Where these 15 reports land
Build it0
Scope it3
Keep it12
Category report
Hosting
15 products ranked by how much of their useful core an AI coding agent can reproduce: 0 strong builds, 3 scoped builds, and 12 weak replacements.
How the score breaks down here
- Interface
- 47
- Core workflow
- 40
- Data access
- 40
- Operations
- 12
- Trust & safety
- 40
40/100 average buildability
Why people keep paying here
- scale infra15 of 15 reports
Reliability at the vendor's scale is an operations problem, not a prompt.
- execution polish3 of 15 reports
The last 20 percent is sync, migration fidelity, speed, and edge cases.
The typical achievable core in this category: script deployments, environments, and rollbacks for services you personally operate.
Scope it
Supabase Pro
The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a substantially larger project. For Supabase Pro, self-host a Postgres backend with auth, storage, and a small API surface. The hard boundary is managed postgres, backups, auth delivery, storage, edge functions, observability, and support, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Scope it
Vercel
You can deploy to a VPS or self-host PaaS, but Vercel's edge network, preview deployments, CI/CD, observability, and Next.js integration are the paid value.
Scope it
Netlify
Static hosting and functions are easy to assemble, but Netlify's value is Git-based deploys, previews, forms, redirects, edge functions, and managed platform reliability.
Keep it
Firebase Blaze
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Firebase Blaze, provide a local emulator-backed backend for one app without recreating Google's global services. The hard boundary is global database, auth, push, analytics, serverless, mobile sdks, and operations, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
Railway
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Railway, deploy a few trusted containers and databases on one user-owned host. The hard boundary is managed infrastructure, usage billing, database templates, networking, and developer experience, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
Cloudflare Workers
Do not mistake the interface for the product. Cloudflare Workers's durable value is infrastructure, uptime, operations, which a solo one-shot build cannot reproduce responsibly. The prompt therefore builds only the closest honest personal consolation tool.
Keep it
Convex
Do not mistake the interface for the product. Convex's durable value is infrastructure, uptime, operations, which a solo one-shot build cannot reproduce responsibly. The prompt therefore builds only the closest honest personal consolation tool.
Keep it
DigitalOcean App Platform
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For DigitalOcean App Platform, deploy a small containerized service with TLS, logs, and backups on one server. The hard boundary is managed builds, runtime, scaling, databases, networking, and support, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
Fly.io
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Fly.io, deploy one container on a self-owned host and expose operational limits clearly. The hard boundary is global edge compute, anycast networking, orchestration, volumes, and platform operations, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
Heroku
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Heroku, deploy one containerized app with logs and a managed reverse proxy on a user server. The hard boundary is managed runtime, add-ons, buildpacks, databases, support, and operational maturity, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
MongoDB Atlas
Do not mistake the interface for the product. MongoDB Atlas's durable value is infrastructure, uptime, operations, which a solo one-shot build cannot reproduce responsibly. The prompt therefore builds only the closest honest personal consolation tool.
Keep it
Neon
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Neon, operate one Postgres database with backups on a user-owned server. The hard boundary is serverless postgres architecture, branching, autoscaling, storage, and operational expertise, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
PlanetScale
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For PlanetScale, operate a small MySQL-compatible database with migrations and backups on one server. The hard boundary is vitess operations, branching, nonblocking schema workflow, scale, and support, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
Render
A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Render, deploy one containerized web service with automatic TLS and health checks. The hard boundary is managed runtime, databases, private networking, builds, scaling, and support, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.
Keep it
Turso
Do not mistake the interface for the product. Turso's durable value is infrastructure, uptime, operations, which a solo one-shot build cannot reproduce responsibly. The prompt therefore builds only the closest honest personal consolation tool.