Built for demos, not DevOps
If you code with Cursor, Claude Code, or Aider, you can go from idea to working container in an evening. The code part is fast now. The "show it to someone" part — spinning up a server, wiring CI/CD, picking a hosting plan, configuring DNS — still isn't. We fixed that part.
If your app already builds into a Docker image, that's the whole prerequisite. Push once, get a live URL, paste it into a chat. Done in under a minute.
No repository connection, no YAML, no CI/CD pipeline, no custom CLI, no heavy hosting dashboard. Use free short-lived slots for one-off shares, or paid slots with a user-controlled lifetime up to one month.
Who is it for
Backend and full-stack devs shipping AI agents, APIs, MCP servers, Discord bots, RAG demos, or model-serving endpoints. Hackathon teams who need a live URL for the judges. Freelancers showing a client a working preview before final delivery. OSS maintainers who want a "Try it live" link in the README.
An API for spawning ephemeral preview environments from CI is on the way — useful for per-PR review apps and integration tests. Coming soon.
What it's not
Not a Heroku replacement. Not a production host. No SLA, no autoscaling, no compliance program. APPISH is the 2-minute loop: push → link → feedback. If you need 99.99%, you need a different tool — and that's fine.