Hostess demo

Ship a full stack product in one config file.

This YC demo shows a production-grade Next.js dashboard, a FastAPI service, and managed Postgres + Redis. Hostess wires everything together, generates URLs, and gives you framework-aware dashboards out of the box.

Deployment health

100%

Autoscaled, no alerts

Deploy time

82s

Built with cache hits

Request latency

18ms

FastAPI + Redis

Data freshness

Live

Postgres operator

Services

The four core services in this demo deployment.

FrontendHealthy

Next.js

Design-forward dashboard UI

https://yc-demo-frontend-jiidlzxs.hostess-local.run

APIHealthy

FastAPI

Static metrics + env awareness

https://yc-demo-api-bj1swank.hostess-local.run

DatabaseHealthy

Postgres

Operator-managed, auto-credentialed

postgresql://***@yc-demo-database-e2xayvvb.pg.hostess-local.run:5432/database

CacheHealthy

Redis

Low-latency workload accelerator

redis://***@yc-demo-redis-rkkbvdfc.rd.hostess-local.run:6379/0

Auto-generated URLs

Hostess injects deployment-ready URLs at runtime.

Frontendhttps://yc-demo-frontend-jiidlzxs.hostess-local.run

API stablehttps://yc-demo-api-bj1swank.hostess-local.run

API deploymenthttps://yc-demo-api-49cf87b.hostess-local.run

Postgrespostgresql://***@yc-demo-database-e2xayvvb.pg.hostess-local.run:5432/database

Redisredis://***@yc-demo-redis-rkkbvdfc.rd.hostess-local.run:6379/0

hostess.yml in action

Minimal config that powers the full deployment.

version: "1.0"
name: yc-demo
services:
  frontend:
    type: nextjs
    env:
      NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL: ${api.external_url}
  api:
    type: fastapi
    env:
      POSTGRES_URL: ${database.url}
      REDIS_URL: ${redis.url}
  database:
    type: postgres
  redis:
    type: redis

Launch activity

Pre-populated, demo-ready timeline.

Next.js deployed to stable URL2m agoAutopilot

FastAPI release promoted6m agoAutopilot

Postgres credentials rotated12m agoAutopilot

Redis snapshots finalized18m agoAutopilot

Hostess Studio dashboards

Each service type ships with a tailored dashboard view.

Next.js insights

Service-specific metrics, logs, and rollouts.

FastAPI runtime

Service-specific metrics, logs, and rollouts.

Postgres operator

Service-specific metrics, logs, and rollouts.

Redis cache

Service-specific metrics, logs, and rollouts.