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CI/CD tool for hackathons - One command. Hackathon project deployed.
While working at GoSquad, I watched my co-developer spend time building a custom deployment pipeline for our VPS. It was a real engineering problem worth solving. But I was curious about the simpler version of the same idea - what's the minimum viable CI/CD that would actually help someone at a hackathon?
The pain is real: you're 4 hours from the deadline, your project works locally, and you're wrestling with Render's dashboard or trying to remember Vercel's config flags. Forge came from applying Occam's razor to deployment - strip everything that isn't essential, and ship the rest as a single command. forge deploy detects your stack, deploys your backend to Render and your frontend to Vercel, and hands you the URLs. That's the whole product.
The pain is real: you're 4 hours from the deadline, your project works locally, and you're wrestling with Render's dashboard or trying to remember Vercel's config flags. Forge came from applying Occam's razor to deployment - strip everything that isn't essential, and ship the rest as a single command. forge deploy detects your stack, deploys your backend to Render and your frontend to Vercel, and hands you the URLs. That's the whole product.