Railway Has a Free API: Deploy Any App With One Click — Git Push Deploys, Built-In Databases, and $5 Free Credit Monthly

You want to deploy a side project. Vercel says "serverless only." AWS says "configure 47 services." Heroku says "$7/mo minimum." Railway says "connect your GitHub repo and push" — with $5/mo free credit that covers most hobby projects, built-in Postgres/Redis/MongoDB, and automatic deploys on every git push. What Railway Actually Does Railway is a deployment platform that detects your framework, builds your app, provisions databases, and deploys — all from a git push. No Dockerfile required (though it supports them). No YAML configuration. Push code, get a running app with a public URL. Railway supports any language/framework: Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Java, PHP, .NET, Elixir. It auto-detects your runtime from package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, Cargo.toml, etc. Built-in database provisioning: Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB — one click each. Pricing: $5/mo free credit (enough for ~500 hours of a small service + a database). Pay-as-you-go after that. Quick Start # Install Ra