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An idea,
built from a prompt.

Describe the app in a sentence. Connect the Claude, Codex, opencode or Antigravity plan you already have, choose how much it may do on its own, and it writes the code, sets up the database, points the domain and ships it — then keeps it running, with the same files open in your browser.

WordPress Mailboxes PostgreSQL Gitea Minecraft Node.js +84 more →
PROMPT >
✓
LIVE
BUILDING
+ today
  1. Prompt
  2. Validate
  3. Name
  4. Build
  5. Live
  6. Operate
Hosting from $3.00/mo An app, built and run, from $29.00/mo Try it before you pay, no card needed

Try a name. See how it reads.

This shows the shape of the shortlist your council would bring back. It is paused for now, so please check back soon.

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Building the shortlist…

Your AI can do more than advise.

It can already write the whole app from a prompt. Running it is the other half: the server, the database, the domain, the mail, the deploy. Wiring your AI into those is normally an afternoon of keys, tokens and cloud consoles. Here it is an authorization.

The same request, "set up email for my domain", answered by an AI in a chat window with instructions, and by the same AI inside Helstify, which does the work itself.
Task Wiring it up yourself Inside Helstify
Choosing YourselfYou pick a host, a region and an instance size first. HelstifyYou pick a Brain: Claude, Codex, opencode or Antigravity.
Authorizing YourselfSSH keys, API tokens, an MCP config, cloud credentials. HelstifyYou sign in to your own AI account from inside the app.
Access YourselfWhatever the key you pasted happens to unlock. HelstifyRead-only to look, auto-approve to act. You set it, you change it.
Doing work YourselfEverything happens at a prompt you have to know. HelstifyYou ask in a sentence, or you edit the file yourself. Both work.
Seeing why YourselfYou copy the log out and paste it into a chat window. HelstifyIt reads its own logs and tells you what it found.
Shipping YourselfYou wire up a pipeline, then you maintain the pipeline. HelstifyIt builds, checks the endpoint answers, then swaps the port.
3am YourselfYou are the on-call engineer. HelstifyIt restarts what fell over and leaves you the log to read.

No SSH setup, no cloud-console hopping, no DevOps to learn first. Same hardware, same root, same Linux underneath — what changes is how much you have to know before your AI can touch any of it.

90
Stacks · ready to run

Runtimes, databases, self-hosted tools, voice and game servers. Ask for one by name and it lands on the machine you already pay for.

2
Ways in · on every box

A file manager with a real editor, and a terminal, in the browser. Every machine we rent has both, from the three-dollar one upwards.

24/7
Autonomous ops · always on

Nobody has to be awake at 3am. Agents watch what is running, restart what falls over, and leave the log open for you.

146
Capabilities · on an app plan

Features an app tends to need, like invoicing or taking bookings. Name one in the prompt and the council wires it into the build.

Open a tab. It is all already there.

A file tree, a real editor and a terminal, pointed at the machine that is serving your app. Beside them, the AI you connected, working on the same files. No local checkout, no key to lose, nothing to install.

How a build actually runs
EXPLORER CONNECTED
route.ts no file open
northwind.example main ✓ written to the running machine TypeScript
COUNCIL ENGINEER
>
Tell the council what to do…
Effort Deep Cap $3 Auto-approve
1

Your files, not a copy

The tree is the container's own filesystem. Save and it is live. There is no deploy step between the editor and the machine.

2

Your AI is docked, not elsewhere

It reads the same files you have open. You can hand it the thing you are stuck on without describing it first.

3

You can always take over

Every line it writes is a line you can edit by hand, mid-build. It carries on from where you stopped.

You decide what it may do without asking you.

Read-only lets it inspect the app and tell you what it would do. Auto-approve lets it get on with it. Between the two is this board, so the decision is made with switches rather than a paragraph of reassurance. Turn one off and the council has to come back and ask. Changes apply to the next thing you say to it, not to some future session.

