IndieFoundersIFbetaIndieFoundersIFbetaA staff engineer at GitLab who has spent years building Stormkit on the side: a self-hostable Vercel and Netlify alternative, now open source.
✓ Confirmed by Savas VedovaShares an early post about the developer tool he has built, the seed of what becomes Stormkit.
Runs an AMA, introducing himself as a self-taught engineer who studied Political Science.
Joins GitLab as a frontend engineer (later Staff) and keeps building Stormkit nights and weekends, rather than quitting to go all-in on it.
Starts a Twitter community for indie founders, the seed of what becomes IndieFounders.
Stormkit grows past static hosting, adding first-class support for building backends.
Ships persistent Volumes and a built-in Mailer, turning Stormkit into a place to run whole apps, not just front ends.
Publishes a technical deep dive on running hundreds of websites on Stormkit's own infrastructure.
Open-sources Stormkit, a self-hostable Vercel alternative he had wanted to open up for years.
Adds managed database integration, giving each environment its own isolated Postgres.
Migrates Stormkit's whole platform from AWS to Hetzner without downtime.
Ships ARM-compatible images, making self-hosted Stormkit run anywhere from Graviton to Apple Silicon.