Deploy and Host Openfront Collectibles with Railway

Openfront Collectibles is a self-hostable catalog and discovery application for unique physical specimens. Operators can organize inventory, condition, grading, provenance, and listing records, while collectors browse published items and follow merchant-owned detail handoffs. Collectible checkout, bidding, offers, payouts, and settlement are not launch-ready.

About Hosting Openfront Collectibles

This template provisions the application from its GitHub repository, PostgreSQL, and a private native Railway Bucket named Storage. The database starts empty; no demo records or reusable credentials are included. Initialize the application using the repository's onboarding instructions after deployment.

DATABASE_URL references Postgres and the five S3_* variables reference the Storage bucket. Generated per deployment: SESSION_SECRET.

The app gets a Railway-generated public domain. No custom domains are included.

Admin Dashboard

Manage collectible commerce, gift cards, regions, currencies, collectors, products, product categories, evidence, price lists, invoices, catalog, discounts through dedicated dashboard workspaces and permission-controlled data screens.

Storefront

Country-scoped storefront pages expose catalog browsing and collectible handoffs at /[countryCode]/collectibles/handoff/[listingId]. Public observation projections preserve evidence sources and review states rather than presenting provenance or grading as a software guarantee.

Catalog & Specimens

Separate catalog definitions from individual specimens, identifiers, custody, inventory units, locations, condition observations, and media.

Grading & Provenance Evidence

Maintain grading-company references, reported grades, certificate references, provenance events, and valuation observations with source and confidence information.

Listing Preparation & Discovery

Prepare specimens, manage collectible listing records, and publish read-only discovery projections. Auction, consignment, buylist, and offer records are not evidence of completed money movement or active bidding.

Common Use Cases

Catalog & Specimens
Grading & Provenance Evidence
Listing Preparation & Discovery

Dependencies for Openfront Collectibles Hosting

The app needs a PostgreSQL database and S3-compatible object storage. Both are provisioned by this template.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Next.js and Keystone 6 with a GraphQL API, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Payments, email, and other external providers need their own operator configuration; this template does not activate them.

Why Deploy Openfront Collectibles 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 Openfront Collectibles 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.