Design and diagrams decision
myterrace.net
A small technical team can reproduce the core template+render+export workflow, but matching Terrace's curated template library, badge cleanup and product polish is costly; a narrow self-hosted tool is realistic, the full paid product less so.
Visit website↗$6/mo
$72/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off44 h to build
$20/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 5 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- User supplies club branding and components (badge, colours, squad, fixtures) → open a template → renderer skins template with the club data/assets → user tweaks and exports final image or animated layout.
What it still won’t have
- Large curated packs of pre-designed templates and the breadth of ready-made layouts
- Polished assets library and badge cleanup service
- Animated layouts and the variety of animation presets
- Ongoing template design work and product polish (UX, copy, example packs)
- Customer-facing billing, trials and marketing already handled by the vendor
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 5 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal Terrace replacement using Next.js for frontend, Node/Express for API, PostgreSQL for Club data, Amazon S3 for assets, and Puppeteer (headless Chrome) to render HTML/CSS templates to PNG/MP4. Core features in scope: (1) My Club editor to store badge, colours, squads, fixtures; (2) template gallery with 20 starter templates whose HTML/CSS adapts to club data; (3) asset upload with background removal via an open API or a library and simple colour-swapping; (4) export endpoint that produces PNG and a simple MP4/GIF animation pipeline; (5) auth (email) and Stripe subscription integration (one paid tier). Out of scope: building dozens of polished packs, advanced animation presets, or a badge-cleanup human service. Include error handling, input validation, and end-to-end tests for rendering and exports.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score62
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productTerrace homepage
- official docsTerrace features
- official pricingTerrace pricing
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.