dotcommoners rebuilds the infrastructure most teams rent — orchestration, streaming, browser automation, observability — as MIT-licensed software you own and operate on your own hardware. Written in Rust, Zig, and Python.
dotcommoners is an open-source organization that rebuilds the infrastructure most teams rent — orchestration, streaming, browser automation, observability — as MIT-licensed software you own and operate on your own hardware.
Modern platforms are increasingly assembled out of metered SaaS. dotcommoners takes the opposite bet — that the core building blocks should be open source, self-hostable, and yours.
We focus on the load-bearing parts of a stack — the systems that must be fast, correct, and horizontally scalable.
Scheduling and managing distributed workloads across a fleet — placing work on the right node without a central bottleneck.
Moving events to clients at scale — Server-Sent Events, fan-out, and topic routing over a brokerless mesh.
RevenProx →Running isolated browsers at fleet scale — creating, scheduling, and parking instances across many nodes.
Machineuse →Understanding what your systems are doing — metrics, traces, and signals you own rather than ship to a vendor.
Each project is production-oriented, documented, and self-hostable. Pick a piece, run it on your own hardware, and read the source.
Run browser automation at fleet scale, on hardware you own.
Fan out real-time events to 10M+ connections, brokerless.
The values behind every project. Read more on the principles page.
Everything is MIT-licensed. Fork it, patch it, ship it — no proprietary control plane, no licensing fees.
On-premise deployment is the design goal, not a paid tier. Run it on a laptop, a homelab, or a fleet of edge nodes.
Rust and Zig where microseconds and memory matter; Python where an ergonomic control plane and rich ecosystem win.
Brokerless architectures with no central bottleneck and no single point of failure. Horizontal scale is built in.
Nothing phones home. If dotcommoners vanished tomorrow, you would still have the full source and could run it forever.
Real docs at docs.dotcommoners.com, clear architecture notes, and source you can actually follow and contribute to.
No proprietary control plane, no metered backend. Pull the images, point them at your nodes, and run production-grade streaming and browser automation entirely on infrastructure you own.
# Self-host the whole stack on your own nodes
services:
revenprox:
image: dotcommoners/revenprox
connections: 10_000_000 # across the mesh
mesh: brokerless-nng
auth: jwt
machineuse:
image: dotcommoners/machineuse
workers: 64
dormancy: snapshot # park idle browsersTeams building internal platforms who want auditable, self-hosted building blocks instead of another metered dependency.
People who prefer to run their own services and want production-grade infrastructure they fully control.
Engineers who care about how things work under the hood and want source they can read, extend, and contribute to.
dotcommoners is an open-source organization building high-performance, self-hostable infrastructure and systems software. Its public projects include Machineuse, a distributed container manager for browser automation at scale, and RevenProx, a Server-Sent Events proxy written in Zig.
Yes. dotcommoners projects are open source under the permissive MIT license and are designed to be self-hosted on your own infrastructure with no vendor lock-in.
Projects favour performance-first systems languages — primarily Rust and Zig — with Python where an ergonomic control plane and rich ecosystem matter, as in Machineuse.
Every project has a public GitHub repository with documentation and a quick-start. Browse the projects, read the docs at docs.dotcommoners.com, or email contact@dotcommoners.com.
Explore the source, read the docs, or get in touch. Contributions and questions welcome.