Everything AppCrane has written down
Two posts so far, newest first. Both are the same subject from different angles: what changes when the thing deploying your software is an agent, and the server it deploys onto is one you own.
Sixty-seven open-source business apps, two clicks each →
ERP, CRM, helpdesk, wiki, BI, e-signature — 67 self-hostable apps that install onto your own server with the database provisioned and the credentials wired in before the container starts.
Why AppCrane now speaks MCP →
Drop the in-portal coding sandbox and bring the agent you already use. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client drives the deploy, with per-user audit and a GitHub-native flow.
What these posts are describing
AppCrane is a self-hosted platform for the apps a team builds with an AI agent: Docker isolation per app, Caddy with automatic HTTPS, a sandbox and a production environment per app, and an MCP endpoint so the agent does the deploying. It runs on an Ubuntu 22.04 or newer server you control, and it is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence — a separate commercial licence exists for running private modifications as a service.