Show HN: Pack.sh – Self-host single-file apps
pack.shI’m working on pack.sh, a simple way to deploy apps to your own server.
The goal is to bring back the old zeit now feeling: run one command in a project and get a live URL, but self-hosted.
Instead of managing Node versions or different runtimes on the server, pack.sh uses single-file executables. Build once, upload one file, run it.
This keeps server setup pretty minimal, and makes it easy to run many small apps on a cheap VPS.
Feedback welcome. Why not Dokku, Coolify, or CapRover? Those are broader self-hosted platforms. They build apps with Dockerfiles or Buildpacks and run them in containers. pack is intentionally smaller. It builds your app into a single-file executable, deploys it to your server, gives each deployment a persistent HTTPS URL, and handles ports, routing, and inactive deployments