- Open source
CubHouse
Private, invite-only family photo sharing you host yourself. Guardians decide who sees each photo. No ads, no tracking, no third parties.
Custom system design and build
The system you need, designed, built and run for you.
StarlingTek designs and builds custom websites, web apps, internal tools and automations. Then we host and run what we build, on a platform we wrote and look after ourselves, so you never have to think about servers, certificates or backups.
- Websites
- Web apps
- Internal tools
- Automations
Services
Design, build, and keep it running
The same shop from the first conversation to the server it runs on, so nothing gets lost between whoever builds it and whoever hosts it.
Custom design and build
Discovery, architecture, build and launch for a site, web app, internal tool or automation that fits how you actually work.
Managed hosting of what we build
What we build, we run: automatic HTTPS, health-checked deploys, uptime alerts, backups and updates, on a monthly plan.
Bring your own
Already have a system? We migrate it and take over running it, with monitoring, backups, updates, security and Cloudflare DNS.
How we work
Discover, design, build, launch, run
The same five steps for every project, whatever its size.
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Discover
We talk through what you need, who uses it and what it has to connect to. We write it up so we agree on what's being built.
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Design
We plan the architecture, the data and the screens, and pick the simplest tools that do the job well.
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Build
We build it in small steps you can see and try, with the code kept in a GitHub repository.
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Launch
It goes live on StarlingTek with HTTPS, monitoring and backups in place from day one, and your domain set up through Cloudflare.
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Run
We keep it running: updates, alerts, backups and fixes, on a monthly hosting plan.
Built on StarlingTek
Systems running on the platform
A few of the sites StarlingTek hosts today.
bookwrms.org
A simple home library: catalogue your books and keep track of who's borrowed what.
Samuel Sermons
A quiet archive of sermons by the late Rev. Samuel Starling, a Methodist minister, kept for family and friends.
tylerstarling.com
A personal portfolio site.
Current projects
What we're building in the open
Two open-source projects from StarlingTek, separate from the hosting.
- Open source
- Prototype: eligibility rules not yet expert-verified
OpenBridge
An open-source benefits screener that checks SNAP, Medicaid, CHIP and WIC in one pass, shows the math behind every result, and runs entirely in your browser. No account, no tracking.
The platform
What everything runs on
Every system we host runs on StarlingTek, a platform we wrote. All of this works today, from the stk command line or the web admin panel.
Deploys and rollbacks
Health-checked deploys from GitHub, a deploy history with full logs, and rollback to any kept image.
Automatic HTTPS
Let's Encrypt certificates through Caddy, and a certificates view that shows every name, its expiry, and why a renewal failed.
Cloudflare DNS wizard
Points a domain's records at the server, sets up the www redirect, and warns about Cloudflare settings that block certificates.
Uptime checks and alerts
One-minute checks, 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day history, and one alert per incident to ntfy or Discord.
Managed Postgres and backups
Connects a system to a managed DigitalOcean database, with daily or weekly dumps that are read back to check them and copied to Spaces.
A code for every change
Deploys, rollbacks and removals need the site name typed and a fresh authenticator code, and all of it goes in an audit log.
Admin panel
How we keep an eye on things
Deploys, rollbacks, logs, certificates, domains and backups, in one place. Screenshots use made-up sites and addresses.
Pricing
Builds are quoted, hosting is monthly
Each custom build is quoted per project once we know what it needs. Hosting, for what we build or what you bring, is a plain monthly plan with Cloudflare DNS included, and you can cancel any time with 30 days' notice.
Have something in mind?
Tell us what you want to build, or what you already have, and we'll tell you honestly whether StarlingTek is a good fit.