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Executive Summary

Many small engineering teams and independent makers find deploying side projects and micro-SaaS painful: CI pipelines, preview environments, and provider-specific infra still take hours to configure or are outsourced to expensive platform tiers, a problem that affects an estimated 2.0 million developer teams and underpins a $6.0B addressable market (calculated at $3K ACV). The burden is greatest for teams of 1–5 engineers and solo founders who value speed and low cognitive overhead over maximal flexibility. You could build an opinionated deploy platform that delivers one-click builds, per-PR preview environments, and auto-provisioned infra across cloud and edge providers, augmented by AI-assisted generation of CI and infra configs to get projects running in minutes. The product would emphasize standard deployment templates, a tiny onboarding flow for indie developers, and pricing tiers calibrated for low-cost, high-volume adoption rather than enterprise customization. This is an attractive moment: the market scores high on opportunity (market score 88/100, revenue potential 86/100) and broader trends—serverless and edge computing lowering the infra surface, AI-assisted dev tools reducing setup time, and a rise in indie developers and micro-SaaS—make opinionated, low-friction platforms viable at scale. Those trends materially lower the engineering cost to support opinionated defaults and increase the total number of addressable small projects. You can differentiate by combining strict, well-documented defaults with cross-provider portability and strong automation (AI templates + runtime optimizations) to reduce time-to-first-preview to minutes. Strengths include clear product-market fit and a large pool of small buyers, while realistic challenges are medium competition from incumbents, the complexity of maintaining provider integrations, and the need to balance opinionation with extensibility to avoid alienating power users.

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Deploying small projects is painful — one-click builds, previews & infra

Executive Summary

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Deploying small projects is painful — one-click builds, previews & infra

Executive Summary

Market Validation

Market Opportunity

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