Smallweb – A self-hostable personal cloud inspired by CGI-bin

Smallweb is inspired both by serverless platforms (e.g. cloudflare workers and val.town), and older standards like cgi-bin. To create a new app, you just create a new file, and you're basically done.

Try out the demo at https://demo.smallweb.live

Smallweb is super easy to self-host (you can even keep it local to your device). It is distributed as a single golang binary, and there is an install script allowing you to set it up on a new VPS with a single command (https work out of the box, no need to set DNS records):

curl -sSL https://install.smallweb.run/vps.sh | sh

Since the app is based on deno, it supports url imports. It allows you to host complex apps like vscode or excalidraw by writing 3 lines of code: https://www.smallweb.run/examples#excalidraw

We also have a small community at https://discord.smallweb.run !