Enforced, not requested
The rows marked enforced are applied outside the model. It is not asked to behave; it is not given the tool.
A ceiling on one message
An agent can work for a long time on a single instruction, and that time bills to your AI plan. You set the limit.
Revocable, and logged
Change the level of access whenever you like. What the AI changed and what it ran stays readable afterwards.
What the council can do 2 of 6 switched off
Council working Flip a switch. It applies to the next step.

It wants to

Ceiling for one message
$0.00 used of $3 on this message

Your AI can run what it builds.

Right now it writes the code and hands it back to you to deploy. Give it a prompt and a machine, and watch the first build go live in front of you.

Build from a prompt →
  • No card
  • Your code stays yours
  • Leave whenever

90 things you can ask for by name.

There are two ways to get any of it. Rent a machine for the one thing you came for — a WordPress site, a mail domain, a database, a game server — and pay for that group and nothing else. Or describe an app on an app plan, and whatever it needs from this list runs on the machine that comes with it at no extra charge.

Browse all 90
WordPress WooCommerce Joomla Drupal Ghost Static site Hugo Astro Jekyll PHP Laravel Symfony Next.js Nuxt Django Ruby on Rails PrestaShop Magento OpenCart MediaWiki Nextcloud Matomo Nginx Apache phpMyAdmin
Mailboxes Webmail Roundcube Transactional sending Spam filtering SPF, DKIM and DMARC Forwarding and aliases Listmonk Mailpit
Bun Node.js Nodemon Deno Python Go Rust Java C# Elixir Dart Lua / Luvit
PostgreSQL MySQL MariaDB SQLite MongoDB Redis Valkey Memcached ClickHouse InfluxDB
Gitea Forgejo code-server Grafana Uptime Kuma Elasticsearch Meilisearch RabbitMQ Reposilite LanguageTool Haste Owncast yarr rathole Folding@home 5e-tools
Paper Minecraft Forge Sponge BungeeCord Rust ARK: Survival Evolved Valheim Terraria Counter-Strike Team Fortress 2 Garry's Mod Insurgency
Mumble TeamSpeak TeaSpeak TS3 Manager Lavalink

Most of these you choose at checkout: every plan asks what to put on the machine before it builds one. The rest you ask for afterwards, the way you would ask a colleague: “put a Gitea and a Redis on this box”. Your council installs it, wires it up, and sends you back the address.

Monday a prompt, Friday a running app.

A first week on an app plan, day by day.

  1. Mon

    The prompt

    You write the prompt. The idea behind it gets scored six ways, honestly, and that includes being told when the answer is no.

  2. Tue

    The name

    You settle on a name and get the domain pointed at the machine that will run the app.

  3. Wed

    The machine

    A real server exists, with your domain on it and mail arriving.

  4. Thu

    The build

    The AI you connected builds the app on the machine while you watch in the browser editor. You can change anything it writes, mid-build.

  5. Fri

    Live

    You stop driving. The council takes over the deployments, the DNS and the inbox, and reports back from one panel.

Prompt, validate, name, build, live, operate.

That is the long way round, and it is one continuous journey rather than six products. Already running an app? You join at Build — bring the domain and the codebase, connect your AI and carry on from there.

Full breakdown
01 >
01

Prompt

Describe the application in your own words, or bring one you already run — a domain, a codebase, an app that already has users.

02
02

Validate

Your council pressure-tests the idea behind the prompt across six angles, tells you where it is weak, and the verdict stays on file afterwards.

03
03

Name & Domain

Settle on a name worth keeping, check the domain, and claim the identity the app will ship under.

04
04

Build

Connect Claude, Codex, opencode or Antigravity. It builds the frontend, the database, the accounts and the checkout on your own machine while you watch in the browser editor.

05
05

Live

Deploy it, point the domain, issue the certificate, start the mail. From here there is something on the internet with your name on it.

06
06

Operate

The council stays: mail, updates, restarts, deployments, the 3am work. You decide what it may do without asking first.

One machine. Everything the app needs on it.

Each of these is named after the job, not after a product. Rent a machine and you pick from this list yourself, at checkout or afterwards in a sentence. Take an app plan and the council picks for you, from exactly the same list, based on what the prompt asks for.

