Quick start

CloudHike.dev gives every project its own backend services. You click Deploy, and a few seconds later you have a connection string or API key to paste into your app. There are no servers to manage.

Go to the sign-up page and register with your email and a password. New accounts get $10 of free credits that last 90 days, which is enough to try every service. Free credits are given once per inbox.

Services are paid for from credits by the hour. See Plans, limits and billing for what each one costs.

A project is one app's backend. Everything you deploy lives inside it and is scoped to it, so one project can never reach another.

1. Open the dashboard and click New project.
2. Give it a name such as my-shop. The name becomes the project's slug.
3. Optional: describe what you are building. If AI setup is switched on for your installation, CloudHike.dev suggests which services to deploy. You can always change this later.

Open the project. The Services tab has one card per service. Click Deploy on the ones your app needs. The card shows Updating while it works and the page refreshes by itself every two seconds.

• Postgres is ready in a few seconds.
• Auth keeps its users in your project's Postgres, so deploy Postgres first.
• Storage creates a private bucket and a key that can only use that bucket.
• Redis starts an instance with a password and, when TLS is on, a rediss:// address.

There are three ways to get the connection details into your app. Pick whichever you like.

• Environment tab: click Reveal to see every value, or Copy as .env to copy a ready-made file.
• Card buttons: each service card has its own Reveal and Copy buttons.
• Overview tab, Quick Start with AI: copy one prompt and let an AI coding agent download the .env and wire the services in for you. See Build with AI.

A copied .env file looks like this. Only the services you deployed appear:

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://u_abc123:password@db.example.com:15432/app?sslmode=require
AUTH_URL=https://example.com/api/auth-service/my-shop
AUTH_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=pk_...
AUTH_SECRET_KEY=sk_...
S3_ENDPOINT=https://s3.example.com
S3_REGION=us-east-1
S3_BUCKET=proj-my-shop
S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...
S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
REDIS_URL=rediss://:password@db.example.com:16379

Save the values in your app's env file (.env.local for Next.js, .env for most others) and connect. For example, Postgres from Node.js:

import { Pool } from "pg";

export const pool = new Pool({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL });

const { rows } = await pool.query("select now()");
console.log(rows[0]);

Or try the connection string straight from a terminal:

psql "$DATABASE_URL" -c "select version();"

Each service has its own page with the details: Postgres, Auth, Storage and Redis.

• Open the database explorer to browse tables and run SQL (see Postgres).
• Upload a file in the storage browser (see Storage).
• Watch your credits on the Usage page and read about limits in Plans, limits and billing.
• Let an AI agent do the wiring with Build with AI.