Nubis was born from a simple but persistent observation: building scalable products in emerging markets is unnecessarily difficult. Developers often face unreliable infrastructure, high latency, foreign currency barriers, and tools that are not designed with their realities in mind. While global cloud providers offer powerful systems, they rarely optimize for local constraints. Nubis set out to close that gap by rethinking cloud infrastructure from the ground up for builders operating in these environments.

Inspiration

The inspiration came from firsthand experience. Repeated friction while deploying and scaling applications revealed a structural problem, not just a tooling issue. Access to compute should not be a privilege tied to geography. Nubis is driven by the idea that infrastructure should be as accessible and predictable as electricity. If developers can rely on the underlying system, they can focus entirely on innovation.

At a conceptual level, Nubis treats infrastructure as a function of availability, cost, and performance:

$$ \text{Infrastructure Value} = \frac{\text{Performance} \times \text{Reliability}}{\text{Cost}} $$

The goal is to maximize this value for developers who have historically been underserved.

How It Was Built Nubis was built with a modular, cloud-native architecture. The system is designed to be lightweight, scalable, and region-aware.

Built With

  • alertmanager
  • axum
  • better-stack
  • clerk
  • cloudflare-dns
  • cloudflare-r2
  • cloudflare-workers
  • croct
  • digitalocean
  • digitalocean-gradient-ai
  • digitalocean-kubernetes
  • digitalocean-spaces
  • docker
  • docker-compose
  • dodo-payments
  • framer-motion
  • grafana
  • intercom
  • javascript
  • jwt
  • kubernetes
  • loki
  • mdx
  • namesilo
  • neon
  • next.js
  • nextjs
  • notion-api
  • nubis
  • paystack
  • playwright
  • polar.sh
  • postgresql
  • prometheus
  • radix-ui
  • react
  • react-hook-form
  • react-router
  • react-three-fiber
  • recharts
  • redis
  • remotion
  • render
  • reqwest
  • rust
  • sentry
  • serde
  • sql
  • sqlx
  • tailwind-css
  • tanstack-query
  • three.js
  • tokio
  • tower
  • typescript
  • upstash-redis
  • vercel-analytics
  • vite
  • wrangler
  • xterm.js
  • zod
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