146
Capabilities
90
Stacks to host
26
Built-in tools
Capability catalogue · 11 categories 146 total
Platform & hosting
19
Running the business
15
Sell & get paid
14
Marketing & growth
14
Content & media
14
Customers & support
13
Money & paperwork
12
Data & insight
12
Security & access
12
People & team
11
Communication
10

You are already paying for most of this.

Not to us. To six different companies, on six different renewal dates, with six dashboards to log into when something goes wrong at the weekend.

A stack you would otherwise rent Per month
Six bills, six logins $0
All of it, one plan
$0 /mo

One machine, one bill, one login. The database, the mailboxes, the backups and the monitoring are on it already, and so is the crew that runs them.

$ a month back

$ over a year, and five fewer things to remember to cancel.

The left-hand figures are typical list prices for each piece, kept deliberately on the low side. They are an illustration of a common stack, not a quote and not any particular company's pricing. The figure on the right is what this store charges for the entry app plan, which is the one that replaces the whole stack at once. Renting a machine for a single piece of it costs less again.

Priced by the thing you actually came for.

Almost everything here is one machine doing one job, and it is priced like that: a site, a mail domain, a database, a runtime, a game server. Pick the kind, pick the size, say what goes on it at checkout.

Web hosting

4 sizes

Sites and shops, from a plain HTML page to WordPress and a full storefront, on a machine that is yours.

From $4.00/mo

Starter

One site, comfortably. Enough for a brochure, a blog or a shop finding its feet.

1 GB memory · 1 vCPU · 10 GB storage

Up to $32.50/mo at the largest size.

WordPress WooCommerce Joomla
See the sizes →

Mail hosting

4 sizes

Real mailboxes on your own domain, webmail to read them in, and the sending your app needs.

From $4.00/mo

Inbox

Email on your own domain for you and a couple of others, with the records set up for you.

3 mailboxes · 5 GB each · Webmail, IMAP and SMTP

Up to $30.50/mo at the largest size.

Mailboxes Webmail Roundcube
See the sizes →

Languages & runtimes

4 sizes

Whatever your code is written in, it has somewhere to run. The language, its package manager and something to restart it are already set up.

From $4.00/mo

Script

A bot, a scraper, a cron job. Something small that has to keep running.

1 GB memory · 1 vCPU · 10 GB storage

Up to $30.50/mo at the largest size.

Bun Node.js Nodemon
See the sizes →

Databases & caches

5 sizes

Somewhere to keep the records, on your own machine, with passwords you hold and can change at any time.

From $4.00/mo

Cache

A Redis or a small Postgres sitting next to an app that needs one.

1 GB memory · 1 vCPU · 10 GB storage

Up to $67.00/mo at the largest size.

PostgreSQL MySQL MariaDB
See the sizes →

Self-hosted software

4 sizes

The tools you would otherwise rent by the seat: code hosting, search, dashboards, status pages. Yours, on your machine.

From $4.00/mo

Tool

One tool for one person or a small group. An uptime monitor, a paste bin, a wiki.

1 GB memory · 1 vCPU · 10 GB storage

Up to $37.50/mo at the largest size.

Gitea Forgejo code-server
See the sizes →

Game servers

5 sizes

Somewhere for you and your friends to play, with the mods you want and nobody wiping it at the end of the month.

From $5.00/mo

Pocket

A few friends on a vanilla world. Cheap enough to leave running.

2 GB memory · 1 vCPU · 10 GB storage

Up to $67.00/mo at the largest size.

Paper Minecraft Forge
See the sizes →

Voice & audio servers

4 sizes

Voice chat for a community, a guild or a team, and the panels for running it.

From $3.00/mo

Room

A channel or two for a group that just wants to talk while they play.

1 GB memory · 1 vCPU · 5 GB storage

Up to $20.50/mo at the largest size.

Mumble TeamSpeak TeaSpeak
See the sizes →
Or have the whole thing run for you

Business OS

The same machines as above, with a council on top that names the thing, argues the idea out, builds it, and then stays to run the mail, the DNS, the deployments and the 3am work. Everything in the catalogue runs on that machine at no extra charge. Paying more buys more of the council's time, more room, and more seats.

from $29.00 /mo

3 plans · every stack included

Compare the plans →

Every price above is a machine of your own, not a slice of one, and every one of them comes with the file manager, the terminal and your own AI docked beside them. Mail is the exception: that is mailboxes on our mail server rather than a box to log into. Monthly, no contract, and you can move up a size or leave whenever you like.

