreach: Message developers who publicly describe multi-region or database pain, and offer free onboarding.
- First milestone
- Ten teams run a production app on the Team plan for 60 days, with at least three using two or more regions.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedHacker News post received 141 points and 25 comments
- Public claimThe author spent 4 years building Fly.io and saw limitations in the serverless/stateful app tradeoff
- Public claimLightweight VMs can now create instances in milliseconds, enabling practical serverless-like performance with state support
- AI inferenceDevelopers want to build stateful applications (server-rendered HTML apps with forms, votes, and auth) without state management complexity
- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Compute isolationLightweight microVM hosts in several regionsCustomer apps must run isolated and start in milliseconds near users.
- This app · OrchestrationScheduler and request router per regionPlaces instances, scales them and sends visitors to the nearest region.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalMulti-region SQLite replication with automatic conflict handling is hard. Some apps will hit surprising merges, and a data-loss bug would end trust fast.
- CommercialFly.io and Heroku already serve this audience. Developers may not move for a simpler state model, and switching costs are real.
- PlatformRunning microVMs worldwide needs hosting capacity from infrastructure providers. Their prices set the margin, and a small team carries upfront cost.
- DataCustomers' production data is replicated across countries, which may raise data residency questions that region choice must answer.
- TechnicalApps that need heavy relational features or large datasets may outgrow SQLite, limiting who the product fits.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.