Render
How vibe coders and indie builders use Render: 84 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
84
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.4%
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
- Vercel 25
- Python 19
- FastAPI 17
- PostgreSQL 17
- Node.js 16
- React 16
- Supabase 16
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 11
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Render
- CivicLens AI — Answers plain-English questions about a city's adopted budget using retrieved passages from that city's official budget book, with page citations.“I built CivicLens AI — ask a city’s official budget book questions in plain English”
- Collaboranker — Combines multiple users' weekly sports team rankings into one collaborative power ranking with season history.“I made a sports power rankings website that crowdsources your indivdual opinion into one collaborative ranking”
- Doorlog — Logs team decisions from Slack with an owner, rationale, reversibility tag, and audit-trailed reversal.“Built a Slack bot to stop "wait, why did we decide that?" — looking for feedback”
- tidycatalog — Scores a Shopify store's product data for how well AI shopping assistants can read it and lists plain-English fixes.“I built a free checker that shows how ChatGPT & AI shopping assistants see a Shopify store”
- LabelLens — Scans photos of food labels to list ingredients, give a 1-10 health score, and flag additives and allergens.“I fell into the classic developer trap: spent months perfecting an AI SaaS and ranked #10 on Product Hunt... with 0 marketing plan. Looking to pass it on.”
- Photography Assist — Analyzes uploaded photos' EXIF settings and detected scene objects to give feedback on camera settings and composition.“Photography Assist”
- ApexSovereign — Brokers compute for LLM inference and API workloads, handling metering, user provisioning, and billing through a gateway.“ApexSovereign – Built an autonomous compute brokerage platform with double-entry ledgering”
- Domain Intel API — Returns branding, social links, DNS records, SSL status and headers for a domain in one API call.“I built a fast domain enrichment API to get logos, metadata, DNS & social links in one call (Node.js + Cheerio + SQLite)”
- Storewake — Gives AI assistants access to an iOS app's App Store rankings, metadata, revenue, subscriptions and Apple Ads data through an MCP server.“Storewake - Connect your AI assistant to your app's rankings, revenue and Apple Ads data”
- India Banking, IFSC, PAN & GST Verification API — Looks up Indian bank IFSC codes and card BINs to report payment rail support, and checks PAN and GSTIN structure and checksums.“Built a lightweight, sub-millisecond Indian Banking Rails (UPI/ACH/IFSC) lookup service in Python FastAPI”
- TYPE A WORD — Lets players chain English words in a browser word game where each word must start with the last letter of the previous one.“TYPE A WORD - browser word game I've built solo in high school, 10 visitors a day and finally trying to fix that”
- I built a journal that reads… — Reads short daily journal entries and surfaces recurring patterns in mood-linked themes, suggesting one small change to try.“I built a journal that reads your entries back and tells you what keeps repeating”
- Rep Builder — Builds a chess opening repertoire as a graph of positions and ranks which positions to study next by how often they occur in games.“Rep Builder — A chess repertoire trainer that helps you decide what to study next”
- AERIA — Lets people from different countries connect for language exchange, penpal correspondence and conversation.“I built an international social network in 3 days with AI. It's live, it's completely empty, and I need honest feedback”
- 2004 Facebook — Recreates the 2004 Facebook experience with university-email registration, profiles, friend requests, course joining, and people search.“Legecy or raw engineering with 2004 Facebook”
Pitched as alternatives to Render
- ObsdnHost — Runs Discord bots in always-on containers with a web control panel for console, files, and package installs.“Built a lightweight Discord bot host to avoid Heroku/Render idle limits — looking for beta testers/feedback”
- 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”
- ramp.sh — Deploys web apps and databases to a user's own VPS from a single config file, with TLS and no Docker.“I built a VPS deploy platform where the whole setup is one yaml”
- 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”
- StackGrid — Deploys a web app's database, servers, static site, and domain DNS into the user's own DigitalOcean, AWS, and Cloudflare accounts.“I'll give 20 people lifetime access to StackGrid. Deploys your full stack (DB + app + site + domain) to your own DO/CF accounts”