Deploy and Host Brightbean-studio on Railway

Brightbean-studio is an open-source, self-hostable social media management platform for creators, agencies, and small businesses. Schedule, publish, approve, and monitor content across 10+ social platforms with no per-seat, per-channel, or per-workspace limits. It's a free alternative to tools like Sendible, SocialPilot, and ContentStudio.

About Hosting Brightbean-studio

Brightbean-studio is a Django app that needs three things: a web process, a background worker for scheduled publishing and task processing, and a PostgreSQL database. Railway's managed PostgreSQL works out of the box with the app's DATABASE_URL-based configuration.

Common Use Cases

Schedule and auto-publish content across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Google Business Profile, and Mastodon from one dashboard
Run multi-step approval workflows for agency teams and clients, with a passwordless client portal for external reviewers
Monitor a unified social inbox for comments, mentions, DMs, and reviews across all connected platforms

Dependencies for brightbean-studio Hosting

PostgreSQL 16+ (provisioned as a Railway service)
S3-compatible object storage for media uploads (Cloudflare R2, AWS S3, or similar)

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Web: Runs Django via Gunicorn with migrations on startup
Worker: Runs python manage.py process_tasks for scheduled publishing, notifications, and media processing

Why Deploy brightbean-studio 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 brightbean-studio 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.