Skyliner is shutting down and our team is joining MailChimp

We have some important news for customers and users of Skyliner: we will be shutting down the Skyliner service. While we have some very happy users of the service, we unfortunately do not see a path for continuing to run it as a stand-alone business. Looking forward, all three of us will be joining MailChimp.

Skyliner will shut down on July 15th, 2017. Because of Skyliner’s architecture, if you have deployed a web service through Skyliner, you already own and will continue to own all AWS resources needed to keep it running. When Skyliner shuts down, though, you will no longer be able to push new deploys with Skyliner, or otherwise use our dashboard. We have added a JSON configuration export tool to the Settings > Environment variables page to help you move to another service.

If you are a paying customer, we stopped billing you at the end of April, and we won’t bill you again.

Between now and July 15th, we are happy to provide any or all help we can to customers or users moving off of Skyliner. The best way to get help is to join slack.skyliner.io, which we monitor closely. We will be responding to questions and providing advice there for the next two months.

We wanted to give a huge thanks to everyone who has supported us, used Skyliner, said nice things about it, read (or argued with) our blog posts, and otherwise made developing the service hugely enjoyable. Most especially, thanks to Bryce Roberts at Indie.vc, for providing so much financial, strategic, and emotional support, from the beginning through to today. We are excited to join MailChimp—which is a very strong match for our values and beliefs about building a business—and we’re looking forward to helping them with their future ambitions. We are, though, very disappointed to see Skyliner come to an end. It’s been a pleasure.

For more information about our shutdown, please see the Skyliner shutdown FAQ.