Use cases

Use cases for startups building on redu.cloud.

Real things you can build on redu today, each with a video, a product page, or a step-by-step guide. Deploy an app, run a managed database, self-host your tools, or autoscale a web app.

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Each use case links to a real deploy video, a product page, or a step-by-step docs guide.

What startups build

Real infrastructure patterns, explained simply.

Practical workloads that startups, developers, and small teams actually run, each one doable on redu today.

Deploy and self-host open-source tools

Popular

Point your agent at an open-source repo and deploy it to real infrastructure. We have deployed dozens on video, and there are step-by-step guides for the common ones.

What it uses
  • Deploy from a Git repo or a compose file
  • Real VMs and managed databases
  • Self-healing when a deploy breaks
  • Guides for Supabase, Gitea, Uptime Kuma, and more
Watch real deploys →

Managed databases for your app

Databases

Spin up managed PostgreSQL, Redis, Qdrant, ClickHouse, or MySQL, each on its own dedicated VM and auto-wired to your app on redu.

What it uses
  • PostgreSQL, Redis, Qdrant, ClickHouse, MySQL
  • Each on its own dedicated VM
  • Auto-wired connection strings
  • Persistent, with manual snapshots
Managed databases →

An app with a private database

Full stack

Deploy an app and a managed database on a private network, so the app talks to the database privately and comes up at an automatic domain with HTTPS.

What it uses
  • An instance for your app
  • A private managed PostgreSQL
  • A private network between them
  • An automatic domain with SSL
See it deployed →

Your own private AI stack

AI

Self-host an AI stack that runs on your own model, so nothing goes to a third-party API. We deployed Mem0, MindsDB, and Ollama together on video.

What it uses
  • A local model on Ollama
  • Vector search with managed Qdrant
  • Agent memory and data tools
  • Nothing sent to a third-party API
Watch the AI stack deploy →

Autoscale a web app

Scaling

Put your app behind a load balancer in an autoscaling cluster, so it grows and shrinks with load and you never migrate to handle traffic.

What it uses
  • An autoscaling cluster
  • A load balancer in front
  • Health checks on the members
  • Scale up and down with load
Autoscaling clusters →

Self-host your internal tools

Self-host

Run the tools your team relies on, monitoring, analytics, newsletters, support, on infrastructure you control, with a guide for each.

What it uses
  • Uptime Kuma for monitoring
  • Ghost or Listmonk for content and email
  • Umami or Matomo for analytics
  • A step-by-step self-host guide for each
Self-host guides →
Content plan

Not generic cloud content. Practical startup guides.

Every use case connects to real proof: a deploy video, a product page, or a step-by-step docs guide, so you can go from the idea to a working setup.

Blog post

A practical explanation of the use case, when it matters, and how startups can approach it.

Video walkthrough

Founder-led videos showing how to deploy, configure, and use the workload on redu.cloud.

Docs guide

Step-by-step documentation with commands, architecture notes, and setup instructions.

Templates where useful

Cloud-init examples and deployment templates for repeatable setups.

Examples

More you can self-host

More open-source tools you can self-host on redu today, each a real, deployable app rather than a placeholder.

Listmonk for newslettersZammad for supportPostgreSQL on a private networkRedis-backed web appInternal admin toolsStaging environments for SaaS releasesAutoscaling application workersVideo ingestion services
Why use cases matter

Infrastructure should help startups ship faster.

A cloud platform is more useful when users can quickly understand what to build with it. redu.cloud use cases will connect infrastructure resources with practical business outcomes.

Less setup guesswork

Users should not need to spend days deciding how to connect basic production infrastructure.

Useful open-source deployments

Guides will focus on real tools that help companies operate, support customers, market, automate, and build.

Docs connected to outcomes

Instead of only explaining features, use cases show how those features create working systems.

Built for small teams

The content is designed for founders, developers, and small teams that need to move quickly.

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Guides for startup teams

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