The uncompromising app platform.
Carloku is an app hosting platform that accepts no tradeoffs. Deploy in seconds. Scale to billions. Simple commands, massive power. Cloud, hybrid, and on-prem: all first-class. Welcome to the new standard. Get ready to ship.
Open source underneath — hosted here, never locked here.
That session is real, and so is the app — the last URL opens it, and its source is public.
The whole workflow
One command — or three small motions. No pipelines to babysit, no containers to wrap your app in — you ship the thing itself.
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carlos deployOne command: it ships your app, promotes it, and waits until the URL serves the new build. When it prints
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Want to look first?
Take it in two motions:
carlos shipgives you a private link to the real, running thing;carlos promotemakes the exact thing you approved the public thing. Nothing is rebuilt behind your back. -
Changed your mind?
Point at yesterday's version and promote that instead. Going back is the same small motion as going forward.
What you stop thinking about
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Certificates
Point your domain at Carloku and the padlock appears. Renewals happen without you.
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Passwords
Sign in with a passkey, on the dashboard and in the terminal. There's nothing to invent, reuse, or leak.
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Idle servers
Apps doze when nobody's around and wake the instant someone shows up. A quiet app is just quiet.
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Sending email
One command and your app has SMTP credentials, on a domain that signs and aligns. No mail service to sign up for, nothing to run.
Hosted here, never locked here.
The platform under Carloku is open source: CARLOS. You can read every moving part — or run the whole thing yourself, on your own machines, and your apps wouldn't know the difference.
And what you ship is your app as itself — a folder of files, a single binary — not a container wrapped around it.
Proof it works: this site is itself a CARLOS app, shipped and promoted the same way you just read about. Here's its source.
Be live before it feels like work.
One small tool, four steps, and your app is on the internet.