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  "competitors": [],
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  "updatedAt": "2026-07-26T00:03:31.470Z",
  "verifiedVitals": {
    "website": "https://shellycloud.com",
    "founded": "2012",
    "headquarters": "Not explicitly mentioned.",
    "pricing_model": "Subscription-based, starting at €20 per month.",
    "core_products": "Ruby application hosting with support for Rack frameworks, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis databases, local file storage, Varnish, and Memcached caching.",
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    "target_markets": "Ruby developers, companies and individuals deploying Ruby on Rails and other Rack-based web applications.",
    "employee_count": "Small team (less than 20) based on listed team members over time.",
    "funding_stage": "Not explicitly mentioned.",
    "subcategory": "Ruby Application Hosting"
  },
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      "Shelly Cloud hosting",
      "Ruby on Rails cloud hosting",
      "Shelly Cloud shutdown",
      "Heroku: A well-established PaaS offering extensive support for Ruby applications, known for ease of deployment and managed services, providing a modern alternative to what Shelly Cloud offered.",
      "AWS Elastic Beanstalk: An Amazon Web Services offering that simplifies the deployment, scaling, and management of web applications, including Ruby, abstracting the infrastructure layer, similar to She",
      "DigitalOcean App Platform: A modern PaaS offering from DigitalOcean that allows developers to deploy code directly, providing a streamlined experience for various languages and frameworks, including R"
    ],
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