Integrations / Developer Tools
Railway on WhatsApp: manage projects, services and templates with an AI agent
Flann turns Railway into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Railway for you. Small businesses often rely on one developer or an IT contractor who is busy elsewhere. Flann does not replace them. It gives you a way to check Railway yourself, understand what they are telling you and pass them the right details when something needs attention.
59 actions in Railway. 26 only look things up, and 33 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Railway
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into Railway actions.
“Show me my projects in Railway.”
“Find templates in Railway.”
“Show me my domains in Railway.”
“Create a project in Railway.”
“Create a domain in Railway.”
“Create a plugin in Railway.”
What Flann can work with in Railway
Railway gives Flann 59 actions across 17 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Projects | createlook upupdate | 3 |
| Services | createlook upupdate | 3 |
| Templates | look upsearch | 2 |
| Environments | createdeletelook uprename | 5 |
| Deployments | canceldeletelook up | 4 |
| Domains | createdeletelook upupdate | 4 |
| Variables | deletelook upupdate | 4 |
| Volumes | createdeletelook upupdate | 4 |
Side by side, the two ways of working in Railway:
| Compare | In Railway yourselfYou click through each job | Flann on RailwayYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up about projects | By hand, screen by screen | 26 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | 33 changes, made from a message |
| Railway records | All of them, one screen at a time | 17 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your Railway API key, once |
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Step by step: Railway jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real Railway actions, one step at a time.
Create a project from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a project in Railway with these details.”
- Flann runs
List Projectsin Railway and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create Projectin Railway. - Flann creates it in Railway and confirms in the chat.
Fix a service without opening Railway
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Change the service in Railway: here is what is different.”
- Flann runs
List Servicesin Railway and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Update Servicein Railway. - Flann makes the change in Railway and confirms in the chat.
Clean up environments you no longer need
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Which environments in Railway are out of date? Remove the ones I confirm.”
- Flann runs
List Environmentsin Railway and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Delete Environmentin Railway. - Each removal is confirmed in the chat.
Where Flann saves you time in Railway
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Railway is connected.
Alerts in plain English
Today
Alert emails from Railway arrive full of codes and thresholds. You cannot tell an urgent one from a routine one, so you either ignore them all or worry about every one.
With Flann
“What does this alert from Railway mean? Should I worry?”
Flann reads the alert and the context around it in Railway, then explains what happened in a couple of plain sentences. It says whether it looks serious and who usually handles that kind of thing.
What you stop doing: Guessing which alerts matter is no longer your job.
What changed this week
Today
Your developer ships changes regularly. You find out what changed when a customer mentions that a button has moved.
With Flann
“What did the team change on the app this week?”
Flann reads the recent changes recorded in Railway and turns them into a short list in everyday language, pointing out anything customers will notice. This is read-only.
What you stop doing: You are no longer the last to know what changed in your own product.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Railway
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose Railway.
- Paste your Railway API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Railway account settings.
- Ask Flann for what you need on WhatsApp, by text or voice note. It picks the right Railway action itself.
Of the 59 Railway actions, 26 only read. The other 33 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Railway in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Railway with Flann
Make a change safely
Tell Flann what to change.
Problems in plain words
Ask what went wrong overnight. Flann reads Railway and explains it without the jargon.
Check status from your phone
Ask Flann whether everything is running. It checks Railway and answers in the chat.
Everything Flann can do in Railway
Every Railway action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 26
- Collect Deployment Evidence
- Get Build Logs
- Get Deployment
- Get Deployment Logs
- Get Environment
- Get GitHub PR Info
- Get HTTP Logs
- Get HTTP Metrics
- Get Resource Metrics
- Get Template
- Get User Kickback Earnings
- List API Tokens
- List Deployments
- List Domains
- List Environment Patches
- List Environments
- List GitHub Repos
- List GitHub Writable Scopes
- List Integration Auths
- List Notification Deliveries
- List Projects
- List Railway Trusted Domains
- List Services
- List Variables
- List Volumes
- Search Templates
Changes 33
- Cancel Deployment
- Commit Environment Changes
- Configure Buckets and Private Network
- Create Domain
- Create Environment
- Create Plugin
- Create Project
- Create Service
- Create Volume
- Delete Deployment
- Delete Domain
- Delete Environment
- Delete Variable
- Delete Volume
- Delete workspace
- Deploy Service
- Deploy Template
- Disconnect Discord account
- Redeploy Deployment
- Rename Environment
- Replace Variables
- Restart Deployment
- Retry Domain Certificate
- Rollback Deployment
- Stage Template
- Stop Deployment
- Update Domain
- Update Project
- Update Service
- Update Service Instance
and 3 more
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Common questions
What can Flann do with projects in Railway?
Flann can create, look up and update projects in Railway, using 3 actions (Create Project, List Projects, Update Project). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change projects in Railway.
What can Flann do with services in Railway?
Flann can create, look up and update services in Railway, using 3 actions (Create Service, List Services, Update Service). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change services in Railway.
How does Flann connect to Railway?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Railway and paste your Railway API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Railway account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 59 actions in Railway.
Do I need to open Railway to use it with Flann?
No. Once Railway is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Railway.
Does connecting Railway cost extra?
No. Railway is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.