DigitalOcean
How vibe coders and indie builders use DigitalOcean: 23 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
23
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
<0.1%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Cloudflare 5
- PostgreSQL 5
- Redis 5
- SQLite 4
- Python 3
- AWS 3
- Supabase 3
- Node.js 3
What's built with it
Latest projects built with DigitalOcean
- The Deployer — Analyzes a GitHub repository, proposes deployment options with cost estimates, and deploys the app into the user's own AWS, GCP, Azure or DigitalOcean account.“Building an app has become easy. Deploying it properly is still painful. So I built something for that.”
- Aetherstep — Turns real-world steps from Health Connect or HealthKit into in-game energy for an RPG on mobile.“I made a mobile game RPG where your steps in real life turn into energy in game. Looking for testers”
- TaskOverflow — Organizes personal tasks by project and physical location, with a canvas for linking task dependencies and a timeline that orders tasks by priority.“Task manager for very specific needs (yes, its not for everyone)”
- SecondGate — Protects WordPress sites with passkey login and local-only country, IP, and bot blocking, plus a plugin vulnerability scanner.“Looking for 100 technical testers: SecondGate (WordPress security & passkeys, no cloud dependency)”
- LibreDB Studio — Provides a self-hosted browser-based GUI for querying and managing SQL and NoSQL databases such as Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB and Redis, with optional natural-language-to-SQL.“LibreDB Studio- Self-hosted browser DB GUI so your team doesn't need share connectionString”
- Welf — Tracks net worth across investments, cash, super and liabilities, and projects FIRE scenarios.“I built a net worth & FIRE tracker”
- Bundle Bot — Posts new game bundle deals to a Discord channel and sends alerts when tracked games hit their all-time low price.“Kept missing game bundle deals, so I built a Discord bot that tracks them for me”
- mnimalist — Organizes tasks into projects in a calm, keyboard-friendly web to-do app with per-project themes.“After trying dozens of to-do apps, I decided to build my own”
- FacadeThemes — Generates ready-to-map projection theme packages, including transparent prop PNGs, video loops, textures, and a production guide, from a photo of a house.“I got tired of spending hours on projection mapping content for every holiday, so I built an AI platform to generate it — here's the full story”
- Runwake — Monitors whether background jobs and scripts are still checking in on schedule and alerts when they stop.“I built a small heartbeat monitor for cron jobs/scripts”
- Vorryn — Lets people play a browser-based Catan Cities & Knights style strategy game against bots, with support for plugging in custom AI opponents.“I built Vorryn — a free, in-browser game inspired by Catan Cities & Knights, where you can code your own AI opponent”
- MaskPrompt — Detects sensitive data like emails, phone numbers and API keys in chat prompts and replaces them with placeholders before sending, then restores them in the AI's reply.“I got tired of manually stripping emails or phone numbers or even api keys from my prompts — so I built a Chrome extension that does it automatically”
- additem.to — Tracks household items with photos, serial numbers, hierarchical locations, and NFC or QR tags for finding them.“Launched a home inventory app in March and still working on it every spare minute”
- Nimblist — Syncs shared shopping lists live across devices, auto-sorts items by aisle, and imports recipes from a URL or photo into the list.“I built a real-time app solo, I use it daily, and I have basically no users — how did you get your first ones?”
- Compartment — Installs on a VPS and runs many small apps in isolated Docker containers with HTTPS, resource limits, shared SSO login, centralized logs, and automated deploys.“Stop giving every AI side app its own hosting bill”