Deploy and Host Flone on Railway

Flone is a small, open-source Kanban board for teams. Organizations hold projects, projects hold boards, and tickets carry Markdown, comments, @mentions, image attachments, reminders and recurring schedules. It also ships an MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or any MCP client can read and update your boards through the same permission checks as the web app.

About Hosting Flone

Flone is one Next.js app and one PostgreSQL database. The app builds from the repository's Dockerfile and applies database migrations on every start, so there is no separate migration step. A small cron service calls the app every five minutes to send reminders and create recurring tickets. Email is required, because new accounts confirm their address before signing in: point it at any SMTP server, or set a Resend API key. Image attachments are optional and work with any private S3-compatible bucket.

Common Use Cases

A private, self-hosted task board for a small team or agency
Letting an AI assistant triage, file and update tickets over MCP
Replacing a paid SaaS tracker with one you own, under the AGPL

Dependencies for Flone Hosting

PostgreSQL (included in this template)
An SMTP server or a Resend account, for confirmation and notification emails

Deployment Dependencies

Source code: https://github.com/vedus-in/flone
Self-hosting guide: https://github.com/vedus-in/flone#self-hosting-with-docker
MCP setup: https://github.com/vedus-in/flone#mcp-access

Implementation Details

The first account to register becomes the site administrator, and can close public registration from /admin. Every read and write is scoped to its organization inside the database query itself, so one tenant can never see another's data.

Why Deploy Flone 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 Flone 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.