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Portacode AI · builds on real machines

What do you want to build?

Describe it in plain language. Portacode builds it on a real machine, then hands you the keys — no lock-in, no surprise bills, no limits on your stack.

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It's yours Ordinary files on an ordinary machine.
No lock-in Back up and move it in one click.
No surprise bills Your hardware or ours, per project.
No constraints If it runs on Linux, it runs here.

How it works

Three steps, and you keep everything

Most AI builders hand you a preview that lives inside their product. Portacode hands you a working machine you can walk away with.

Describe it

A sentence or two is enough. No config files, no setup checklist, no account wizard before you get to the interesting part.

Portacode builds it

Real terminal, real git, real deploys — on a machine you can SSH into. Every change is reviewable as a diff before it lands.

Keep it, or take it

Export the whole project, move it to another server, or self-host it entirely. Leaving is a supported workflow, not a support ticket.

Ownership

You stay in control of the thing you built

The parts that usually get decided for you — where it runs, what it costs, what it's written in, and whether you can leave — stay your call.

Everything you build is yours

Source, data, containers, and config are plain files on a plain Linux box. There is no proprietary format to unpick later, because there was never one to begin with.

Leaving is a first-class feature

One-click backups and path transfers move an entire project between machines. We would rather make migration easy than make it the reason you stay.

No surprise bills

Run it on hardware you already pay for — a spare laptop, a homelab box, a VPS, a Proxmox node — or on ours. Choose per project, and change your mind later.

No constraints on what you build

Any language, any framework, any database, any binary you can install. It is a real machine, not a sandbox with an approved-runtime list.

And it fits in your pocket

Review the diff on the bus

Portacode was built mobile-first, so approving an AI change or shipping a hotfix does not require getting back to a desk.

  • Read every AI change line by line before it lands.
  • Browse the tree, branch, and git status from your pocket.
  • The agent only touches what you explicitly allow.

Start with one sentence

You do not need to know what you are doing yet. Describe the outcome and let Portacode work out the machine.