Bring your own AI.

We supply the environment, the tools, the permissions and the app's context. The intelligence is whichever of these you pick, on your own account at their price — so you keep using whichever improves fastest.

More about Brains
Claude
Anthropic

Sign in with the Claude account you already have. The sharpest of the four at long, multi-step work on a real codebase.

Codex
OpenAI

Bring the Codex subscription you already have and let it drive the builds and the ongoing engineering.

Antigravity
Google

Link Google's coding-agent workflow and run builds and hands-off operations on your own quota.

opencode
opencode

Free models, and the only one of the four that needs no account at all. Slower than the paid Brains, but there is nothing to sign up for.

The questions people ask first.

You describe an application in a prompt, and your own AI builds it and keeps it running. You connect the Claude, Codex, opencode or Antigravity plan you already pay for, choose what it may do, and it works on the real code, server, database, domain and deployments behind a live app — with the same files open in your browser.

That is the point of it. Four Brains are supported today — Claude, Codex, opencode and Antigravity — and you sign in to your own account, on your own plan, at their price. We would rather not be a reseller standing between you and your own quota, and we would rather you kept moving to whichever model improves fastest.

Read and change the code, run commands, provision and query the database, work with your GitHub repository, deploy and roll back, read the logs when something breaks, set DNS and certificates, run the mailboxes. All of it inside your own environment and all of it bounded by the permissions you set.

No. There are no keys to generate, no MCP server to install, no cloud credentials to copy between dashboards and no terminal you are obliged to open. Authorizing your AI here is closer to authorizing an app. The terminal is there if you want it, not because you need it.

Two modes and a board of switches. Read-only lets it inspect the app and recommend; auto-approve lets it edit files and run commands without asking every time. The rows marked enforced are applied outside the model — it is not asked to behave, it is not given the tool. You can change the level of access at any time, cap what one instruction may spend, and read back what was changed and what was run.

Either. Write a prompt and the council pressure-tests the idea, names it, finds the domain and builds it. Or bring the domain and the codebase of an app you already run, connect a Brain and carry on from here.

It keeps running, and so does the AI. Signups, users, checkout, mailboxes, domains, deployments, logs and monitoring live in the same environment as the code, and they are all still there after launch — which is when most of the work actually starts.

Yes, and many people do. Web hosting, mail on your own domain, a database, a runtime, a self-hosted tool, a game or voice server: each is its own group in the shop, priced on its own, and you pick what goes on the machine at checkout. The app plans are the other product — the same machines plus a council that builds and runs an app on them — and you do not need one to get the other.

Yes. Connect a GitHub repository and the container pushes and pulls like any other checkout, so you can work locally while your AI works on the machine against the same history. The browser editor is there for when you do not want to clone anything, not as the only way in.

Your app runs in its own container, not alongside anyone else's. Secrets are encrypted, scoped to what needs them, and revocable. They are never written to logs, and every action taken in your environment is recorded where you can read it back.

You take the domain, the code and the data with you. They were yours throughout, and there is no stage at which we hold them hostage.

A ticket reaches us from any plan in the shop. On the app plans it is written down: Starter is community support, Operator adds email, Studio puts you ahead of the queue. The council is also reading the machine's own logs the whole time, which is usually what answers the question first.

Something else? Contact the team

Ten minutes, and something is on the internet.

No region to pick, no instance size to guess at, no support ticket to open before anything can start.

STEP /
Start free → The first hour costs nothing.

The timings describe a normal run rather than a guarantee. A big import or a slow upstream registrar will take longer, and the panel tells you which step it is on rather than showing you a spinner.

Build with AI.
Run with Helstify.

A box for one job from $3.00 a month, or a whole application built from a prompt and run for you. Start from a prompt or bring an app you already run. Either way you connect the AI you already pay for, and the first hour costs nothing.