The rise of vibe coding, where AI systems like Lovable and Replit AI can build applications from simple prompts, has simplified the creation of software, but maintaining and deploying these apps remains a challenge. Now, Shuttle, a platform engineering startup, aims to close that gap.
On Wednesday, Shuttle announced $6 million in seed funding to automate infrastructure management for AI-generated applications. Investors include former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Segment founder Calvin French-Owen.
Shuttle takes code written by AI systems and automatically determines the best way to deploy it, offering developers a ready-made infrastructure package and price estimate. Once approved, the platform deploys the app directly to the cloud with minimal setup.
Originally part of Y Combinator’s 2020 class, Shuttle has become a leading tool for deploying Rust applications, boasting 20,000 developers and 120,000 deployments. With the new funding, the company plans to expand support to all programming languages and AI coding tools.
CEO Nodar Daneliya says the growing interoperability between coding ecosystems makes this the perfect moment to scale. “AI is wiping away the borders between different language ecosystems,” he said.
Shuttle’s next step is to build an agentic AI interface for infrastructure management, allowing developers to use natural language to provision databases or cloud hosting, much like they already do when generating code.
“Spec-driven development is becoming the go-to way of doing things,” Daneliya added. “And there’s no reason that shouldn’t apply to infrastructure as well.”
