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Show HN: Appwrite Sites - the open-source vercel alternative
Author : eldad_fux
Score : 43 points
Date : 2025-05-19 12:23 UTC (2 days ago)
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| eldad_fux wrote:
| A new Appwrite product that lets you deploy and host your
| websites and web apps right inside Appwrite. No more juggling
| services. No more gluing things together. No more multiple
| subscriptions. Just build, deploy, and go live. All in one place,
| and it's 100% open source, the kind that lets you (really) self-
| host and (really) own your data.
|
| Appwrite has always been about giving you the tools you need to
| build fast, secure, and modern apps. However, while Appwrite has
| always worked hard to deliver a great backend experience, one big
| piece was missing: web hosting.
|
| Until now, you had to rely on external platforms like Vercel or
| Netlify to get your web app live. That meant extra configs, more
| integrations, and one more invoice to worry about. With Sites,
| that gap is gone.
|
| The best part: Appwrite is a fully open-source platform to offer
| both frontend hosting and your entire backend. All under one
| roof. From static sites and SSR apps to databases,
| authentication, storage, messaging and serverless functions, you
| can now build, deploy, and scale your entire app stack using just
| Appwrite.
| ebenezerdon wrote:
| Really like the direction Appwrite is going with this. Having
| frontend hosting built into the same platform I already use for
| auth, DB, and functions just makes the whole dev workflow
| cleaner.
|
| No more jumping between dashboards or juggling too many
| subscriptions!
| hiatus wrote:
| Do you work at appwrite?
|
| https://github.com/ebenezerdon
| ebenezerdon wrote:
| Yes and open about it. You can check my other HN posts,
| including the last one about Appwrite Sites, where I
| mentioned I'm a team member:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027691
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| I also build with Appwrite, so I experience it as a user. You
| might have noticed some of my products on GitHub, including
| https://nextjob.work
| chrisweekly wrote:
| No, that's not being "open about it".
|
| You can't post a comment like "I really like the direction
| X is going with this" and fail to mention you're an
| employee IN THAT SAME COMMENT without violating HN
| guidelines.
| ellg wrote:
| Your previous comment was the absolute opposite of being
| open, honestly you saying this now makes me not want to go
| anywhere near this product fwiw.
| ebenezerdon wrote:
| Sorry it came off that way. Not my intention, and to be
| more direct, I'm not hiding it and do not wish to. Sorry
| again about that.
|
| Appwrite is fully open-source, which is a big reason I
| stand behind it.
|
| My role is to represent the developer community and
| surface their needs, not build the internals. So when I
| say I like where Appwrite is going, it's coming from that
| perspective.
|
| You can check my HN post about Appwrite Sites here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027691
|
| And just to circle back: Appwrite is fully open-source. I
| use it in my own products and experience it as a user:
| https://github.com/ebenezerdon
| hiatus wrote:
| Pretty scummy behavior for all of these people to comment without
| disclosing their affiliation with the company.
| tommica wrote:
| Thanks for keeping an eye on them - I've been interested in
| appwrite, but this botting behaviour is really turning me off
| from them
| cAtte_ wrote:
| what's with all the bots in the comments?
| hiatus wrote:
| They all have some affiliation with the company.
| redwood wrote:
| I for one have been tracking Appwrite since it launched and am
| not affiliated with the company. This is a tough segment to build
| a business in. It's crowded, and these kinds of opinionated
| abstractions are limiting once you want flexibility or scale.
| Still this is clearly a time in which people are looking for good
| open source options at this layer... Someone has to keep Supabase
| honest...
| eldad_fux wrote:
| Thanks for the kind words, this indeed is an exciting space to
| be in.
| rubenvanwyk wrote:
| I thought Coolify was the Open Source Vercel?
| eldad_fux wrote:
| Coolify is also a great product. Appwrite specifically would
| compare better with Firebase or Supabase, Appwrite Sites, our
| new addition to the stack is directly positioned as a
| Vercel/Netlify alternative
| navs wrote:
| This is the most overly positive and least critical HN submission
| I've ever seen
| chrisweekly wrote:
| @dang and HN mods - please help cull the bot / employee /
| astroturf comments dominating the comments here. Thanks!
|
| PS Appwrite devs - the comment spam footgun makes me sad, bc the
| stuff you're building actually looks worthwhile. IMHO Vercel
| jumped the shark not long after the "Zeit" name change, and
| alternative OSS infr / tooling like this deserves support.
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