Railway Has a Free Deployment Platform — From Git Push to Production in Seconds

Heroku's free tier is gone. Railway's free tier gives you $5/month of resources, auto-deploys from GitHub, and doesn't sleep your app. What is Railway? Railway is a cloud platform that deploys your code from a GitHub repo. Push to main, and your app is live — with databases, cron jobs, and environment management built in. Why Railway After Heroku 1. Deploy From GitHub # Connect repo → auto-deploy on push # OR use CLI railway login railway init railway up That's it. Railway detects your framework (Next.js, Express, Django, Rails, Go, Rust) and builds automatically. 2. One-Click Databases # Add PostgreSQL railway add postgresql # Add Redis railway add redis # Add MongoDB railway add mongodb # Connection strings auto-injected as env vars # DATABASE_URL, REDIS_URL — available in your app 3. Environment Management # Production railway environment production # Staging (separate database, separate resources) railway environment staging # Preview (auto-created per PR) # Each PR gets its own de