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v0.1.0 betaNot a host. A tool for the hosting you already use.

Stay in control of your apps, wherever they run.

Website on Vercel. Backend on Railway. Database on Neon. Worker on Cloudflare. Hoista brings it all together so your agents can deploy, monitor and manage it from your computer or your own hosting platform.

Download for macOS Apple Silicon
$ curl -fsSL https://hoista.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- v0.1.0-beta.3
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YOUR AGENTS
Deploy my moodboard app with Hoista
On it. Website on Cloudflare, database on Neon. Deploying now.
Done. It’s live at moodboard.sam.workers.dev
Nice. Add a share button
ON YOUR COMPUTER

Hoista

Connect your accounts once Give your agents access through Hoista without setting up every provider again for each agent.
Bring your whole app together Your website, backend, database and workers in one view, across your own accounts.
Manage it yourself or through your agents Deploy, monitor and manage through Desktop, CLI or any connected agent.
You control access and approve risky actions.
YOUR ACCOUNTS

Cloudflare, Vercel, Railway…

moodboard is live38 s
You pay your host directly. Nothing runs on our servers.

Works with the agents you already use, and the hosts you already pay

ChatGPT Claude Grok Claude Code Codex Cursor Hermes
Cloudflare Vercel Railway Fly.io Render Neon Supabase Runpod Modal
Deploy a Lovable CRM a Bolt booking app a v0 landing page a Cursor SaaS a Replit habit tracker a Claude Code API an AI recipe app a Telegram bot a waitlist page your weekend project a Lovable CRM

Any framework. From a folder on your laptop or a GitHub repo.

Built it with AI?
Ship it with AI.

No servers to learn and no dashboards to click through. You connect a hosting account once, then your agent deploys and comes back with a link.

1

Connect a host

Paste a token from your host, and Hoista finds every app on that account. Never used a host? Hoista walks you through signing up and getting a token.

2

Ask your agent

“Deploy this app with Hoista.” Your agent plans it and ships it to the accounts you connected.

3

Approve what matters

Set an agent to Ask for approval and anything that deletes or removes asks you first, right in the agent, with its reason.

One window for
every app you run.

Hoista Desktop shows every app across your hosts, and what each host has billed you so far this period. Click around yourself, or let your agent do it. It can do everything you see here.

Hoista showing 11 projects across Cloudflare, Fly.io, Railway and Neon, with status and requests for each

See how it fits together

Your site, its database and your agents, with live traffic between them.

Every action on record

What each agent asked for, why, and what happened. Kept on your computer for a year, or as long as you choose.

Failures that point at the fix

What went wrong in plain words, and the one thing to do about it.

Agents on a leash

Choose what each agent may do, which apps it can reach and when its access ends.

Runs on your computer.
Or as a remote, in your account.

Coding tools on your computer talk to Hoista directly. To reach Hoista from ChatGPT or a cloud agent while your laptop sleeps, Hoista puts a copy, your remote, on your Railway or Fly.io account.

Local · the default

Everything stays on this computer

  • Claude Code, Codex and Cursor start Hoista themselves
  • Tokens live in your keychain, or in 1Password
  • Nothing to pay, nothing to run
Remote · always on

A copy on your own hosting

  • ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and cloud agents reach it with your Hoista URL
  • Approvals still come to you, on any device
  • New remote? Bring this computer’s projects over in one step
  • Nothing runs on any server of ours. Stop everything with one button.
Agent settings with the Hoista address for your remote and this computer, and the commands that add Hoista to Claude Code and Codex

Pick any host.
Swap one any time.

Use the hosts you already have, side by side in one app. Hoista works the same with each, and you pay your hosts directly.

Hosting and servers

Sites, APIs, servers and cron jobs

  • Cloudflare
  • Vercel
  • Railway
  • Fly.io
  • Render

Databases

Postgres, storage and more

  • Neon
  • Supabase

Email

Domains and the emails you send

  • Resend

GPUs and AI compute

GPU pods, endpoints and serverless Python

  • Runpod
  • Modal

Code

Deploy when you push

  • GitHub
Prefer the terminal?

Download to deployed,
without leaving the terminal.

Four commands. Then Claude Code does the rest.

~/moodboard — zsh
$ curl -fsSL https://hoista.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- v0.1.0-beta.3
Verified OK
Installed Hoista to /Users/sam/.local/bin. Add this directory to PATH.
Hoista will start at login and restart after exit.
Next: hoist accounts add, then hoist mcp config to connect your coding tool.

A recorded session with example names. Every command is real; the installer needs cosign.

Connect the AI
you already use.

Hoista speaks MCP, the standard way AI tools connect to apps. Set it up once and your agent can see, deploy and fix your apps.

In a coding tool

Run this once in your terminal. Works even when Hoista’s window is closed.

$ claude mcp add --scope user hoista -- hoist mcp

In a chat app or cloud agent

Point a tunnel at port 8788 on your computer, or set up a remote, then paste your Hoista URL into the app’s connector settings. You allow each one first.

https://hoista.yourdomain.com/mcp

Questions

Do I have to move my apps?

No. Connect Railway, Vercel or Cloudflare and your apps stay where they are. Hoista only reads until you choose to manage one.

Which AI tools work?

Claude Code, Codex and Cursor on your computer. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and cloud agents like Hermes through your remote. Anything that speaks MCP.

Does anything go through you?

No. Hoista runs on your computer and talks to your hosts directly. There’s no Hoista account and no Hoista server. Your remote runs on hosting you’ve connected, in your own account.

Can an agent do something I didn’t want?

Risky actions wait for your approval, and each agent has its own limits on what it can do and which apps it can reach. Every action is recorded.

Which accounts do I need?

Usually just one host to start. Hoista tells you when an app needs another account and walks you through it.

What does it cost?

Hoista is free. You pay your hosts directly for what they run, and Hoista shows what each one has billed you this period, side by side. A remote runs on one of your hosts, like any of your apps.

Your apps, your accounts,
your agents.

Download Hoista, connect one host and ask your agent to deploy something. It takes about five minutes.

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