Side Projects

Your side project deserves a home

Deploy your weekend build on Friday. Pay nothing until someone visits. Free tier with a managed database, custom domains, and daily backups. No credit card required.

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Free tier cost
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While idle
1.5s
Cold start
0
Credit cards needed

Free Tier, No Strings

One service and one database for free. No credit card required. Just sign up and deploy.

Scale to Zero

Your app sleeps when nobody's using it and wakes instantly on the next request. Idle costs: zero.

Pennies When Active

Per-second billing when your app is awake. A side project with light traffic costs less than a coffee.

Managed Database Included

PostgreSQL or MySQL on the free tier. Automatic backups, connection pooling, and SSL out of the box.

Custom Domains & SSL

Point your domain and get a TLS certificate automatically. Or use your free smllapp.com subdomain.

Daily Backups

Your data is backed up daily with 7-day retention on the free tier. Sleep easy.

Deploy in under a minute

Push a Dockerfile and you're live. Your app gets a free smllapp.com subdomain, automatic SSL, and scale-to-zero enabled by default. Perfect for portfolio sites, API experiments, Discord bots, and personal tools.

  • Any Dockerfile — just push and deploy
  • Free subdomain or bring your own domain
  • Scale-to-zero on by default
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Host it. Forget about it. Pay almost nothing.

Scale-to-zero means your app sleeps when there's no traffic and wakes in under 2 seconds when a request arrives. A side project with a few visitors a day costs less than a penny.

  • Sleeps automatically after 5 minutes of idle
  • Per-second billing — only pay for active time
  • Sub-2-second cold starts
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Perfect for

Whatever you're building on the side, it belongs here.

Portfolio sitesFree tier
API experimentsFree tier
Discord / Slack botsFree tier
Personal tools & dashboardsFree tier
Learning projectsFree tier

Ship your side project today

Free tier includes 1 service and 1 database. Scale-to-zero by default. No credit card required.

Side Project Hosting — Free Tier, Scale-to-Zero, No Credit Card | SMLL.io