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## In short

**Run it, share it, ship it. From one window.** A desktop app that hosts your web apps on your own machine, puts them on the internet, and deploys them to the cloud when you're ready.

#### What it solves

- A terminal for the dev server, another for the tunnel, and a Dockerfile nobody finished. → Serve works out what the project is, keeps it running, and shows it all in one place.
- The link the client was sent has no password on it. → Public tunnels and your own domains, with password protection and rate limiting.
- The side project has to be on AWS by Friday. → It writes the Dockerfile and deploys to AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, with the cost estimated first.

#### Why it is different

- **14 Project types detected** — From a static folder to Django, with no config written.
- **5 Cloud targets** — AWS ECS, App Runner, Cloud Run, Azure and Docker Hub.
- **1 Proxy that records it all** — Live logs, response times, status codes and top paths per app.
- **3 Apps, free for good** — The free tier covers the whole journey, from localhost to the cloud, for three apps.

Built for: Freelancers showing clients, Small dev teams, Workshop leaders, Side projects going live.

## The product

### Tessera Serve

https://serve.par2labs.com/

Local Hosting · Coming Soon · v1.0

A desktop app that hosts your web apps on your own machine, puts them on the internet, and deploys them to the cloud when you're ready.

Host it on your machine. Share it with the world. Ship it to the cloud.

Tessera Serve turns your own machine into a host for your web apps. Start one from a template — React, Next.js, Express, Flask, Vue, SvelteKit and more — or bring an existing project, and group the apps that belong together. Put any of them on the internet through a public tunnel or your own domain, with password protection and rate limiting, and manage the DNS through Cloudflare. When it's time for the cloud, it builds a Docker image, deploys it to AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, and tracks what it will cost. Live logs, request analytics and an estimate of how many users this machine can serve are all built in.

*Screens — From localhost to the world, in one app.*

#### Proof

**Counted in the app, not written by marketing.**
  Stats:
  - **14** — Project types detected, from static folders to Django
  - **5** — Cloud targets: AWS ECS, App Runner, Cloud Run, Azure, Docker Hub
  - **4** — Database engines, provisioned as real containers
  - **8** — Per-app tabs: overview, metrics, exposure, deploy, logs, cluster, inspector, settings
  - **1,898** — Tests across 159 files

#### Features

- **App Templates** — React, Next.js, Express, Flask, Vue, SvelteKit and more — or your own project.
- **Public Tunnels** — Put a local app on the internet in a click, or over raw TCP.
- **Custom Domains** — Point your own domain at an app, with DNS through Cloudflare.
- **Cloud Deploy** — Docker builds to AWS, Google Cloud Run, Azure or Docker Hub.
- **Logs & Analytics** — Live logs, plus response times, status codes and top paths per app.
- **Capacity & Cost** — How many users this machine can serve, and what the cloud will cost.

#### What it is for

- You built it this afternoon and the client wants to see it this evening.
- Your team of four each has a different tunnel and deploy ritual, and nobody knows what is running where.
- You run workshops, and "everyone install a tunnel client" costs the first twenty minutes.
- The prototype needs a real Postgres behind it, and you do not want to write Docker config to get one.
- The side project is suddenly real and has to live on AWS by Friday.

#### Specifications

- **Platforms**: macOS · Windows
- **Templates**: React · Next.js · Express · Flask · Vue · SvelteKit
- **Exposure**: Public tunnels · custom domains · TCP
- **Cloud**: AWS ECS · App Runner · Cloud Run · Azure · Docker Hub
- **Protection**: Password access · rate limiting

#### Architecture — One window owns the whole journey.

https://serve.par2labs.com/architecture

Detect, run, expose, observe, ship. Every competing tool owns a single stage of that chain — a deploy platform, a tunnel service, a self-hosting panel — and leaves you to stitch the rest together yourself.

**What owning the whole chain buys you**
  Items:
  - **Protection without writing auth** — Password access and rate limits are applied at Serve's own proxy, so a prototype with no auth code in it can still be handed to a client safely.
  - **Numbers a client experienced** — Analytics are recorded at the proxy rather than inside the app, so the request count and P95 are what actually reached the browser.
  - **A real database in one click** — Four engines as real Docker containers, each returning a connection string ready to paste into the app's .env — no Docker config to write.
  - **One place when it gets real** — The same window that started the app writes the Dockerfile, checks prerequisites, deploys it and then tracks what the running service costs.

**The specification.**

#### Features — Fifteen screens and eight per-app tabs.

https://serve.par2labs.com/features

Grouped by the stage of the job you are in: run it, share it, watch it, manage it. Three screens in the app are marked coming soon, and they are on this page as a roadmap rather than in the feature list.

**Every screen, one at a time.**

#### Pricing — Free for three apps, and genuinely no account.

https://serve.par2labs.com/pricing

The Starter tier is anonymous rather than a trial: no sign-up stands between you and the first public URL. Paid tiers add unlimited apps, your own domains and the clouds to ship to.

**Questions we actually get.**
  Items:
  - **Is the free tier really account-free?** — Yes. Starter is anonymous — nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify. Three applications, public tunnels, access protection, analytics and logs, on one machine.
  - **What happens if my licence cannot check in?** — There is a seven-day offline grace on Pro and Team, fourteen on Enterprise. After that the app falls back to Starter and your apps keep running — the paid features lock, but nothing you deployed goes down.
  - **Does it replace AWS?** — No — it deploys to AWS. Serve runs your app locally, puts it on the internet, and then pushes it to ECS, App Runner, Cloud Run, Azure Container Apps or Docker Hub when the prototype becomes real.
  - **Can I put a password on an app that has no login?** — Yes, and this is one of the better reasons to use it. Access protection and rate limiting are applied at Serve's own reverse proxy, so the app itself needs no auth code at all.
  - **Are containers, networking and CI/CD included?** — Not yet. All three screens exist in the app and are marked coming soon there, so they are on the features page as a roadmap. Team includes CI/CD when it ships.

## Who makes it

PAR2 LABS PVT LTD — Technology . AI . Strategy . Films.

We engineer world-class technology and AI products across intelligence, infrastructure, hardware, and story — designed to make sense, deployed to make a difference.

Studio: https://par2labs.com · Contact: ceo@par2labs.com · +91 90591 69238