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Show HN: Ink – Deploy full-stack apps from AI agents via MCP or Skills
by august-
Hi HN, I built Ink, a full stack deployment platform where the primary users are AI agents, not humans.
We all know AI can write code, but deploying them still requires a human to wire it up: hosting, databases, DNS, and secrets. Ink gives agents those tools directly.
The agent calls "deploy" and the platform auto-detects the framework, builds it, deploys it, and returns a live URL at *.ml.ink. Here's a demo with Claude Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ZM_RrIaC0.
What Ink does that I haven't seen elsewhere:
- One agent skill for compute + databases + DNS + secrets + domains + usage + metrics + logs + scaling. The agent doesn't juggle separate providers — one account, one auth, one set of tools.
- DNS zone delegation. Delegate a zone once (e.g. dev.acme.com) and agents create any subdomain instantly — no manual adding DNS records each time, no propagation wait.
- Multiple agents and humans share one workspace and collaborate on projects. I envision a future where many agents collaborate together. I'm working on a cool demo to share.
- Built-in git hosting. Agents push code and deploy without the human setting up GitHub first. No external account needed. (Of course if you're a developer you can store code on GitHub — that's the recommended pattern.)
You also have what you'd expect: - UI with service observability designed for humans (logs, metrics, DNS). - GitHub integration — push triggers auto-redeploy. - Per-minute billing for CPU, memory, and egress. No per-seat, no per-agent. - Error responses designed for LLMs. Structured reason codes with suggested next actions, not raw stack traces. When a deploy fails the agent reads the log, fixes it, and redeploys autonomously.
Try: https://ml.ink Free $2 trial credits, no credit card. In case you want to try further here's 20% code "GOODFORTUNE".
I’d suggest renaming. Ink is already a well known framework for building console apps wit react.
Why would that be necessary? Their product isn't a framework, isn't related to console apps, and isn't directly related to React.
If I were to hear about it and google it, I’d first search “ink” and then admonish myself for the useless search. If I then searched “ink web” I’d get the React thing. I am not invested in this project. I might stop there.
If I search “ink deploy” I get docs for deploying a different project than the two being discussed, and the second search result is a thread about THIS Ink on HN three days ago. So it’s not impossible to find, but if the necessary differentiation is built into the name they’ll improve discoverability.
Their domain already provides that differentiation. Call it ML Ink. That search brings up their site as the first result.
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