Pushify is now open source

Today the entire Pushify platform is open source under the MIT license. The API server, the dashboard, and the CLI are all on GitHub — the same code that runs pushify.dev.

What Pushify is

Pushify is a deployment platform for people who want to run applications on their own servers without doing DevOps by hand. You connect a GitHub repository, point Pushify at a VPS — one you already have, or one provisioned through the platform — and every git push builds your app in Docker and puts it live behind HTTPS with a zero-downtime cutover.

Around that core there's a lot of platform: managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB with scheduled backups and a web studio; PR preview deployments; cron jobs; persistent volumes; worker processes; log search; health checks; a marketplace of one-click apps like Grafana, n8n, and WordPress; and a CLI.

What's in the repos

• pushify_backend — the API server. Hono + Drizzle ORM on PostgreSQL, BullMQ on Redis for job queues. Everything that touches your servers goes over SSH — there's no agent daemon to install or keep updated on your machines.
• pushify_frontend — the dashboard and this website. Next.js 15, TailwindCSS v4.
• pushify_cli — the CLI, published on npm as pushify-cli. Device-flow login, then pushify deploy from any project directory.

Self-host it in one command

The whole control plane — dashboard, API, worker, PostgreSQL, Redis — runs on your own hardware with one command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pushifydev/pushify_backend/master/selfhost/install.sh | bash

It's Docker Compose under the hood, and the self-hosting guide covers configuration, upgrades, and how the pieces fit together. The control plane deploys applications to servers you attach over SSH — which can be the same machine or any other VPS.

Why open source

Three honest reasons.

First, trust. A platform that holds SSH access to your servers should be inspectable. "Read the code" is a better answer than "trust us" — for security researchers, for teams with compliance requirements, and for anyone who's been burned by a platform pivoting or shutting down.

Second, no lock-in has to mean no lock-in. If Pushify the company disappeared tomorrow, your deployment platform shouldn't. Self-hosting the control plane makes that promise real instead of rhetorical.

Third, the products in this space that we respect — the ones with real communities — are open. We'd rather compete on execution than on secrecy.

The hosted version

If you don't want to run the control plane yourself, the hosted version at pushify.dev is the same code with the ops handled for you. The free tier lets you connect one of your own servers — so you can deploy real apps without paying anything. Paid plans start at $15/month and add managed Hetzner servers at flat monthly prices, more projects, and previews.

What's next

Pushify is in beta and built by a very small team, which means feedback moves the roadmap quickly. If you try it — hosted or self-hosted — and something breaks or feels wrong, open an issue. If you read the code and see something you'd do differently, we genuinely want the pull request.

And if the project is useful to you, a star on GitHub helps more than you'd think.