About
Hi, I'm Armandas. I built AODE because I was tired of renting my own servers back.
I'm a solo developer from Vilnius, Lithuania. For years my side projects lived in too many places at once — a couple on Vercel, a few on random VPS boxes glued together with shell scripts I'd forgotten the shape of, the occasional surprise bill when something I shipped got a little bit of traffic. Every project had its own way of being deployed, and the only person who remembered the steps was me.
The frustrating part was that I already owned a perfectly good server. I had root. I had the CPU and the RAM sitting mostly idle. What I didn't have was the one thing the hosted platforms actually sell you: a panel. Push to a branch, watch it build, get a URL with SSL, roll back when you break it. I wanted that — but on hardware I controlled, with costs I could predict.
So I spent about a year building it. AODE started as a tool for exactly one user, me, and it grew into a real deployment platform: git push to deploy, automatic Let's Encrypt certificates, Docker isolation, a reverse proxy that configures itself, deployment history with one-click rollback, a database browser. One install script turns a bare VPS into something that feels like Vercel, except you own the whole thing.
These days I run my entire setup on it. This landing page you're reading is deployed through AODE. So is the live demo, the client-style apps I keep online, and even my mail server — all managed from the same panel. I dogfooded it for months before I ever put it up for sale. I wasn't going to ask anyone to trust software with their infrastructure that I wasn't trusting with mine.
Being straight with you
What AODE is, and what it isn't
Let me be clear about a couple of things up front, because I'd rather you buy with your eyes open. AODE is a paid, source-availableproduct — not open source. The source ships to you and lives on your server, but it's a commercial license, not an MIT repo you can fork and redistribute.
And it's built and maintained by one person: me. I think that's a feature, not an apology. It means the support email goes straight to the person who wrote the code. It means there are no investors pushing me to bolt on an upsell, no growth team wiring in telemetry, no dark patterns nudging you toward a plan you don't need. But it's honest to say it out loud: it's one developer, not a company with a floor of engineers. The 14-day money-back guarantee and the fact that it runs entirely on your own hardware are there precisely so that betting on a solo project stays low-risk.
What I believe
Software on your own hardware shouldn't charge rent
This is the belief the whole thing is built on. When software runs on a server you own, the maker shouldn't get to bill you every month for the privilege of it continuing to run. That's why AODE is a one-time purchase of $49.99— you buy it once, you own that version forever, and there's no subscription meter running in the background. No seat pricing, no per-project fee, no plan you get quietly bumped off.
The other belief is simpler: honesty over marketing. I'd rather tell you the real trade-offs and let you decide than dress the product up in hype. If AODE isn't the right fit for you, I want you to figure that out before you pay, not after.
Why you can trust this
The reasons this is a safe thing to try
It keeps running without me
AODE is self-hosted. It installs on your VPS and runs there — no call home, no license server it depends on to boot, no remote kill switch. If I disappear tomorrow, your install keeps deploying your apps exactly as it did the day before.
The source is on your server
It is source-available: the full source ships with your license and sits on your own machine. You can read it, audit it, patch it, and understand exactly what is touching your infrastructure. There is no telemetry and nothing phones home.
14 days to change your mind
Every purchase comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee — email me and I refund it, no questions asked. Between that and the self-hosted nature, the downside of trying it is close to zero.
Support email reaches a person
I use AODE every day to run my own things, so I feel the rough edges before you do. When you email info@theaode.com, you reach me — the person who wrote the code — not a ticket queue.
If any of that resonates, the easiest way to get a feel for it is to click around the live demo — no signup, no card. And if you'd rather just read the numbers, the pricing is one page and one price.
Questions? Email me directly at info@theaode.com. A real person — me — reads it.