Ship your first app to production without pulling out a credit card
You want to put a full first app online (frontend, backend, database, CI) without paying a cent to start. Every layer of this stack has a free tier: Next.js on [Vercel](item:vercel) for the front, an agent backend driven by [LangGraph](item:langgraph), [PostgreSQL](item:postgresql) for the database, [Docker](item:docker) to freeze it all. You learn the full production chain with your wallet shut.
Why
This stack gets sold to you as "100% free". True at the start, false the moment you get traffic. The word matters. The free tier is not a production plan: it is a starting tier. As long as nobody uses your app, you pay nothing. The day it takes off, every free tier flips into a bill: Vercel bandwidth past the quota, the AWS credit that eventually runs dry, the PostgreSQL storage that overruns the limit. The real gift is not "running for free at scale", it is starting without a credit card and validating an idea before spending a cent. It is also a genuine dev stack, not no-code. FastAPI,…
When
Phase: you want to put your very first app online (or your first app with a real AI backend), you are new to deployment, and you refuse to commit any spend before validating. Audience: dev, student, indie who can code but has never shipped to production. ✅ You know it's your kit when You can code but have never deployed: you want to learn the full chain (front, back, database, CI, monitoring),…
Tools included
- Nextjs
- Vercel
- Langgraph
- Postgresql
- Docker