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Welcome back!

But wait, this is my first time using Autodock, why am I being welcomed back?
We missed you. In 1993, you or someone you know was using a simple, no-frills server for developing software. Then the cloud came and created all sorts of logistical and financial barriers between you and your staging environment. Autodock takes you back to 1993. We give you a simple, affordable, instantly-reachable staging environment where you can hack on and preview software. As development has evolved slightly since 1993, we give you a few additional tools to make your experience more pleasant.
  1. We intelligently pause and restart your dev server to maximize cost efficiency.
  2. Our environments’ full history is observable via MCP, from logs to network calls to files.
  3. Ports are permissive by default and linked to a human-readable URL.
  4. We fill the dev box with a boatload of software you may find useful.

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Quickstart

Add Autodock’s MCP server to your AI coding tool:
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • VS Code
  • Other
Click this link to auto-configure Cursor:Add Autodock to Cursor
Once connected, just ask your agent to spin up a dev server: 
"Launch an Autodock environment for me"
From there, you can:
  • Sync code from your local machine to the dev box
  • Run commands remotely without leaving your agent
  • Expose ports and share preview links with colleagues
  • Debug with the built-in runner MCP and browser listener

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Autodock’s story

My name is Mike, and I’m the founder and sole-employee of Autodock. In addition to hacking on Autodock, I make my living doing several software development gigs. I created Autodock because no one out there is selling a good staging environment. I often need to spin up a preview of a PR with a frontend, backend, a DB, some storage, and some secrets. All of the services that offer to do this “out of the box” don’t really work. I found that creating and ssh-ing into VMs, pulling my repo(s), and spinning up services was, on balance, faster. Of course, this flow has its own set of issues. I started writing some scripts to overcome them, and the scripts turned into a pile of golang, and a pile of golang turned into a company. All of my clients love Autodock, and at a certain point, I started selling it to them. Nowadays, I sell it to anyone who finds it useful. I’d be honored to earn your trust as a customer of Autodock.

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Getting Help

I personally answer all (legitimate) help emails sent to help@autodock.io. It doesn’t matter what plan you’re on. I’ll help you out. Maybe one day we’ll make a Discord server, but until then, just email me.