Aaron, the person behind Cloudbase
Who's behind this

It's me. Aaron, in Harrisburg.

Someone asked me how they could get their own Cockpit. That's the whole reason this is a product. Here's the part that matters more than my name: I've spent since 2007 managing projects, people and change in corporate IT, and I still do it every day. Cloudbase is that discipline with the committee removed.

I have a day job and a pile of projects on the side, and for years I ran all of it out of a Flask app on a server under a different name. Projects first, then mileage because of the driving, then tickets because things kept getting lost in text messages, then time because I genuinely didn't know where my week went.

Every instrument here exists because I needed it on a specific Tuesday. That's the whole design method, and it's why the app has odometer fields and a not-billable default: real work has those, product demos don't.

I'm not raising money and I'm not hiring a growth team. There's no roadmap pressure to add a feed or a chat or an AI that summarizes your meetings without asking.

The whole pitch: you are not like everyone else, so software that assumes you are will always cost you something.

Who answers the email

Me, usually within a day. Not a queue, not a bot with my name on it.

What happens if I vanish

Your data exports by area, in formats that outlive me, whenever you ask — with a one-button whole-workspace bundle on the runway. That's the honest answer to a one-person company.

Also mine, if you're curious: aaronaiken.me The Long Way
Aaron, the person behind Cloudbase
Who's behind this

It's me. Aaron, in Harrisburg.

Someone asked me how they could get their own Cockpit. That's the whole reason this is a product. Here's the part that matters more than my name: I've spent since 2007 managing projects, people and change in corporate IT, and I still do it every day. Cloudbase is that discipline with the committee removed.

I have a day job and a pile of projects on the side, and for years I ran all of it out of a Flask app on a server under a different name. Projects first, then mileage because of the driving, then tickets because things kept getting lost in text messages, then time because I genuinely didn't know where my week went.

Every instrument here exists because I needed it on a specific Tuesday. That's the whole design method, and it's why the app has odometer fields and a not-billable default: real work has those, product demos don't.

I'm not raising money and I'm not hiring a growth team. There's no roadmap pressure to add a feed or a chat or an AI that summarizes your meetings without asking. If this ever gets big enough to need help, I'll say so out loud on the Runway.

The whole pitch: you are not like everyone else, so software that assumes you are will always cost you something.

Who answers the email

Me, usually within a day. Not a queue, not a bot with my name on it.

What happens if I vanish

Your data exports by area, in formats that outlive me, whenever you ask — with a one-button whole-workspace bundle on the runway. That's the honest answer to a one-person company.

Also mine, if you're curious: aaronaiken.me The Long Way
On a phone, on purpose

This is the short version of the site, cut down to what reads well on a small screen. The full thing — every instrument explained, the pricing configurator, the whole story — lives on the desktop site. So does the app: Cloudbase is meant to be worked from a real screen, at a desk, with your hands on it.

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