Let AI agents build and deploy your app on your Mac. Then move it to the cloud.
ownpaas is a macOS app: local Kubernetes labs where your coding agent builds, tests and deploys your app in self-contained environments, and a control panel that shows what each agent did. When the app is ready, it moves to a small k3s cluster in your own Hetzner project.
ownpaas at a glance
Coming soon- Runs on
- macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon
- For agents
- Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Claude Desktop, any MCP client
- Planned price
- €129 a year or €14 a month, incl. VAT
- Outside the EU: $129 or $14, plus applicable sales tax
- Founding members
- €79 for the first year, the first 100
- Outside the EU: $79, plus applicable sales tax
- Trial
- 14 days, no account, no card
Not released: no download yet, not on sale yet. Paddle.com will sell the licence as merchant of record.
What you get
A lab on your Mac, and a control panel
Every part says how far it is. ownpaas is not released; In testing means built and being tested in the app.
Kubernetes on your MacPreview
k3s clusters on Linux VMs that run on Apple’s Virtualization framework, created from a template. A kubeconfig for you and one for your agent; the management cluster’s kubeconfig stays in the app.
The infrastructure around itIn testing
Servers, private networks, firewalls, load balancers, volumes, DNS zones and S3 buckets. They answer through the Hetzner Cloud API, so the hcloud CLI and Terraform work unchanged.
A project per agentIn testing
Each agent works in a project of its own, with its own token and limits, and every action is recorded with the token that started it. The agent never gets your cloud account’s token.
Reset and checkpointsIn testing
One call empties a project. A checkpoint saves it, the servers’ disks included, and restores it when a change went wrong, so the agent may try something risky.
An MCP server for your agentIn testing
Added to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Claude Desktop with one click; any other MCP client gets the entry to paste. Thin on purpose: projects, reset, checkpoints and the cost.
The control panelIn testing
Every resource, cluster and app of the lab, what each agent did, the checkpoints, and a kill switch per agent. Your Hetzner Cloud projects too, read-only until you allow changes.
How it works
From your Mac to your own cloud
Three steps. The lab runs on your Mac and keeps running when you close the window; the cloud parts run in your own account.
Step 1: Prepare, on your Mac
Your agent builds and tests the app
Kubernetes clusters, servers, private networks, load balancers, volumes, DNS and S3 run on your Mac. Each agent works in a project of its own; reset and checkpoints let it try something risky and go back.
- In testing the lab, the agent tools, reset and checkpoints
- Preview Kubernetes clusters
Step 2: Pre-publish, through a gateway
Show it to testers first
A gateway gives the app on your Mac a public address, through an encrypted tunnel. The gateway is a small server in your own cloud account and costs a few euros a month.
- In testing the gateway and its tunnel
- In development a login in front of the app and rate limits
Step 3: Publish, in your cloud account
Move to Cloud
The monthly cost comes first, item by item, then the move. A Kubernetes app goes to a small k3s cluster in your own Hetzner project, created and kept current by PaaSbox Clusters (€29 a month, incl. VAT, not bookable yet).
- In testing the cost preview and a Terraform export
- Planned the move into PaaSbox Clusters
The approach
Small, isolated environments
The idea behind the whole suite: an agent’s change is tried in an environment of its own before it reaches anything that matters, and every stage and every app gets a small environment instead of a share of a big one.
A project per task
When an agent breaks something, it breaks only its project. A reset or a checkpoint takes it back; nothing else was touched.
A small cluster per stage and app
Several small clusters instead of one large one that every stage and app shares. A failed upgrade or a runaway test reaches one stage of one app.
Built to be thrown away
Kubernetes stands up an app with its database, certificates and configuration the same way every time, on your Mac and in the cloud, so an environment can be rebuilt instead of repaired.
Who it is for
For people who build with agents
Developers who build with agents
You build cloud-native apps with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, and want the agent to work on real infrastructure without touching a real cloud account.
Teams that build on Hetzner Cloud
Terraform modules, controllers, hetzner-k3s or CI, tested against an API that answers like the real one, with no cost and nothing to clean up.
Companies and trainers
ownpaas on a Linux server, in your company’s cloud account, or as the labs of a training class. These setups are quoted individually: call me.
Price
Planned prices
ownpaas is not on sale yet. One licence covers the whole app, for personal and commercial use, on up to 3 Macs. Prices in euros include VAT; outside the EU, the same numbers in dollars, plus applicable sales tax.
Founding member
€79for the first year
incl. VAT
Outside the EU: $79 for the first year, plus applicable sales tax
For the first 100 buyers. After the first year the regular yearly price applies.
- The whole app, as it ships
- Updates while the licence is valid
- Support by email
Licence
€129per user per year
or €14 per user per month, incl. VAT
Outside the EU: $129 a year or $14 a month, plus applicable sales tax
A 14-day trial first, without an account or a card.
- The whole app, as it ships
- Updates while the licence is valid
- Support by email
Not on sale yet.
Free on request
€0
For maintainers of open-source projects and for teaching.
- The same licence
- Write a line about the project or the course
Paddle.com will be the reseller and merchant of record: it handles payment, VAT and the invoice. Telemetry is off; the licence check sends licence data only, once a week. A lab keeps working 30 days offline, and existing labs keep running when a licence ends. Pricing has the details.
The suite
Part of a suite
Tools and services for building, deploying and running apps with AI agents on servers you rent yourself. Each one is useful on its own.
ownpaasComing soon
The lab on your Mac and its control panel, where agents build, test and deploy. This site.
PaaSbox ClustersIn development
A k3s cluster on one server in your own Hetzner project, created and kept current by the PaaSbox portal, for production and non-production. A planned €29 per cluster per month, incl. VAT; not bookable yet. paasbox.com →
Cloud Viewer
An iPhone app that shows your Hetzner servers, their state and their cost, with a read-only token. With an account it also runs uptime checks and sends alerts. cloudviewer.app →
ownpaas builds and deploys; agents that operate apps in production, with approvals and tested changes, are the outlook of PaaSbox. The building blocks under ownpaas are being prepared for publication there as open source.