# nixopus/nixopus

Run production apps without thinking about infrastructure. On your server or ours. Fully agentic.

Repository: https://github.com/nixopus/nixopus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nixopus
Homepage: https://nixopus.com
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: heroku, netlify, self-hosted, vercel, vps, ci-cd, deployment, golang, nextjs, typescript, terminal, vps-server, coolify, agents, ai, ai-agents, infrastructure, mcp, server, cursor
Last push: 2026-05-16T11:58:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 71, longevity 39
- inputs: {"age_days": 558, "days_push": 109, "days_rel": 114, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 161}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1458, forks 134 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:47.120895+00:00)

## What it is
Nixopus is an open-source deployment platform with an autonomous AI agent that deploys, monitors, and heals applications. It can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure or used via Nixopus Cloud, with a dashboard, chat interface, and editor extension.

## Use cases
- deploy apps to my own vps without writing configs
- self-hosted heroku or vercel alternative
- let an ai agent deploy and fix my app failures
- monitor and auto-heal production apps on my server
- deploy a github repo from my editor or terminal
- manage multi-server app orchestration
- run production apps without thinking about infrastructure

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted PaaS like Coolify or Dokku but with AI-assisted deployment and healing
- you deploy from GitHub repos and want config generation and failure recovery automated
- you want full machine access on your own VPS with a dashboard and chat interface

## When to avoid
- you need a mature platform with long-term enterprise support and a permissive license
- you prefer fully declarative infrastructure-as-code pipelines over agent-driven deploys
- you only need simple static site hosting without server management

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: deployment, ci-cd, agent-framework, monitoring, self-hosted, chat-interface, mcp
- domain: cloud-computing, self-hosted, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, cli
- tags: paas, heroku-alternative, vercel-alternative, coolify-alternative, autonomous-agent, vps, deployment-platform, editor-extension, devops, ai-agents, automation, web-server, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- nixopus/nixopus (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.120895+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 2026-08-30T04:35:30.968179+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nixopus/nixopus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.120895+00:00, sha 6ebb25ce86d2)
  - homepage: https://nixopus.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:22.640303+00:00, sha eac7d2ebc146)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.