A new software category

Your software.
Actually yours.

Deploy any open source app in one click.
Shape it however you want, no code required.

The problem

Software has a fixed shape.
You're expected to fit it.

Every product encodes its maker's assumptions about how you should work. You can configure a field but not the model. The vendor decides what the software is allowed to become. You inherit that decision.

1,200
times an employee switches apps per day to 'fit' their workflow.
Harvard Business Review
$9,623
Average SaaS spend per employee annually.
Spendesk SaaS Trends 2026
41%
of employees bypass official apps for tools that actually fit..
Gartner 2024
The gap

Deployment is solved.
Malleability isn't.

Managed hosting services like PikaPods and Elestio have already made self-hosting accessible. You can run your own Notion equivalent without touching a terminal. That's real progress. But a self-hosted app is still someone else's fixed product, just on your server.

The vision

The end of the app
as a fixed object.

Software shouldn't be a cage you live inside. It should be a mirror of how you work. If you think it, the software should become it.

Open source is the DNA

OSS can now rival leading products. Here, it is the foundation, not the product.

AI is the evolutionary force

Features that used to take engineers weeks now happen in seconds. The cost of change just collapsed.

You are the author

Not a user. Not a subscriber. The person who decides what your software becomes.

The product

One click to running.
Then make it yours.

Layer 1 • App Store

A real product, already running.

Pick an app: your own Google Photos, your own Notion, your own password manager. It deploys in minutes, fully managed, fully isolated. No terminal. No config. No landlord.

  • One-click setup, no terminal
  • SSL, backups, updates
  • Your data, fully isolated
Bustling
Search 200+ apps…
Your Google Photos
Immich • Photos
Get
Your Notion
AppFlowy • Documents
Get
Your automation platform
n8n • Automations
Installing…
Your password manager
Vaultwarden • Passwords
Get
Layer 2 • Feature Studio

Make it yours without coding.

Every deployed app is a live fork. You prompt, an AI agent builds, and your app changes. What starts as a request becomes a running feature, and popular features become available to everyone.

Shape it

Request any feature in plain language. An AI agent builds and ships it directly into your running instance. Not a ticket. Not a prototype. A feature.

Request anything
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Share & discover

Popular features get shared to the community. Apps sharing the same configuration share infrastructure. More users leads to bigger margins.

Dark mode
Slack notifications
CSV export
Email digests
+2,400 community features
Why now

The demand was always there.
The conditions just arrived.

Open software matured. AI made changes cheap. Users stopped accepting passive access.

Finished software is losing ground

Ghostty reached 1 million users in 18 months. But libghostty (the open source library underneath) reached multiple millions in sixty days. As AI lowers the cost of changing software, open components become more valuable. More people want systems they can build on, not just products they have to take as is.

Non-coder builders
$75M
Lovable ARR

8 million users who want to build without writing code. The market exists and is already massive.

Breakout growth
$40M
Bolt.new ARR in 5 months

Zero to $40M ARR from launch. Mathematically unprecedented in SaaS history.

Self-hosting momentum
100k
n8n GitHub stars

The leading edge of a migration that hasn't had an accessible entry point. Yet.

Economics of AI
$0.12
per feature shipped by AI

$0.12–$0.53 to run an agent end-to-end. Cheap enough to become part of the product itself.

Early conversations

If this feels like the next
software model, we should talk.

We're looking for the first people who get this vision, to build with us, and to back us.

Book a chat