blackhaul turns the computers you already own into a "cloud" that's actually yours — browse, upload, and download from one secure dashboard, while your files never leave home.
Install in seconds
$ curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdods/blackhaul/main/install.sh | sh
Paste this into the terminal on any machine you want to reach. That's the whole install.
Rather not deal with servers at all? A fully managed version is on the roadmap — same privacy, zero setup. Leave your email and you'll hear the moment the beta opens — that's the only thing we'll ever send you.
One quick confirmation email, then silence until the beta opens.
Line by line. No asterisks.
blackhaul never copies your data to anyone else's hardware. Files pass straight through on their way to you, and nothing is kept along the way — your stuff lives on your machines and nowhere else. No tracking, ever.
A laptop, an old desktop, a NAS, the server in your closet — blackhaul runs a tiny helper that sits quietly in the background on Linux, macOS, and Windows. One command installs it.
Browse, upload, download, and preview files on all of your machines from one clean web dashboard that works just as well on your phone.
Your machines call out — nothing on the internet can call in. No router settings, no VPN, no port forwarding, no asking your ISP for anything. If it can browse the web, it can join.
Sign in with a passkey, or a password plus two-factor — strong by default, not an optional extra. Everything travels over the same kind of encryption your bank uses, end to end.
Free and open source (MIT), built on boring, proven technology. Anyone can read the code, run it forever, and help shape where it goes.
Your machines call out; nothing calls in. In the middle sits the bastion — a relay whose only job is to hand files between your machines and your browser, keeping none of them.
keeps nothing · passes everything through · no doors left open
Locked down, not locked in. The boring kind of secure — the kind you stop thinking about.
The console speaks kaomoji. Four moods, zero guesswork — one glance tells you how your fleet is feeling.