Disco
Shares rank 11 of 19 deployment tools by recommenders
Open-source platform for running your own PaaS, with Docker-based deployments that stay portable and avoid requiring VMs. People praise its simple CLI and web UI.
Open-source platform for running your own PaaS, with Docker-based deployments that stay portable and avoid requiring VMs. People praise its simple CLI and web UI.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Self-run PaaS for your own apps
“running a simple open-source project [1] on top of one is all you need to do to move on with your day”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud” “a project we've been working on for a few years which lets you run your own PaaS”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)” Low-effort hosting without VMs
“running a simple open-source project [1] on top of one is all you need to do to move on with your day”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud” “avoids requiring VMs while still allowing the ergonomics of cloud services.”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack”
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See all 19 deployment tools, rankedWhat people said
7 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Disco deployments are just Docker images, so they're fully portable and cloud/infra agnostic.”
“a project we've been working on for a few years which lets you run your own PaaS”
“the idea with database management is good”
“Has a simple CLI and web UI without overwhelming configuration.”
“running a simple open-source project [1] on top of one is all you need to do to move on with your day”
“avoids requiring VMs while still allowing the ergonomics of cloud services.”
“Disco and Slack have been my go-to for some time”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.