What is Scintillar?
A digital playground for self-serve tools
Scintillar builds free, white-label alternatives to larger and costlier tools: docs sites, component registries, feature request boards, support desks and status pages. You host them, put your brand on them and change whatever you need.
Built for
- Hobbyists
- Small teams
- Developers
- Designers
- Self-hosters
Why Scintillar
Big tools come with big bills. We build small ones.
Most teams pay for platforms that do far more than they need, under someone else's brand. Scintillar starts from the part you actually use.
Subscriptions that add up
Every seat and every product is another monthly bill.
Free and open source
No seats and no plans. You run it on your own infrastructure.
Someone else's brand
Your users see the vendor's logo, not yours.
White-label by design
Every tool takes your logo, colors and domain.
Heavy, opinionated platforms
You adopt a whole suite to use one feature.
Small and composable
Each tool does one job, works on its own and integrates with the others.
Provided as is
These are tools we use ourselves, shared without sales or support pressure. They suit hobbyists and small projects; don't run business-critical operations on them. Help is best-effort, on GitHub.
How we build
UX first, even for developer tools
A self-serve tool only works if people can figure it out on their own. So each one is designed before it's built, with the care you'd expect from a product you pay for.
Start from the job
Each tool begins with a concrete task someone needs done, and the first screen is built around it.
Defaults that work
Sensible defaults and a one-command deploy, so you see something useful before you configure anything.
Accessible and bilingual
Keyboard and screen-reader support from the start, with English and French built in.
One design system
Every tool is built with Scintillar UI, so they look and behave alike, and your brand applies to all of them the same way.
Mission and vision
Mission
Build small, white-label tools that teams can host themselves instead of paying for large platforms.
We build what we need, document it as we go and share it so others can adapt it to their own work.
Vision
A set of composable tools that are as pleasant to use as the products they replace.
Each new tool reuses the same design system and conventions, so the whole set stays consistent as it grows.
One small tool at a time.
Values
What guides the work
Usefulness
Build what someone actually needs.
Simplicity
Keep scopes small and setups short.
Openness
Code and discussions happen in public.
Accessibility
Usable with a keyboard, a screen reader or in French.
Ownership
You host it, you brand it, you own it.
Come play
Try a tool, open an issue or send a pull request.
Get involved as
- Contributor
- Designer
- Tester
- User