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H. Indie & SaaS founders

Side-project container deploy

An indie hacker ships a Dockerized app to a subdomain with one HTTP call — no DevOps account, no Helm chart, no IaC.

Prompt for any LLM (no setup needed)

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — no MCP, no API key, no install:

Read https://instanode.dev/llms.txt for the API.

I want to: an indie hacker ships a Dockerized app to a subdomain with one HTTP call — no DevOps account, no Helm chart, no IaC.

Write a complete runnable script (bash + whatever language fits) that: - Provisions the services I need (container deploy) from instanode.dev - Does the work above end-to-end - Prints expected output at each step - Tells me how to claim the resources at the end if I want to keep them past 24 hours

Use real curl commands against api.instanode.dev. Quote the actual response shapes from llms.txt. ```

Sample agent prompt

I have a Dockerized Go app in this repo. Ship it to a public subdomain via instanode.dev /deploy/new. No need for a Render or Fly account — just give me a URL I can hit from anywhere, with HTTPS, in under 60 seconds.

Steps to follow

  • Step 1: Build and push the image.

``bash docker build -t ghcr.io/me/sideproject:v1 . docker push ghcr.io/me/sideproject:v1 ``

  • Step 2: Deploy via one HTTP call.

``bash curl -X POST https://api.instanode.dev/deploy/new \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $INSTANODE_TOKEN" \ -F "name=my-side-project" \ -F "image=ghcr.io/me/sideproject:v1" \ -F "port=8080" \ -F "subdomain=my-thing" \ -F "env.PORT=8080" ``

  • Step 3: Hit the returned URL.

``bash curl https://my-thing.instanode.dev/healthz ``

  • Step 4: Tail logs while you debug.

``bash curl -N "https://api.instanode.dev/deploy/$TOKEN/logs?follow=1" ``

  • Step 5: When you push v2, redeploy by hitting /deploy/new with the new image tag — old containers drain automatically.

Why this works on instanode.dev

No cloud account, no DNS records, no TLS cert dance. The platform issues a *.instanode.dev subdomain with HTTPS at deploy time. Hobby tier ($9/mo) gives one small app with persistent disk; pro lifts it to five.