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What we build for ourselves

Before we sell anyone a tool, we use it. This site is deployed with Orbit. Here is what we have published, with its real status and no dressing up: what already runs in production, what is still only design, and what you cannot download yet.

In production v1.3.6

Orbit

Deploy your sites to your own VPS with one command.

Bash · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS MIT

See project

In design

Orbit Desktop

Orbit's mouse-driven interface, running on your laptop and not on your server.

Rust · SSH MIT

See project

In development

TAPE

A multi-site editorial engine for controlled autonomous publishing.

TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Redis

See project

Free BIOS X

Themes

WordPress themes designed and coded by hand.

WordPress · FSE GPL

See project

How to read this page

Every project says where it stands

The four are at very different stages and it would be easy to paint them the same. We do not: the status chip goes before the name, and if something has no application to download or its code is not public yet, its page says so before you reach the end.

In production

Installable today, with a published version. We run it ourselves.

In development

The engine works and is tested, but there is nothing open for you to try yet.

In design

The architecture is written and published. The application does not exist yet.

Why we publish it

It is the part of the work a client site never shows

A case study shows the result. A repository shows the decisions: what was discarded, what was measured and what was deliberately left half-done. If you are going to trust us with infrastructure, this says more about us than any services page.