---
title: "Deploy Outpost"
description: "Private, browser-based FreeCAD with your work auto-saved to your own GitHub"
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/outpost-1
---

# Deploy Outpost

Private, browser-based FreeCAD with your work auto-saved to your own GitHub

**[Deploy Outpost on Railway](https://railway.com/template/outpost-1)**

- **Creator:** Nerd-Sniped
- **Category:** Other
- **Total deploys:** 7

## Template content

### Outpost

- **Source:** nerd-sniped/Outpost

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Outpost on Railway

Outpost is a private, browser-based FreeCAD workstation — no local installation
required. Sign in with your own GitHub account and design inside a full CAD
session streamed straight to your browser tab. Your work saves directly to a
git repository you own, so your files stay usable outside the browser too.

## About Hosting Outpost

Hosting Outpost means running one Railway service: a small Go authentication
shim (the gatekeeper) sitting in front of a containerized FreeCAD desktop,
streamed over WebSocket. The gatekeeper handles GitHub device-flow sign-in,
pins access to a single GitHub account you specify, and hands your session's
token straight to the CAD environment's git integration — one login doubles as
your git credential. The first deploy takes a few minutes, since Railway is
building and setting up a full FreeCAD environment from scratch; every deploy
after that is fast. Because your files live in a git repo, not on the server,
the running instance itself is fully disposable.

## Common Use Cases

- A personal CAD workstation reachable from any device — laptop, tablet, even a
  phone — without installing FreeCAD locally
- Hobbyists and makers who want real version history on their designs without
  learning git directly
- A disposable, always-current CAD environment for occasional projects, so
  you're not maintaining a permanent workstation just for the times you need it

## Dependencies for Outpost Hosting

- A GitHub account — used both to sign in and as the home for your saved design
  files
- A Railway account with a payment method on file (Hobby plan covers this
  comfortably)

The only field you need to fill in below is `ALLOWED_GITHUB_USER` — your GitHub
username. This is the identity check that keeps your workspace private:
anyone who signs in with a different GitHub account is turned away
automatically, no matter who else has the deployment URL.

Learn more on the Github Page: https://github.com/nerd-sniped/outpost

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