Server Compass: Why I Built a Desktop App to Turn Any $5 VPS Into My Own PaaS
I was tired of paying $20+/month for Vercel and Railway, but also tired of self-hosted panels eating 2GB of RAM on my $5 VPS. So I built Server Compass — a desktop app that connects to any VPS over SSH and gives you the full power of a managed PaaS, with zero server overhead and one-time pricing.
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