hocus-dev/hocus
🪄 Spin up ready-to-code, disposable dev environments on your own servers. Self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and Github Codespaces. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1510
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 704
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3194 stars · 88 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Hocus is a self-hosted platform for spinning up ready-to-code, disposable development environments on your own servers, using virtual machines for strong isolation. It is a self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces, written in TypeScript.
Use cases
- spin up disposable dev environments on my own servers
- self-hosted alternative to gitpod
- self-hosted alternative to github codespaces
- give each developer an isolated workspace on a shared machine
- run docker inside a dev environment without privileged containers
- prebuild development environments in CI
When to choose
- you want cloud development environments hosted on your own infrastructure
- you need strong VM-based isolation between developer workspaces
- you want a Gitpod or Codespaces alternative you fully control
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project - it was archived in September 2024
- you want commercial support or new features
- you prefer a maintained alternative like Devpod or Coder
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
developer-tools container-runtime self-hosted deployment developer-tools cloud-computing self-hosted self-hosted dev-environments cloud-ide gitpod-alternative codespaces-alternative disposable-workspaces virtualization archived devops linux docker web-server
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus · fetched 2026-08-28 · b293555f882f
- homepage: https://hocus.dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · f9c0093a9ae5
- site_page: https://hocus.dev/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · dedbb8ddb650
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| hocus-dev/hocus | main | 10 |
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