# hocus-dev/hocus

🪄 Spin up ready-to-code, disposable dev environments on your own servers. Self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and Github Codespaces.

Repository: https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hocus
Homepage: https://hocus.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-09-28T12:23:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1510, "days_push": 704, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3194, forks 88 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:48.257606+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: developer-tools, container-runtime, self-hosted, deployment
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: dev-environments, cloud-ide, gitpod-alternative, codespaces-alternative, disposable-workspaces, virtualization, archived, devops, linux, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- hocus-dev/hocus (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.257606+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:54.509977+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.257606+00:00, sha b293555f882f)
  - homepage: https://hocus.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:56.917013+00:00, sha f9c0093a9ae5)
  - site_page: https://hocus.dev/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:56.926609+00:00, sha dedbb8ddb650)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.