---
title: "Deploy Beam"
description: "A simple message board for your organization or project"
category: "Blogs"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/beam
---

# Deploy Beam

A simple message board for your organization or project

**[Deploy Beam on Railway](https://railway.com/template/beam)**

- **Creator:** Faraz Patankar
- **Category:** Blogs
- **Total deploys:** 44

## Template content

### beam

- **Source:** https://github.com/planetscale/beam
- **Public domain:** Yes

### MySQL https://devicons.railway.app/i/mysql.svg

- **Image:** mysql:9
- **Start command:** `docker-entrypoint.sh mysqld --innodb-use-native-aio=0 --disable-log-bin --performance_schema=0`

## Documentation

## Overview

Beam is an simple tool from the folks at PlanetScale to write posts to share across an organization. Think of it like a lightweight internal blog. 

## Highlights

- Markdown-based editor with preview
- Image drag and drop
- Comments and likes
- Search
- Responsive layout with dark mode support
- Admin role for hiding posts

## Learn More

- [Introducing Beam](https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-beam)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/planetscale/beam)

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