Built for apps that
do not arrive neatly packaged.
Jetpacked started with friends, messy AI-generated apps, and the same deployment problems showing up again and again.
Friends kept asking me to deploy the weird apps.
Thomas Plat
Web developer for 10+ years. Founder of Jetpacked.
I have been building for the web for more than ten years. I started before frontend frameworks became the default, before mobile-first was a given, and long before people could ask an LLM to generate a full-stack app over lunch.
When LLMs became good enough to write real applications, friends started coming to me with projects they had vibe-coded. The apps worked locally. They had real ideas behind them. But getting them online was another story.
Some had multiple database packages installed. Some had generated Dockerfiles that mixed Apache, Nginx, and whatever else the model had seen in training. Some had ambiguous build and start commands. Some were not wrong exactly; they were just hard to reason about.
I kept helping people untangle those deployments. Eventually it became obvious that the problem was not one broken project. It was a new category of project.
Jetpacked started there: not as a generic hosting platform, but as a deployment platform for apps that need a little more understanding before they can run in production.
Don't take my word for it.
Hear it from people shipping.
I moved from Render to Jetpacked because it gets out of the way. I need to ship work for clients, not lose time in deployment workflows, and Jetpacked makes deploying my apps feel simple and frictionless.
Edgar M.
Director of WELLEMACHEN Simple on the surface.
Serious underneath.
Jetpacked is built for solo founders, vibe coders, indie hackers, and people who just want to get their app online without learning a week of DevOps first.
But I do not want experienced developers or agencies to mistake that simplicity for a toy. The UI is meant to feel calm. The infrastructure behind it is not shallow.
- Ephemeral build servers spin up for deployments, so build work does not drain deployment servers.
- Deployment servers are provisioned through an Ansible-powered workflow.
- Application logs run through Grafana and Loki, the standard stack many teams already trust.
- The deployment pipeline analyzes repositories, prepares runtime settings, and guides users when manual input is needed.
Deployment should not be where people feel locked out of their own project.
I completed vocational training in Germany as an application developer in 2014 and have worked as a developer since then. I started professionally as a backend developer, including work on large infrastructure for one of Germany's leading drugstore chains.
In 2019 I shifted into frontend development, but I never stopped building full-stack projects on the side. Jetpacked sits right at that intersection for me: frontend experience, backend experience, infrastructure scars, and the stubborn desire to make my own ideas real.
I like building tools that make people feel capable. Development has changed. Many people can now create software without fully knowing the stack an LLM assembled for them. That is exciting, but current PaaS products still often expect users to bring DevOps knowledge with them.
Jetpacked should make deployment feel seamless where it can, and guided where manual work is still required.
A place for people who feel left alone by deployment platforms.
If your app is clean and conventional, great. Jetpacked should deploy it quickly.
If it is messy, AI-generated, half-standard, or full of strange decisions, Jetpacked should still try to understand it.
And if that still does not solve it, join the Discord, complain, ask for help, and I will help personally.