Deploy apps by chat with a $5 VPS and Dokploy MCP

Goal: Get “build and deploy” by chat without a paid app builder.
Setup: agents used in source: Claude; tools/MCPs stated: Dokploy, Junctio, GitHub, Docker Compose.
Steps:
1. Rent any $5 VPS (Dokploy wants ~2 GB RAM) and install Dokploy.
2. Run an MCP gateway container next to it (the author wrote Junctio) holding the Dokploy API key; claude.ai and ChatGPT can’t spawn local stdio servers.
3. Connect the gateway to your AI client.
4. Prompt: “Build a landing page for X, push it to my GitHub, deploy it on Dokploy under x.example.com.”
5. There is no live preview or visual editor; the same trick works for any API with an OpenAPI spec.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Web Artisan — https://dev.to/k2sodev/i-almost-replaced-lovable-with-a-5-vps-dokploy-and-one-mcp-gateway-3mn9

Steps are from the source. Includes a “Based on” credit line.