You bring the app. Softkiln handles everything it takes to run it safely in front of real people.
Connect what you’ve built or start from a template. There’s nothing to install and no servers to pick — Softkiln takes it from here.
Softkiln creates the app, gives it a database, and sets up two separate copies: a private one where you try things, and the live one your users see. You are never asked to choose a server size, a region or an operating system, because that decision has already been made and is the same for every app.
Your app gets its own web address with the padlock, your secrets get locked away, and automatic backups start running — all without you lifting a finger.
The certificate behind the padlock is issued and renewed for you, so it cannot quietly expire. Keys and passwords move out of the code into encrypted storage and are handed to the app only while it runs — they never reach the page a visitor downloads, which is where they most often leak. Backups begin on a schedule straight away, and are checked by actually restoring them rather than by trusting that the job ran.
Hit publish and your app is online, watched around the clock, and checked for leaked keys — with a tidy status page your users can check.
Publishing promotes your private copy to the live one without taking the app down, so nobody sees an error while it happens. From then on uptime and response times are watched continuously, with ninety days of history behind a status page you can send people to. Every release is scanned for credentials first, and one that would expose a key is stopped before it ships.
Tweak it whenever you like. Changes are live in moments, and one click undoes a mistake — so you never have to be afraid to ship.
Try the change in the private copy, look at it, then publish when you are happy. If it turns out wrong, one action puts the previous version back, and restoring a backup brings the data back with it. Nothing you do here is one-way, which is the point: the reason people stop changing their app is that they are frightened of breaking it.
Not shortcuts — these jobs stop existing. They are the reason a working prototype usually stalls before it reaches anyone.
The running application and its backups sit in EU infrastructure. It is not a setting you have to find and switch on.
Every app gets a softkiln.com address immediately. On Pro you point your own domain at it — for the app and for its status page — and the certificate is renewed for you from then on.
The private copy and the live one are genuinely apart, with their own data and their own secrets, so trying something out cannot reach your users.
Start free and have something live in the next ten minutes.