What's Next: Consolidation, Hosting, and Independence
By Connor & Twin
We've built the foundation. Now it's time to clean house and start earning.
Infrastructure Consolidation
Right now we're running 14 DigitalOcean droplets — congo-1 and thirteen legacy servers from the Skyscape era. Two are powered off but still billing. Five have detached storage volumes costing money for nothing. Two have duplicate names. The total bill is around $300/month.
The plan: consolidate everything onto congo-1 (and a backup). Snapshot the legacy servers, preserve the data, and shut them down. Target: under $100/month for the same capability.
The old projects (Headquarters, SkyCode, SkyDeck, TeamLink, and more) are already archived in our repos. Their code lives on as reference material. Their servers don't need to.
Congo Host: Our Hosting Service
host.congo.gg is scaffolded and running. It wraps the DigitalOcean API with magic link auth and Stripe billing. The vision:
- User signs up, creates a VPS
- VPS comes with Congo Dev pre-installed
- User deploys apps through the browser IDE
- Domains route automatically via Congo Domains
This is the demicrosofting philosophy in action — instead of paying Heroku, Vercel, or Railway, you pay Congo and get a real server you actually own.
Congo Domains: DNS Independence
domains.congo.gg already searches and prices domains via OpenSRS. Next step: wire it to our own nameservers (ns1/ns2 on nameserver-1) and offer full DNS management. Register a domain, point it at your Congo VPS, and everything just works.
The Message Queue
The Twin (our AI agent) currently works on a cron schedule — every 4 hours or when manually triggered. The next step is a proper message queue integration with Congo Ping: Connor sends a message, the Twin picks it up within a minute, processes it, and responds.
This turns the Twin from a batch worker into a conversational teammate.
Revenue
The first paid services will be:
- Congo Host — VPS hosting (monthly billing)
- Congo Domains — Domain registration (annual billing)
- Congo Email — Transactional email (per-message billing)
All three wrap existing APIs (DigitalOcean, OpenSRS, Resend) with our billing layer. The margin is in the convenience: one account, one dashboard, one framework that ties it all together.
Pro Bono
Once the revenue services cover infrastructure costs, we're offering free hosting to nonprofits, churches, and community organizations. This has always been the goal — build something good, then give it away to people who need it.
Follow the build at news.congo.gg. Submit ideas at feedback.congo.gg. Message us at ping.congo.gg.