Deploy and Host Anchor on Railway

Anchor is an offline-first, self-hostable note-taking application designed for speed, privacy, and simplicity. It features a rich text editor, custom tags, offline editing capabilities, and seamless synchronization across web and mobile devices, ensuring your notes are always accessible and secure.

About Hosting Anchor

Deploying Anchor on Railway provides a streamlined, one-click experience to get your secure note-taking backend up and running in minutes. Anchor is beautifully packaged as a single Docker container combining a Next.js frontend, a Nest.js API server, and an embedded PostgreSQL database handled dynamically out-of-the-box. This architecture allows the entire stack to run as a single Railway service without configuring external databases. Once deployed, all you need to do is attach a persistent volume to the /data directory to ensure your notebooks, attachments, and database survive container restarts, giving you a reliable personal knowledge base.

Common Use Cases

Secure, private personal knowledge management uncoupled from big tech platforms.
Collaborative note-taking and sharing for small teams or study groups.
Seamless cross-platform access to offline-first notes from desktop and mobile apps.

Dependencies for Anchor Hosting

A persistent Railway Volume (mounted to /data to persist embedded PostgreSQL data and local uploads).
A domain name (auto-generated by Railway) to connect external mobile apps securely.

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Anchor on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Anchor on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.