Homestead

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Homestead

Build and deploy apps for you, your family, and your agents.

Homestead is an open-source, self-hosted platform for building and deploying personal apps for you, your family, and your AI agents. Building a personal app is normally too difficult: app reviews, sideloading, and a backend to run. Homestead lets you build personal apps and share them with only your family, easily.

$ npm install -g @rambleraptor/homestead-cli
$ homestead init && homestead start

Authentication

Email/password or OAuth. You can make sure certain people only access certain apps.

Offline support

The basement, the car, the cabin. Your edits sync when you're back.

CLI

Your agents can use it too, and only see what you let them.

AI

A chatbot wired into your data — only if you want one.

Push notifications

Nudge the whole house, or just yourself.

Bulk import

Upload CSV files with configuration only.