coolLabs
Software without compromise
coolLabs develops open-source tools for developers across self-hosting, AI agents, social publishing and related areas. The projects are free to use, with no paywalled features; the company states it has no investors and is funded through sponsors, Cloud customers and merch sales.
Its projects include Coolify, a self-hostable platform for deploying apps, databases and one-click services to your own servers, and Jean, a development environment for running AI agents in parallel in isolated worktrees with Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode, available on desktop, server and web. Shoutrrr handles drafting once and posting across social channels, while Fonts is a privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts. The lineup also includes Serverless Horrors and LLM Horrors blogs.
coolLabs targets developers who want self-hosted and open-source tooling. Every project is open source and free, with no paid editions, trials or seat-based plans described; support for the projects comes from sponsors, Cloud customers and merch buyers.
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