If you are a solo developer or an indie hacker, you probably suffer from "Shiny Object Syndrome." You have 10 different ideas, and you want to launch all of them.

In the old days, launching an MVP was expensive. You used Heroku or Render. You paid $7 for the web server, $9 for the database, and $5 for Redis. That is $21 per app. If you have 5 side projects, you are paying over $100 a month just to host apps that might have zero active users.

This "PaaS Tax" kills innovation. It makes you afraid to launch new things.

But in 2026, with the release of Kamal 2 , you don't need a Platform-as-a-Service anymore.…