Self-hosted platforms
Web apps that do real work and that you actually own — a workshop platform, a financial portal, lab consoles. Built to run on one box with no SaaS bill and no lock-in.
Astro · React · Node · Python · SQLite
Studio · est. 2010
We make things you can run—and things you can hold.
Disher Solutions is a small, independent workshop: self-hosted software platforms, ESP32 and home automation, 3D printing, and security lab tooling. Real products, shipped and running.
What we do
Five benches, one workshop.
The work spans pixels and parts. Most projects pull from more than one of these.
ESP32 & home automation
Firmware, sensors, and smart-home integrations that bridge the physical and the digital — bringing rooms, devices, and data under one roof.
ESP32 · Home Assistant · MQTT
3D printing & parts
Functional parts, enclosures, jigs, and prototypes. From a sketch and a measurement to a thing you can hold, iterated until it fits.
CAD · FDM · prototyping
Training & demo tooling
Hands-on security education made practical: provisionable lab tenants, believable mock targets, and CTFs that run themselves.
Workshops · CTFs · DLP/ZTNA demos
Web design
Fast, hand-built web design
Sites that load instantly and stay out of their own way — hand-built, no page-builder bloat, no plugin treadmill. Dynamic where it earns its keep, static everywhere else, and easy for you to keep current.
HTML · CSS · just enough JS · no bloat
Things we make
A portfolio of builds.
Products in the wild and tooling for hire — each one self-hosted, each one real.
Workshop Control
A portable platform for running technical training — lab guide, challenge engine, and a real-time leaderboard in one tool you stand up yourself.
- Astro
- Fastify
- React
- SQLite
- Caddy
Payment Portal
A purpose-built portal that brings spreadsheet-grade correctness and a full audit trail to an owner-financed land contract.
- FastAPI
- SQLite
- HTMX
- Alpine.js
- Cloudflare Tunnel
Demo Server
A whole fictional company as six working enterprise apps — log in, navigate, and explore — as believable targets for DLP and zero-trust demos.
- Express
- Caddy
- Bootstrap
// more from the bench
- ZS One API WranglerWrangle a Zscaler lab from one console.For hire / license
- DisherNet LabManagerOne pane of glass for the whole home lab.In-house
- Fivefold PTA coaching brand built to last — and to maintain itself.Live
- Air-Quality MonitorAn ESP32 air station — live dashboard, wired into Home Assistant.Home build
The studio
One workshop. Software and silicon.
Disher Solutions has been at it since 2010. Today it’s the bench where a workshop platform, a financial portal, a fleet of lab tooling, a pile of ESP32 boards, and a 3D printer all share a table.
The thread through all of it: build the real thing, host it yourself, and make it good enough to hand someone else the keys. No retainers for vaporware — just tools that work the day you turn them on.
Self-hosted by default
One box, no third parties in the path, your data stays yours.
Built to be owned
Portable, documented, and yours to run — not rented back to you.
Shipped, not slideware
Everything here is running in production right now, not a mockup.
Start a project
Let’s make something.
Software, a smart-home build, a printed part, or licensing one of the tools above — tell me what you’re after and I’ll tell you how I’d build it.
or email matt@dishersolutions.com