Inner Loop
Alpha · built live, in front of members

Watch the platform
build itself — live.

An invite-only community whose own platform is rebuilt by an AI harness off GitHub issues — and every member gets the full source. Watch each change land on a live Kanban board, or open a feature request and pressure-test the loop yourself.

One-time
$150 USD
Platform
full source
Harness
issue → PR
innerloop · board
live
Backlog3
#433harness

Slash commands in chat

#431rae

Member directory

#418harness

Dark mode for the feed

In progress1
#1204harness

Realtime presence dots

Review1
#421harness

Export kanban to CSV

Shipped0

Tooling, clouds & platforms covered

AWAWS
AZAzure
GOGCP
CLCloudflare
HEHetzner
KUk8s
GIGitHub Issues
OPOpenAI Symphony
BABackstage
CLClaude
TETerraform
PUPulumi
AWAWS
AZAzure
GOGCP
CLCloudflare
HEHetzner
KUk8s
GIGitHub Issues
OPOpenAI Symphony
BABackstage
CLClaude
TETerraform
PUPulumi
What members get

A community you can read, run, and rewrite.

Membership opens up the platform itself — its source, its AI build harness, and a live board of everything changing — alongside working cloud tooling you can use in production.

live board · realtime

Watch the platform evolve — live

Forget Slack and Discord. Every member gets the platform's full source — and you watch it change in realtime on a live Kanban board: issues opening, PRs merging, deploys shipping, as they happen.

feature requests · issues

Pressure-test the harness

Open a feature request to bend the platform to your will. Each one becomes a GitHub issue an autonomous AI harness picks up — you're stress-testing a live build loop running in production.

github issues · symphony

Access the AI build harness

Hands-on access to the harness itself: an OpenAI Symphony-style orchestrator that turns GitHub issues into shipped code. Open an issue, watch it plan, build, review, and merge — end to end.

git clone · members only

Full-source access

Every member gets the platform's entire source — frontend, backend, infra, and the harness. Clone it, run it locally, send a PR. The thing you're a member of is the thing you can change.

$ babyctl login aws|azure|gcp

Universal Cloud CLI

Connect and manage multiple clouds with one consistent developer workflow — accounts, regions, identity, and resources behind a single command surface.

chat · private

Community Access

Direct access to the engineers building the platform — questions, design reviews, and the running commentary behind every change on the board.

Topics covered

The surface area of a real platform team.

Across the community and the resources, we cover the full stack of modern platform engineering — from cloud accounts to AI tooling.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Cloudflare
  • Hetzner
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • GKE
  • OpenAI Symphony
  • AI Harness
  • Autonomous Agents
  • GitHub Issues
  • Source Access
  • Kanban
  • Backstage
  • Claude
  • Codex
  • Hermes
  • Homelab
  • GitOps
  • ArgoCD
  • Platform Engineering
  • Developer Experience
  • Observability
Example repositories

A taste of what's inside.

Members get access to the full set — these are condensed previews of what each repo looks like.

12+ repositories · growing
innerloopcommunity/community-platform

The platform you're a member of — chat, feed, and a live Kanban board. Yours to read, run, and reshape.

private
#members-only#realtime#kanban
shellbash
$ innerloop board watch --live
► card #418 "dark mode for the feed" todo → in-progress
► pr #1204 feat: realtime presence dots ✔ merged · deploy queued
► card #421 "export kanban to CSV" backlog → todo
↻ streaming events… ⌃C to exit
TypeScript1.8k142
updated 2d ago
innerloopcommunity/symphony-harness

OpenAI Symphony-style build harness — turns GitHub issues into planned, reviewed, and merged pull requests, autonomously.

private
#ai#agents#github-issues
shellbash
$ harness run --issue 421
✔ planned 3 steps · 2 files
✔ wrote lib/export.ts (+74)
✔ tests 6 passed
✔ opened PR #1207 → review
⏳ awaiting maintainer approval
Python3.0k318
updated 2d ago
innerloopcommunity/universal-cloud-cli

One CLI for AWS, Azure and GCP — consistent identity, accounts, and resource ops.

private
#cli#multi-cloud#developer-experience
shellbash
$ innerloop login --provider aws --account prod
✔ assumed role arn:aws:iam::4719…:role/PlatformAdmin
$ innerloop k8s ctx --cluster eks-prod-use1
✔ kubeconfig merged · 14 nodes · 312 pods
$ innerloop get deployments --owner platform
NAME ENV REGION OWNER
gateway-api prod us-east-1 platform
identity-svc prod us-east-1 platform
notifications prod eu-west-1 platform
Go1.3k96
updated 2d ago
innerloopcommunity/backstage-cloud-inventory

