A Vibe Coder’s Guide to Deployment using a PaaS

A practical, no-nonsense guide to getting your vibe-coded app live with a PaaS, without falling into DevOps rabbit holes. Vibe coding is about momentum. You open your editor, prompt an AI, stitch pieces together, and suddenly you have something that works. Maybe it’s messy. Maybe the architecture is not perfect. But it’s alive, and that’s the point. Then comes deployment. This is where the vibe usually dies. Suddenly, you’re reading about containers, load balancers, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure diagrams, and networking concepts you never asked for. You wanted to ship a thing. Instead, you’re learning accidental DevOps. The truth is simple. Most vibe-coded apps don’t need complex infrastructure. They just need a clean path from code → live URL. That’s where a Platform-as-a-Service fits in. It removes the infrastructure ceremony and lets deployment feel like a natural extension of building. This guide is not about perfect production architecture. It’s about shipping fast without losin