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Hearthrun
Deploy and watch serverless apps on servers you own, from your phone or desk
- Score
- 47
- confidence 60
- Evidence
- 7
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2017
- Established market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Platform engineers set up infrastructure and review dashboards at a desk, but need to monitor alerts and deploy fixes from anywhere, including while on-call from a phone. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Migration check
Bindings mapped14 of 18
About this appAI proposal
Hearthrun is a control console for teams that run a self-hosted, workers-style serverless runtime on their own machines. Connect your nodes, deploy functions, and see KV, databases, object storage, queues, crons and workflows in one place, installable as an app on any device.
It also reads an existing project built for a proprietary edge platform and lists which bindings map cleanly to your runtime and which need work. You see the gaps before you move anything, then roll out one service at a time.
Your code and data stay on your infrastructure. Hearthrun holds only settings and health signals, and it can be switched off without stopping a single running function.
- Tagline
- Your serverless stack, on your own ground.
- Voice
- PlainSteadyPractical
- Why this name
- A hearth is the fixed place you own and keep warm. Run is what the functions do. Two plain words that say: it lives with you.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Migration check
Upload a project config and get a binding-by-binding report: supported, partly supported, or not yet. Ordered by effort so you can plan the move.
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One view of every service
Functions, KV, databases, object storage, queues, workflows and crons listed per node with health and usage side by side.
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Deploy and roll back
Push a build to one node or a group, watch it go live, and revert to the last good version with one tap.
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Node enrolment
Add a server with a single command. A small agent opens an outbound connection, so no inbound ports are exposed.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Your serverless stack, on your own ground.
PricingAI proposal
Based on Vercel's verified pricing page: one paid plan at $20 a month, a free plan, and prices on request for larger customers. Team is set below $20 as a starting point to test. The material gives no other prices.
Solo
Free
- 1 node
- Migration check
- Fleet view and deploy history
- Email alerts
Team
$15 a month
- Up to 10 nodes
- 5 team members with roles
- Push alerts and audit log
- Deploy groups and rollback
- Cost comparison
Business
Contact us
- Unlimited nodes
- Single sign-on
- Extended audit retention
- Priority support
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
- Users invite others. A platform engineer invites teammates as viewers, deployers or admins. Invited colleagues get alerts and deploy access, so each team's use pulls in the people who share the infrastructure.
- Do they become customers?
- Invitees are working colleagues who can ask for more nodes or seats, but the buyer is likely one platform lead. Test whether invited viewers lead to upgrades to Team within 60 days.
- First customers
- Platform engineers at small software companies of 10 to 50 people who run their own servers and are weighing a move off a proprietary edge platform.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and GitHub: Post a free migration check that anyone can try on a config file, and link it from discussions of the self-hosted runtime.
- Self-hosting communities: Share write-ups of real migrations and cost comparisons in forums and chat groups where DevOps people trade setups.
- First milestone
- Fifty migration checks run and five teams paying for Team within 90 days of launch.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 1895 stars in 48 days
- Public claimTeams need a workers-compatible platform that runs self-hosted as a single Rust binary.
- Public claimVercel's paid plan starting at $20/month is perceived as too expensive for some developers.
- Public claimVercel is built on top of AWS infrastructure, which creates a cost layer that alternative platforms could undercut.
- Verified
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 · Node agentSmall agent with outbound-only secure connectionLets the console manage servers without opening inbound ports on customer machines.
- This app · Metrics storageTime-series tables in Postgres with rollupsHealth and usage history for fleet and alert views without adding a separate database at first.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialThe self-hosted runtime is a separate open-source project. Hearthrun depends on its management interfaces and has no demand proof of its own beyond interest in the repository.
- TechnicalCompatibility with the proprietary platform is partial and changing. Migration reports could be wrong and lead teams to move workloads that then break.
- CommercialTeams that choose self-hosting may expect free tooling. Paying for a console on top of a free runtime has to be tested.
- TechnicalAn agent with deploy rights on customer servers is a security target. It needs careful design, signed builds and review before launch.
- PlatformThe runtime's maintainers could ship their own dashboard and make a separate console unnecessary.
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.