Open-source app platform · self-hosted
The home for every app your AI builds. On servers you own.
Your AI can put one app on a server. Automaton runs all of them: sign-in, sharing, an app store, a catalog for your team, secrets, backups and safe updates. Your data stays where you decide, and the cost is the server you rent.
Why not just a server?
Deploying one app is easy. Running fifty, for real people, is the work.
Ask an AI to copy an app to a VPS and you get one app. Automaton gives you the platform around it, so the tenth app is as easy as the first and every app has the same sharing, security and recovery.
| AI + a bare server | Automaton | |
|---|---|---|
| Address and HTTPS | DNS, ports, proxy and certificates wired by hand for each app | Every app gets its own HTTPS address automatically |
| Who can open it | Public, or a password you build yourself | Per app: private, signed-in members, or public |
| Sharing and discovery | Send a link and hope | Your own app store, plus catalogs your team installs from in one click |
| Secrets | .env files copied around | A vault per app and project; platform access needs an administrator's approval |
| Updates | A bad deploy takes the app down | The new version goes live only after its health check passes |
| Backups | If someone remembers | Nightly backups; restore to a clean server tested |
| Starting point | Your AI writes every app from scratch, every time | Install proven apps from catalogs in one click, then fork and adapt |
| Your AI's instructions | Re-explained every session | Each app ships with a contract and guide your agent reads |
One platform
Everything an app needs after it is built
Built for AI agents
A command line your agent drives, with generated guidance: how to build, deploy and prove an app works.
People and access
Invite people, choose who can open each app, and approve what apps may do.
Your app store
Publish apps with a cover and a description at store.your-domain, for your team or the world.
Catalogs
Point Studio at a GitHub repository of apps. Your team installs from it in one click.
Fork and iterate
Copy an app to try an idea, deploy again in seconds, and keep the version that works.
Data you control
Apps, data and backups stay on your machines. Add more servers when you need them.
Catalogs
Don't rebuild what already exists
Apps can wait as source code in GitHub repositories until you need them. Add a repository as a catalog, and its apps appear in Studio, ready to install on your server whenever you want. Pick tested, popular open-source apps instead of asking your AI to write everything from nothing.
- Source stays in GitHub until you install it; nothing runs until you choose
- Built from source on your own server, so you can read exactly what runs
- Fork an installed app and let your AI adapt it
- Packaging an existing open-source app takes one small file your agent can write
- games/Untranslatable, Space Invaders
- maintenance/backup, links, flow check
- site-links/
- main.pythe app, unchanged
- automaton.jsonthe only extra file
- catalog.jsongenerated on push
// maintenance/site-links/automaton.json { "name": "Automaton Site Links", "summary": "Crawls your sites and reports broken links.", "application": { "secrets": [ "GITHUB_TOKEN" ] } }
Who it is for
From one curious builder to a whole company
Creators
Build small things with your AI and keep them in one place.
- Every idea gets its own link in minutes
- Publish the good ones to your app store
- One small server instead of many subscriptions
Setup
Your AI installs it. You just say where.
Rent a small Linux server, point a domain at it, and hand your agent the address. It follows the public guide and reports back. A working server took 2-3 minutes in test runs.
Rent a server and a domain
Any x86_64 Ubuntu or Debian machine with 4 GB of memory. About €7 a month at common providers.
Ask your agent
Give it SSH access, your domain and an email. It reads automaton.monster/llms.txt and does the rest.
Start building
Open Studio, invite your people, and ask for your first app. It shows up with its own address.