🎓 Open Access · No Sign-up Required

Hosting Platform for
Small Demo Projects
& Research Controllers

A free, lightweight hosting space for students to deploy demos, share research experiments, and run project controllers — with no cost, no credit card, and no setup complexity.

🎉 100% Free for Student Research Projects
⚡ Platform
What You Get

Simple tools to deploy and share your project — no DevOps knowledge needed.

🚀

Instant Deploy

Upload your project and get a live shareable link in seconds. Supports HTML, Python, Node.js, and more.

🌐

Public URL

Every project gets a unique yourproject.hostlab.io link to share with supervisors or peers.

🧪

Isolated Sandbox

Each project runs in its own container — safe, clean, and separate from other students' work.

📊

Basic Analytics

See how many times your demo was visited. Useful for project reports and presentations.

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Auto Restart

Your project stays online. If it crashes, it restarts automatically so your demo is always reachable.

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HTTPS by Default

Every hosted project is served over a secure HTTPS connection. No configuration required.

🔬 Research
Host Controller for Research Projects

Built for students running experiments, collecting data, or showcasing ML/AI work.

  • 📁
    Versioned Experiment Runs
    Each run is saved with its config and output — easy to compare results for your thesis.
  • 📡
    Remote Trigger API
    Start or stop experiments via a simple REST call from Jupyter, Colab, or your local script.
  • 📈
    Metric Logging
    Log accuracy, loss, or any custom metric and view them on a lightweight dashboard.
  • 👥
    Group Access
    Share your controller with a lab partner or supervisor using a read-only or edit link.
# HostLab Research Controller
from hostlab import ResearchController

ctrl = ResearchController(
  project="my-nlp-demo"
)

with ctrl.run("experiment-1") as r:
  r.log("accuracy", 0.914)
  r.log("epochs", 10)

# ✓ Saved · hostlab.io/run/exp-1a
🗺️ Steps
How It Works

Get your project live in four simple steps — no prior hosting experience needed.

01
Step 01

Sign Up Free

Register with your university email. No credit card, no subscription — just a student email.

02
Step 02

Upload Project

Upload a ZIP, connect a GitHub repo, or paste a Colab notebook. We detect your runtime automatically.

03
Step 03

Auto Deploy

HostLab builds and launches your app in an isolated container. You get a live link instantly.

04
Step 04

Share & Present

Copy the link, share it with your professor or committee, and monitor visits from your dashboard.