A Railway alternative for teams that outgrow one service
Railway and Buildfyio agree on the important thing: deploying an application should not require you to become an infrastructure engineer first. People compare the two once a project stops being a single service — a monorepo with three apps, a worker that has to share environment variables with the API, a set of domains to keep straight.
Buildfyio treats the repository as the unit. One project holds every app in it, and the things that differ per app — subdomain, custom domains, environment variables, resources — are set per app rather than by wiring separate services together.
What you get
- Git push to deploy. Connect a repository; every push to the production branch ships.
- Automatic framework detection. Next.js, Astro, Vite, Django, Rails, Go, and 25+ more are detected and built without configuration. Bring your own Dockerfile when you want control.
- Monorepos as a first-class case. pnpm, yarn and npm workspaces build from the repository root, so workspace dependencies resolve the way they do locally.
- Several apps from one repository. A web service, a worker, a static site and a cron job can share a repo, each with its own subdomain, custom domains, and environment variables.
- Custom domains with automatic HTTPS. Point DNS at the platform and certificates are issued and renewed for you.
- Background workers and cron. Long-running processes and scheduled jobs run alongside the web service, not on separate infrastructure you assemble yourself.
- Instant rollbacks. Previous releases stay ready; rolling back is one action, not a rebuild.
- Build Doctor. When a build fails you get the cause and a suggested fix, instead of a wall of log output to read yourself.
- Analytics with no snippet. Cookieless pageviews, visitors and Core Web Vitals for every deployed app, switched on by default.
Where it differs
Monorepos. Workspace repositories install from the root, so a package that depends on another with the workspace: protocol resolves exactly as it does on your machine. Each app still builds and deploys independently.
One project, many apps. Pushing once fans out to every app in the repository, so a shared schema change ships everywhere at the same time instead of leaving the dashboard on the old version until someone remembers.
Analytics included. Pageviews, visitors and Core Web Vitals are on by default for every deployed app, with no snippet to add and no cookie banner to justify.
Failures explained. A failed build produces a diagnosis and a suggested fix, which matters more than it sounds when the cause is a lockfile mismatch or an app that never bound its port.
Moving an existing project
Connect the same repository and deploy. Framework detection covers 25+ runtimes, and a Dockerfile in the repo is used as-is, so most projects need no new configuration file.
Bring environment variables across with a bulk .env paste, scoped to production or preview. Domains move last: verify DNS, let certificates issue, then switch — the previous deployment serves until you do.
Common questions
- Does it handle pnpm and Turborepo monorepos?
- Yes — pnpm, yarn and npm workspaces are supported, including Turborepo repositories. Installs run from the repository root so workspace dependencies resolve correctly.
- Can several apps share one repository?
- Yes. Each gets its own subdomain, custom domains, environment variables and deploy history, while living in the same project.
- Are preview deployments included?
- Yes, on pull requests and non-production branches, with environment variables scoped to the preview target.
- What does it cost?
- Hobby is free with no card. Paid plans start at $10/month — the pricing page lists what each tier includes.
Try it on a real project
Connect a repository and deploy it. The Hobby plan is free, and nothing about the first deploy requires a card.