Introduction

Serverless publishing platform with built in user management, usage based end-user billing and marketing tools.

Picobase is a platform for publishing web apps and services. It enables you to publish apps with user management, monetization and hosting managed for you. Apps hosted on Picobase get access to a growing set of services including user state, billing and marketing tools.

The goal of traditional serverless platforms like Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare is to free you from thinking of infrastructure and focus on building your app. Picobase takes this one step further also handle monetization and user management.

What is Picobase meant for?

Picobase is built on a serverless architecture and is designed to provide tools that are common across web apps and services.

Picobase lowers the barrier for solo developers or small teams to compete with big companies and vc funded startups. When you reach a certain size you likely want to build your own user management and monetization strategy, but when you are getting started those are details you likely don't want to care about. You would be better off focusing on building what is truly unique about your product.

With modern serverless platforms we no longer have to think about managing servers. Picobase takes this one step further and also handles user management and billing to make it even easier to deploy full featured apps and services.

Most apps and services require some kind of

Lets say your app gets 1000 users. Hosting costs would likely be near zero if you hosted it on a modern serverless platform and not using expensive AI services etc. But you still need to pay for it and figure out a way to charge users.

traditional

The traditional approach is that developers host their app themselves for example on Vercel or digital ocean. Picobase provide some additional tools that makes it easier to get started and grow your app.