Starfort is a home server that arrives ready. Your photos, your films, your files, your smart home — all of it living on a machine in your house, on drives you can hold. Nothing to set up. No monthly bill. Nobody who can take it back.
Photos
Twelve years of photos, and the phone in your pocket wants a few dollars a month to keep holding them. Starfort takes all of it — every photo and video at full resolution, originals untouched — and backs up by itself the moment you walk through the door.
Films & series
Licenses lapse and catalogs get quietly rewritten overnight. What sits on your Starfort stays on your Starfort — your films, your series, your music, playing to every screen in the house, in a room with no signal, ten years from now.
Files
Documents, projects, the archive you've been dragging between laptops since college — synced across every device exactly the way the service you pay for now does it. Except the disk is in your house, and the price never goes up.
Always on
Starfort never goes to standby. Hand an agent a job — clean up the week's downloads, watch a page for a change, keep the archive in order, draft the thing you've been avoiding — and it runs at three in the morning, on your machine, with your files, not on somebody else's rented hardware.
Your home
Lights, locks, sensors, cameras, heating — all answering locally, in the time it takes to flip a switch. Still working when the internet drops. Still working when the company that sold you the bulb decides to turn the service off.
Setting up
Every app above is already there, already running, already talking to the others. You are not installing software. You are plugging in a computer that is finished.
Power and your router. It finds itself on the network and comes up on its own.
One screen, everything on it. Your phone, your laptop, whatever's to hand.
Point it at your photos, your files, your music. It pulls them home and keeps them.
What's on it
All of it open-source, all of it running the day it arrives, all of it yours to keep running long after we've stopped being involved.
Every photo and video, full resolution, backed up automatically from your phone.
Your films, series and music, streamed to every screen in the house.
Files and folders synced across your devices, with proper version history.
An agent that works through the night on your machine, with your files.
Lights, locks, heating and cameras, controlled locally and privately.
Ads and trackers stripped out for every device on your network, before they load.
Your repositories and their history, on a machine that answers to you.
New apps arrive as updates. Every one of them free, for as long as you own it.
Before you ask
No. If you can plug in a router, you can run a Starfort. There is no terminal, no configuration file, no tutorial to follow. The parts that are genuinely complicated — containers, networking, storage, encryption — are our problem, and they stay our problem.
Drives fail; that's why there's more than one, and why the machine tells you before it becomes your problem. Early access includes direct support from the people who built the thing, for as long as you own it — not a help center, not a chatbot.
Yes, through a private connection between your devices and your Starfort. Nothing is published to the open internet, no ports are opened on your router, and your traffic doesn't pass through us.
On the drives inside the box on your shelf. Not a copy in our data center, not a cache we can read. If you want an encrypted off-site backup you can switch one on, and if you don't, nothing ever leaves the house.
You keep everything. The software underneath is open-source and widely used, your files sit in ordinary formats on ordinary disks, and the machine goes on running without us — no license check, no server to phone home to. A company you depend on shouldn't be able to take your things with it, including this one.
Early access
We're building the first batch now. People who come in at this stage get it at cost, keep every feature we ever ship, and can reach us directly for as long as they own it.