- Open source
CubHouse
Private, invite-only family photo sharing you host yourself. Guardians decide who sees each photo. No ads, no tracking, no third parties.
Services
Designed, built and run in one place
StarlingTek does three things. We design and build custom systems, we host and run what we build, and we take over running systems you already have. Whoever builds it also runs it, from the first sketch to the server.
01 · Design and build
Custom system design and build
For when nothing off the shelf quite fits. We build what you need and nothing you don't.
- Discovery: what the system has to do, who uses it, what it connects to, and what "done" looks like.
- Architecture: the data, the screens and the moving parts, using plain, well-known tools that are easy to keep running.
- Build: in small steps you can see and try along the way.
- Launch: live on StarlingTek with HTTPS, monitoring and backups from the first day.
What that can be
- Websites
- A site for a person, a family, a club or a small business.
- Web apps
- Sign-ins, records, uploads, a database behind it.
- Internal tools
- The spreadsheet that outgrew itself, turned into a proper tool.
- Automations
- Scheduled jobs and glue between the services you already use.
02 · Hosting
Managed hosting of what we build
Everything we build runs on StarlingTek, so there's no hand-off to a hosting company and no separate person to call.
- Automatic HTTPS, with certificates renewed for you.
- Updates deployed with a health check before any traffic moves, and a quick rollback if a release goes bad.
- Uptime checks every minute, with alerts that come to us.
- Database backups, checked when they're taken and copied off the server.
- Cloudflare DNS, managed for you.
03 · Bring your own
Bring-your-own hosting and migration
Already have a site or app, and want someone else to run it? We move it onto StarlingTek and take it from there.
- We look at what you have and tell you plainly what moving it involves.
- We migrate the code, data and domain, and check it all works before switching over.
- Then we run it: monitoring, backups, updates and security.
- Your DNS moves to Cloudflare, managed for you.
How we work
Discover, design, build, launch, run
The same five steps for every project. For a bring-your-own system, we start at discover and go straight to launch.
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Discover
We talk through what you need, who uses it and what it has to connect to. We write it up so we agree on what's being built.
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Design
We plan the architecture, the data and the screens, and pick the simplest tools that do the job well.
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Build
We build it in small steps you can see and try, with the code kept in a GitHub repository.
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Launch
It goes live on StarlingTek with HTTPS, monitoring and backups in place from day one, and your domain set up through Cloudflare.
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Run
We keep it running: updates, alerts, backups and fixes, on a monthly hosting plan.
Work
Things we've designed and built
StarlingTek itself, the sites it hosts, and two open-source projects.
StarlingTek
The hosting platform everything here runs on: deploys, monitoring, rollback, backups and an admin panel.
bookwrms.org
A simple home library: catalogue your books and keep track of who's borrowed what.
tylerstarling.com
A personal portfolio site.
Current projects
What we're building in the open
Two open-source projects from StarlingTek, separate from the hosting.
- Open source
- Prototype: eligibility rules not yet expert-verified
OpenBridge
An open-source benefits screener that checks SNAP, Medicaid, CHIP and WIC in one pass, shows the math behind every result, and runs entirely in your browser. No account, no tracking.
Start a conversation
Custom builds are quoted per project. Tell us what you have in mind and we'll come back with an honest view of what it takes.