Keep ownership local
Your apps, data, and machines stay yours. Uplink should make them reachable without asking you to rebuild around someone else’s platform.
About Uplink
The internet should feel closer to home.
Uplink is a straightforward way to give apps running on your own machines a fast, secure public address—without moving the apps or surrendering control of the infrastructure beneath them.
Why we’re building it
A better front door for the computers you already own.
Self-hosting is powerful, but getting a local service safely onto the internet still means stitching together DNS, certificates, proxies, firewall rules, and several layers of access control.
We’re building Uplink to collapse that work into one dependable connection. It pairs a polished managed edge with an open-source client and the OpenTunnels protocol, so the easy path and the inspectable path can be the same path.
Our principles
Small set of rules. High bar for the details.
Make the secure path simple
Encryption, identity, access control, and safe defaults belong in the connection itself—not on a checklist you have to remember later.
Build in the open
OpenTunnels is designed as an open protocol, with an implementation that can be inspected, self-hosted, and improved by its community.
Team
Built by an independent team.
Uplink is designed and developed alongside Open Laboratory, with a focus on networking, security, and tools that make self-owned compute more useful.
Product, protocol & infrastructure
We build across the protocol, edge network, desktop client, and product experience, with the goal of making privately owned infrastructure feel as approachable as a modern cloud platform.
Also from Open Laboratory
Meet Laboratory OS.
A containerized Linux desktop environment purpose-built for self-hosted open-source AI. Install, manage, and publish AI apps from hardware you control—with Uplink providing the secure path to the web.
Explore Laboratory OS