You came here to ship,
not to configure Postgres.

Every developer who runs their own stack knows the ritual. You start a new project. It needs Postgres. You spend the first afternoon not building the project: you are configuring the database.

Connection pooling. max_connections tuned to the app's concurrency model. shared_buffers set to something better than the default 128 MB that no production workload should use. WAL settings. Backup schedule. Then Redis. Then you wire them together. Then something breaks at 2am and you're reading the Postgres mailing list about checkpoint_completion_target.

This is not engineering. It is ops tax — repeated work that every senior DevOps engineer has already done and written down somewhere, except not for you, specifically, for your app, today.

Launchfile covers 113+ open-source apps: analytics, databases, monitoring, media servers, developer tools. Every entry in that catalog ships with production-tested configuration. The Postgres settings are tuned for the specific access pattern of the app being deployed. Service dependencies are wired automatically. When Plausible needs both Postgres and ClickHouse, you don't wire them: Launchfile does.

Tools like Coolify are genuinely useful. They simplify raw Docker. But Coolify still hands you the configuration work: you manage the host it runs on, you configure each app yourself, you keep everything updated as upstream apps change. Coolify gives you a working container. The ops knowledge is still yours to apply.

Launchfile is the ops knowledge pre-applied. At $9/month you are not paying for software: you are paying for the afternoons you won't spend on database config, the 2am pages you won't receive, and the weekend you'll spend on the actual project instead.

This tool is for solo developers and hobbyists who know enough to run a server and have decided their time is worth more than the ops work. If you want full control over every config knob, Coolify is an honest choice and we'll say so plainly. If you want the apps running and the config handled, that's what Launchfile is for.

One command. Everything else is handled.