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Smallpost
A light AMQP message broker, hosted for you, built for small instances
- Score
- 36
- confidence 57
- Evidence
- 7
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 60 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2007
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Queue management and replication inspection require desktop dashboards, but phone-first alerts and quick status checks enable on-the-go incident response. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Queues
Healthy148 MB
About this appAI proposal
Smallpost is a managed message broker for teams who want AMQP-style queues without paying for large servers. You point your existing clients at it and the broker runs on small instances. A phone-friendly dashboard shows queues, memory, CPU and alerts.
It is built for developers and operations people who run message-based systems on tight hardware budgets: small teams, edge and IoT deployments, and anyone self-hosting a broker who would rather not. The design aim is minimal memory, few allocations and few syscalls.
What sets it apart is that it shows its own footprint. Every queue has a resource cost next to its depth, so you can see what each workload needs and pick the smallest plan that fits. Persistence and replication are treated as the hard part.
- Tagline
- Queues that fit on a small server.
- Voice
- PlainFrugalPrecise
- Why this name
- A post is where messages are handed over; small says the point: low resource use. Two plain words joined, easy to say and spell.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
AMQP 0-9-1 client compatibility
Aims to work with the client libraries you already use. A compatibility check runs your client's calls against a free instance before you move.
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Footprint per queue
See memory, CPU and disk use next to message depth for each queue and vhost, so you know what each workload costs.
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Right-size advisor
Reads your last 14 days of traffic and suggests the smallest plan that holds your peak, with the headroom shown.
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Replication you can inspect
Follower lag, last confirmed write and failover history on one screen, because persistence is the hard part.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Queues that fit on a small server.
PricingAI proposal
Based on CloudAMQP's pricing page (verified): a free plan and 8 paid plans from $19 to $2,999 a month. These tiers sit within that range as a starting point to test, not a finding.
Free
Free
- 1 small shared instance
- Limited messages and connections
- Dashboard and compatibility check
Starter
$15 a month
- Dedicated small instance
- Push alerts
- Right-size advisor
- Daily backups
Team
$79 a month
- Replicated pair of nodes
- Replication view
- Migration import
- Team access
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
$190,000
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. Reached through developer content, benchmarks and migration guides. Use is behind the scenes, so the product itself does not bring in new customers.
- Do they become customers?
- Developers see the name only in their own config. Test whether benchmark posts and a free instance turn into paid Starter signups.
- First customers
- Small engineering teams of 2 to 15 people that pay for hosted RabbitMQ on a lower plan and run queue workloads under 2,000 messages a second.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and dev blogs: Publish an open benchmark and a migration write-up with a link to the free instance.
- Self-hosting communities: Offer free migration help to people posting about broker memory or cost problems.
- First milestone
- Ten teams migrate a real workload to Starter or Team, and five are still paying after 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedHacker News post received 16 points and 6 comments
- Public claimThe team behind a hosted message broker service identified limitations in existing solutions they couldn't work around, motivating them to build their own.
- Public claimLavinMQ achieves significantly higher throughput on minimal hardware compared to traditional brokers.
- Public claimLavinMQ is actively used in production at scale.
- 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 · Broker runtimeOpen-source AMQP 0-9-1 broker on VMsThe product is the broker itself. It needs long-running servers, which Vercel does not provide.
- This app · ProvisioningCloud VM API and container orchestrationCreates, resizes and replicates customer instances on small machines.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalReliable persistence and replication is the hard part of a broker, not the protocol. Data loss or bad failover would end trust quickly.
- CommercialHosted RabbitMQ is established, and the material shows a lower-resource broker already in production use. Smallpost must differ in the dashboard and advice, not only footprint.
- DataCustomers' messages may carry sensitive data. Encryption, isolation and backups must be solid before any paid launch.
- CommercialSavings on hardware may be small next to the price of switching, so teams may stay put. This needs testing with real migrations.
- TechnicalCompatibility claims with AMQP clients need broad testing. Gaps in less-used features could block migrations.
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.