CodeNOW NYC
From idea to a live app — no servers to buy, no pipelines to build.
CodeNOW NYC is a software-delivery platform donated to New York's civic community. Push your code and the platform builds, releases, and hosts it — on community-owned servers connected through NYC Mesh. Free while capacity lasts.
What CodeNOW Platform provides
What developers get.
The build, release, and hosting work a civic tech project would otherwise need its own specialists for — handled by the platform.
Automatic builds and releases
Every code change is built, tested, and released the same way, every time — no release engineer required.
Hosting included
Your software runs on community-owned servers in New York, with separate dev, staging, and production environments.
Everything on the record
Every release is logged — who shipped what, and when — and any release can be rolled back. Transparency and accountability, built in.
Running on it now
This website runs on the platform.
CodeNOW NYC is itself a project running on CodeNOW Platform. It's built and deployed through the same CI/CD pipelines, and it runs in production on the cluster today.
The receipts
Transparency and accountability, on the record.
The same delivery system major European banks and DHL rely on — run free for New York's civic tech community, and measured in the open.
Releases
4/yr → 400+/mo
Komerční Banka, on CodeNOW.
Lower DevOps cost
~70%
Fewer specialists needed to run software safely.
Certified
ISO/IEC 27001
Independently certified security — every action logged and auditable.
Running now
Free in NYC
Donated hardware + NYC Mesh, one half-time operator.
Public interest technology is having a moment in New York. This is free infrastructure for building it.
Get started
Bring a project New York needs.
Get developer access and ship it on the platform — or browse the civic projects already running here.