Railway
How vibe coders and indie builders use Railway: 178 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
178
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.7%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -32%
Add-ons built for it
0
Share of stated stacks, per week
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Latest projects built with Railway
- Wisenum — Checks lottery numbers against past draws and estimates how many other people play the same numbers, suggesting less popular alternatives.“I built a lottery number checker that can't predict anything, on purpose”
- MIDDLE — Provides coaching conversations over text messages, with an AI coach responding in the user's text thread.“I built MIDDLE — a coaching app that works entirely through text messages”
- RouteMap — Draws all of a user's recorded Strava routes on a single world map with favourites, hidden routes and collections.“Dad side-project... I built an app that puts every Strava route you've ever recorded on one map (iOS + Android)”
- I built a small tool that turns… — Exports posts and comments from a chosen subreddit to CSV files for analysis.“I built a small tool that turns Reddit discussions into CSV files”
- ForexRecap — Syncs OANDA trade history automatically and reports win rate, average win and loss, breakeven win rate, P/L by session, instrument and day of week, and open risk.“Built a free trading journal that auto-syncs with OANDA — no spreadsheets, no CSV exports”
- Couplonia — Hosts a collection of two-player and solo browser games, with private rooms for couples and a bot opponent at three difficulty levels.“I built a free two-player games site for couples and solo. 273 games, no ads. Feedback welcome”
- PriceRunJA — Scrapes supermarket websites weekly and lets users compare grocery prices side by side across stores.“I built a grocery price comparison site for Jamaica — comparing prices across 5 supermarkets with automated scraping”
- $1 Roast — Scores a landing page, CV or LinkedIn profile out of 100 and gives three specific critiques with fixes for a $1 fee.“I built a site that roasts your landing page, CV or LinkedIn”
- Tennis Career Sim — Simulates a full pro tennis career week by week, where training, scheduling and fatigue decisions drive player skill and ranking.“Built a full pro tennis career sim as a solo hobby project (Python, browser-based) - live at topseed.gg”
- Help me pick a mascot for my… — Helps developers write and edit code from a terminal assistant, with a VS Code version planned.“Help me pick a mascot for my coding assistant : 7 pixel art butterflies”
- BlindSpread — Lets users guess NFL point spreads and totals before the Vegas line is revealed, then scores how close their guesses were.“I made BlindSpread, guess NFL spreads blind before the Vegas line shows up”
- SafeRow — Holds buyer funds in a Tron USDT escrow for digital marketing deals and releases them after delivery confirmation, timeout, or dispute decision.“I built SafeRow after losing 3000 USDT in a digital marketing deal”
- Among Us Jev — Plays Among Us in real time by having an LLM planner direct AI agents that control crewmates through the game.“Realtime Among Us Agents with Jev”
- I made fantasy sports for music — Runs private fantasy sports leagues where friends draft music artists and score points from weekly stream counts.“I made fantasy sports for music — private leagues, draft artists, 1 stream = 1 point”
- WARSCAPE — Simulates an alternate-history conflict between two chosen countries or alliances day by day on an interactive map, based on configurable assumptions.“I built a geopolitical conflict simulator, would you actually use something like this?”
Pitched as alternatives to Railway
- Orkera — Deploys apps built by coding agents to public URLs by building them from a Dockerfile and hosting them.“I built a tool that lets Claude Code or Codex deploy the app it just built”
- Openship — Deploys web projects from GitHub or local folders to a user's own server, with automatic HTTPS, a self-hosted mail server, and Docker-based services.“What I Learned Trying Different Hosting Platforms (And What Worked for Me)”
- Peon.sh — Deploys and hosts web applications on a user's own servers or a cloud version, as an open source alternative to Vercel, Railway and Heroku.“First customer on my PaaS Startup Peon.sh”
- Layerbase — Hosts serverless and managed databases across 18 engines, with database branching.“Serverless and Managed Databases (with branching) for 18 Engines”
- Stackdome — Lets users deploy apps from GitHub onto self-hosted Kubernetes infrastructure with a Railway/Render-style interface, including managed databases, preview environments and rollbacks.“Stackdome - An opensource self-hosted Railway/Render-style platform”
- Homebox — Hosts and deploys GitHub-connected apps from a local machine, with Cloudflare domains and automatic deploys on push.“Wondering if you can host your apps for free? Now you can”
- DeployCrate — Provisions and manages application deployments, updates, logs and health checks on self-owned virtual private servers.“I wanted Heroku like infrastructure on VPS I own”
- DooCloud — Generates a live backend API from a written schema, with no Docker, auth setup, or manual deployment.“did I build something nobody needs?”