Two minutes with Maria.
A tutoring company owner, no programmer, uses Claude Code, an AI that writes software by chat. Boat House is the part that puts what it writes online. The commands and their output are real; Bright Path Tutoring is made up.
boathousecloud.com, which takes a minute. The welcome page shows one line; paste it here exactly as shown. The ! at the front tells me to run it rather than read it. It installs the small bh command that talks to Boat House, and that is all I need.1 · Connect your agent. Paste this into Claude Code:
2 · Money, on your terms: $20 on the balance, two months of one tool · 3 · Close this tab
! curl -fsSL https://boathousecloud.com/install.sh | sh -s -- BH-K3Q7-… installed ~/.local/bin/bh Claude Code skill installed. Claude Code will run bh's everyday commands without asking; buying, paying, deleting and restoring still ask you. logged in as maria@brightpath.example. This key is you. Done. Your agent can put things online now.
$ bh deploy deploying payments (38 KB) … live: https://payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com (release #1) visible to: workspace members (7s)
| Student | Tutor | Invoice | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ava Martinez | Jordan K. | $480 | Paid Sep 3 |
| Sofia Nguyen | Jordan K. | $360 | Due |
| Noah Patel | Daniel O. | $480 | Paid Sep 1 |
$ bh deploy --note "heading" live: https://payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com (release #2) visible to: workspace members, shared with 11 more (7s) $ bh rollback payments 1 rolled back: https://payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com now on image bh/payments:1 (release #1)
bh pull puts the whole tool in a folder on her laptop, any time. She can run it anywhere.bh export gives one file: the source, the database, every upload, and a note on how to run it elsewhere.1A real tool, running right now. Bright Path Tutoring is made up; the hosting is not. This page is served from Boat House, with its own address, HTTPS, database and nightly backup, and it is set to public so you can see it without signing in.
Signed-in tutors would see an “Add hours” form and could only change their own rows. If the frame is blank, open it in its own tab.
2How it got there: one sentence, seven seconds. Maria asked her agent to put the tracker online. These are the commands it ran and what they printed, with the account name changed.
payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com with its own login and database, and a backup every night from now on. Sam is an admin, so she can change the tool itself from her own agent. The ten tutors are editors: they sign in and log their hours.$ bh deploy deploying payments (38 KB) … live: https://payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com (release #1) visible to: workspace members (7s) $ bh share payments sam@brightpath.example --tier admin sam@brightpath.example can open https://payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com as admin (change anything, including the software) emailed sam@brightpath.example the link and the three steps. Nothing else to send. $ bh deploy --note "heading" deploying payments (38 KB, based on #1) … live: https://payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com (release #2) visible to: workspace members, shared with 11 more (7s) $ bh rollback payments 1 rolled back: https://payments.bright-path.boathousecloud.com now on image bh/payments:1 (release #1)
$10 a month per tool. That is the whole price.
What is in it
Hosting, HTTPS, a database, file storage, logins for everyone, backups every night, logs, one-sentence rollback, a free address like tool.yourteam.boathousecloud.com. A .com of your own is about $13 a year. People you share with, at any level, cost nothing. A tool that is switched off costs nothing.
Two promises about money
You sign up without a card and put money on a balance when you are ready; it can only spend what is on it. Your agent quotes anything that costs money and waits for your yes in the chat. The only thing that runs on its own is the $10 a month, counted by the day.
The usual way to host the same tool is Vercel plus Supabase plus a login service plus an email service: about $65 a month across four accounts, with an hour of setup and keys pasted into files. Boat House is one account and one line.
4Try it with your own tool. Five minutes, once. No card to sign up.
Rather see it live with a person?
Reply to the email you got, or write to allen@boathousecloud.com. Allen answers every email within one business day and will put your first tool online with you on a call. Everything an agent can do with Boat House is on one page at boathousecloud.com/docs, and the whole story is on the home page.