CodeSmash Reviews

As a non-dev, so far CodeSmash does what it says, and I'm happy with my purchase! I love the quick app installations (like Activepieces and n8n) with minimal setup needed and for where a little code's needed, the Youtube tutorials are solid and fill in the gaps. Mario's also active daily in the Discord community - which is great - though we need to grow it into a bigger community: that's where you come in Sumolings.

AWS Lightsail (the only current VPS option) is decent so far, though a bit inflexible and expensive. Hetzner is coming soon and other VPS providers are on the roadmap as well. Having multiple apps on the same VPS is missing (this is especially important if I'm picking up one of the more expensive VPS options from AWS), though Mario says that will come after Hetzner.

Overall, at less than $100 (make sure to grab 2 codes), this is an absolute no brainer purchase here on Appsumo and will probably give you one of the best ROIs of the year.

I’ll start by saying I’m glad I didn’t get this deal elsewhere, and feel for those that spent a lot more when they did. At the same time, I’m glad it’s here on Appsumo at a bit of a reduced rate. So far I really like it.

Code smash is just simple enough for even me to *sort of* understand - says a lot. It’s similar to Coolify, I think, but a bit easier for nobs. Having gone through the process of self hosting n8n on VPS (and hiring someone on Fiverr to help me), I would’ve liked having this platform. But there’s a lot of really popular self hosted apps preloaded bolt.diy, n8n, active pieces , and many more - you just click to deploy (from this platform to your VPS). I’m still trying to figure out how to get feee AWS/Lightsail.

Somehow I haven’t used the gpt integration yet. Looking forward to other VPS options!

If you’re a “vibe coder” this might be a nice way to deploy your stuff, which was/is a major point of intimidation for me. You don’t always have an IDE that has a “click to deploy” option.

Well, I know how to deploy a website, but I have always wanted to be able to deploy from Git. AWS integration seemed a far-off dream, so when I saw what CodeSmash had to offer, I was more than a little intrigued.
I purchased a couple of codes to give it a try, and wow! It works like a dream!
It wasn't straightforward, and I had some issues with integrating Git. Mario offered to help on Discord, but I managed to fix it after watching the video (which I really should have done first and something that I highly recommend, they are really well thought out - thank you Mario :)
I first deployed a static site that CodeSmash deployed via Amazon CloudFront, next I deployed a WordPress site, and that was great - I saw that CodeSmash created the Instance and also the necessary pipelines 'under the hood' - something that I could not have done on my own (as yet). I haven't played around with everything, but the app works well, and I wanted to get this review in to show my support for this product and the founder who clearly cares a lot about this product. The roadmap looks exciting, and if the items come to fruition, this will be an even more amazing product. If I could ask/suggest one thing (that I don't need right now but can imagine maybe doing so in the future), it would be Amazon EC2 integration. Still, even without this, I love CodeSmash and I really look forward to exploring all it offers. Mario, thank you, thank you for making one of my developer dreams come true!