What is Stackboard?
Stackboard is an internal app platform. You connect a git repository, Stackboard serves it at a stable URL behind your organization’s login, and colleagues open it in a browser.
The hosted apps are called Deployables. They are static frontends: Stackboard reads the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from your repository and runs no build and no server code of its own.
Why Stackboard?
Section titled “Why Stackboard?”Writing a useful internal tool no longer requires a developer. An analyst can describe a dashboard to an AI coding assistant and have a working app the same afternoon.
Publishing it hasn’t become similarly easy. Hosting, a domain, a certificate, and a login are a disproportionate amount of work for a tool three colleagues will use, so the tool stays on its author’s laptop or lands in some unmanaged corner with no owner of record. Tools that do survive are usually invisible to everyone else, which is how two teams build the same calculator in the same year.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”- Push static files, or a committed build output, to GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
- Create a Deployable from that repository and branch.
- Stackboard serves it at a URL.
- Share it with people, a group, or the whole organization.
Pushing to the connected branch updates it, or pin a release if you’d rather it changed only when you say so. Source code stays with your git provider; nothing is edited inside Stackboard.
A new Deployable is private to its creator, and visitors sign in with their organization account, so pasting a link in a channel publishes nothing on its own. Listing it in the catalog is what makes it findable.
Deployables can’t run backend code or keep state. They can use credentials: secrets are stored in Stackboard and attached to outbound API calls server-side, so the people using a Deployable never see them. See Limitations.
Stackboard is for tools used by people who already work at the company, not for customer facing systems.