Memos
The lightweight note hub - markdown thoughts captured in seconds, on your own $5 server.
One-click deploy, from $5/mo on a Miget plan.
Memos occupies the sweet spot note apps keep abandoning: fast capture of markdown thoughts with tags and search, no folders to file into, no sync subscription, no lock-in. A single MIT-licensed Go binary on SQLite - 40k stars of people who wanted exactly this.
One container, one volume, one rule: the first signup becomes the admin, so claim your instance right after deploy. A first-class REST API feeds the community’s mobile clients and your own scripts.
Upstream project: Memos
#what you get
- Instant markdown capture with tags and full-text search
- Selective sharing of individual memos
- First-class REST API; community mobile clients
- Single Go binary + SQLite - one small volume
- MIT, active, 40k+ stars
#topology
| Service | Role | Public |
|---|---|---|
| memos | notes hub (:5000) | yes - first signup becomes admin |
#miget sizing
// this stack needs
256 MiB RAM · 2 GB disk · 1 service
Notes are small; so is this. Claim the instance immediately - first signup is the Host account, then close registration in settings.
Hobby - recommended fit
$5/mo
1 vCPU · 512 MiB · 10 GiB disk
Headroom for your own apps: 1 GiB at $7/mo
Professional - production
$22/mo
1 vCPU · 2 GiB · 10 GiB disk
Dedicated resources, production SLOs - plan details
One Miget plan is a fixed pool of compute - the whole stack (managed databases included) deploys inside it, and anything left over runs your other apps. No per-service or per-seat math.
#vs. other PaaS
Estimated monthly cost of running this exact stack (256 MiB RAM, 2 GB disk, 1 container) elsewhere, from published June 2026 rates.
| Platform | Est. monthly | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Miget ★ | $5 flat | compose stacks first-class: one deploy, dedicated vCPU, managed Postgres/Valkey, volumes and TLS all included in the plan |
| Heroku | ~$13 | no volumes; nothing between 1 GB ($50) and 2.5 GB ($250) dynos - 2 GB containers cost far more than shown |
| DO App Platform | ~$10 | no persistent volumes - stateful containers need managed DBs/Spaces (base $5 Spaces included here) |
| Render | ~$8 | per-service instances (0.5 GB $7, 2 GB $25) - every container is its own paid service |
| Railway | ~$3 | usage-based ($10/GB RAM-mo); vCPU billed separately at $20/vCPU-mo on top |
| Fly.io | ~$2 | cheapest sticker price - but burstable shared CPUs (1/16 core; dedicated vCPUs cost ~2-3×), no compose deploys (one app per container, manual wiring), managed DBs billed extra |
Estimates assume RAM fully allocated at published on-demand rates - and sticker price isn't the whole comparison: the cheaper rows buy burstable shared CPUs, per-service wiring instead of a compose deploy, and managed databases billed separately. Heroku and DO App Platform have no persistent volumes at all - stateful stacks like this one need workarounds there.
#deploy it
On Miget
- Create a Compose Stack in app.miget.com pointing at the templates repository
- Set the stack path to
memos - No required variables - deploy as-is
- Deploy. Miget layers
compose.miget.yaml(RAM, privacy, volumes, managed services) automatically
Locally first?
Every template is portable, vanilla Docker Compose - the Miget overrides are ignored locally:
git clone https://github.com/deployable-sh/stacks
cd miget-compose-templates/memos
docker compose up -dSame files, same behavior. The template README covers connection strings and scaling notes.
#faq
Memos or a full wiki like Outline?
Memos is for capture - thoughts, snippets, links, journal lines - not document hierarchies. Teams wanting structured docs want a wiki; individuals wanting a second brain inbox want this. Many run both.
Where does my data live and can I leave?
A SQLite file and assets on the volume - the most portable storage there is. Export via API or copy the database; no proprietary format anywhere.
Can multiple people use it?
Yes - the Host invites users (or leaves registration open on a trusted domain), and memos are private per-user unless shared. For heavy multi-user, the Postgres driver is one env pair away.
Ship Memos today
One compose stack, 256 MiB of RAM, from $5/month flat, and it runs on your laptop with the same files.