Mini
100% open-source · MIT licensed

Your Mac Mini is a cloud server

We just wanted to sit around with Claude and build stuff for fun without getting bankrupted by cloud providers. So we built Mini — everything you need to run production services from a box on your desk.

Zero cloud bills

One-command deploys

Free forever

Why Mini?

Why self-host on a Mac Mini?

All the power of the cloud. None of the bills.

Developer Experience

Ship in seconds, not hours.

Run mini deploy and your app is live with a public URL, TLS certificates, and health checks. No YAML hell, no kubectl, no cloud console. Just code and ship.

Deploy workflow

The math is simple

One-time hardware cost. Electricity only after that.

AWS t3.medium$30/mo
Renting a fraction of someone else’s computer
DigitalOcean$24/mo
Shared CPU, noisy neighbors, egress fees
Vercel Pro$20/mo
Per-seat pricing, cold starts, vendor lock-in
Mac Mini + Mini$0
Your hardware, your rules, unlimited everything

A Mac Mini running 24/7 costs ~$4/mo in electricity. That’s it.

MIT Licensed

Stop renting computers from strangers

Mini is free, open-source, and yours to fork. No subscriptions, no usage limits, no vendor lock-in. Just you, your Mac, and a curl command.

Kubernetes under the hood, vibes on top

Docker, Cloudflare Tunnels, gRPC health checks, rolling deploys — all the serious infra, wrapped in a single CLI that just works. You vibe code it, Mini runs it.

mini deployOne command. Your app is live with a public URL, TLS, and health checks. No YAML hell, no kubectl.
Cloudflare TunnelNo port forwarding, no static IP. Traffic flows through Cloudflare’s edge network straight to your Mac Mini.
Docker ComposeDefine services the way you already know. Mini wraps Compose with routing, monitoring, and auto-restarts.
gRPC DaemonA lightweight daemon manages your fleet. Health checks, log aggregation, and service discovery — always running.
M4
PlatformApple M4
Memory16 GB Unified
Power~5W idle
Uptime99.9%