Why We're Building TurboDeploy - The Problem with Cloud Deployment in 2026

Every developer has been there. You've built something — an app, a side project, maybe the MVP of your startup. It works on your machine. It runs beautifully in development. And now you need to put it on the internet. That's when the fun stops. If you go with AWS, you're suddenly drowning in a sea of IAM roles, VPCs, security groups, task definitions, load balancers, target groups and CloudFormation templates. You didn't sign up for a PhD in infrastructure, but here you are, three hours in, Googling "what is an ECS cluster" at 2 AM. If you go with a managed platform like Vercel, Railway or Render, the experience is beautiful. Connect your repo, click deploy and you're live. But this simplicity has a price. Literally. A few months later, your startup starts growing. And that $0/month hobby plan quietly becomes a $200/month, then a $500/month, then a "wait, why is my cloud bill higher than my rent?" situation. We've lived through both of these nightmares. And that's exactly why we're bui