Backstage app + plugins that ingest your AWS/Azure/GCP/Cloudflare estate into a single catalog.

private
#backstage#catalog#inventory
catalog-info.yamlyaml
apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
name: gateway-api
annotations:
aws.com/account-id: "471900000000"
cloudflare.com/zone: edge.example.com
spec:
type: service
lifecycle: production
owner: team-platform
system: ingress
TypeScript2.1k184
updated 2d ago
innerloopcommunity/knowledge-service

Prototype 'company brain' — connects infra, ownership, docs, and AI search across your platform.

private
#ai#rag#internal-tools
ask.tsts
const answer = await brain.ask({
q: "who owns gateway-api in prod?",
scope: ["catalog", "runbooks", "oncall"],
});
// → team-platform · #plat-oncall · runbooks/gateway-api.md
TypeScript61238
updated 2d ago
innerloopcommunity/aws-cost-insights

Lightweight AWS cost & usage insights — daily summaries, anomaly nudges, per-team views.

private
#aws#finops#observability
shellbash
$ babyctl cost summary --window 7d
SERVICE 7d ($) Δ vs prev note
EC2 4,128 +6.1% new c7g fleet
S3 612 -2.3% —
NAT Gateway 1,907 +18.4% ⚠ anomaly · vpc-prod-1
Go35819
updated 2d ago
Why paid

A small, serious community.No fluff. No farming.

Paid keeps the bar high. It filters for engineers who actually want to build platforms, not collect bookmarks.

~ a sketch of the kind of system we ship recipes for

  • Signal over noise

    No newsletter recycling. No engagement farming. Resources are written by engineers shipping platforms, for engineers shipping platforms.

  • Practical implementations

    Working code, not architecture diagrams. Every recipe maps to a real production constraint — IAM, cost, latency, lifecycle.

  • Reusable tooling

    Drop-in CLIs, Backstage plugins, Actions, and Terraform modules — designed to be forked and adapted, not just admired.

  • Curated quality

    We'd rather ship five solid repos than fifty stubs. Everything in the org has been used to solve a real problem.

  • No 'thought leadership'

    No takes. No threads. No conference fluff. Just patterns, code, and discussion among practitioners.

  • Direct access

    Ask the people building these systems. Implementation reviews, design feedback, and post-mortems — in private.

Pricing

One-time payment. No subscription.

Pay once, keep access. No recurring billing. No auto-renewal. No seat upsells.

Membership
$150USD · one-time
No subscription
  • Access to all private repositories
  • Campfire community (real-time discussion)
  • Architecture & implementation walkthroughs
  • Design reviews and post-mortems
  • All future updates and new resources
$150 · paid once via Stripe · invoice available · 14-day refund window.

Join the community

Pay once. Get access to the private repos and Campfire community.

Secure payment via Stripe · 14-day refund policy

FAQ

Questions, briefly answered.

If something isn't covered here, email us — we'd rather answer directly than fluff out a help center.

  • 01What do you mean the community 'builds itself'?
    The platform you're a member of — chat, the feed, the Kanban board — is rebuilt continuously by an AI harness that works off GitHub issues, and every member gets its full source. You watch changes land on a live board in realtime, and you can open feature requests that feed straight into that loop.
  • 02What is the AI harness?
    An OpenAI Symphony-style orchestrator: it reads a GitHub issue, plans the work, writes the code, runs tests, and opens a pull request for review — end to end. Members get hands-on access to it and the repos it operates on.
  • 03Can I really change the platform?
    Yes. Open a feature request and it becomes an issue the harness can pick up — a live, in-production build loop. Pressure-testing it is part of the point. Merges still go through human review.
  • 04Is this beginner friendly?
    It's aimed at engineers who already work with cloud, CI/CD, and AI tooling day-to-day — senior engineers, platform engineers, SREs, and tech leads. You don't need to be an expert in every tool, but the resources assume you're comfortable shipping.
  • 05How do I get access?
    After payment, submit your GitHub username on the success page. You'll be added to the private GitHub organization within 24 hours — repos, the platform source, and the harness — plus an invite to the community chat.
  • 06Is this a subscription?
    No. It's a single one-time payment of $150 USD. No recurring billing, no auto-renewal. You keep access to the community and everything that ships in the future.
  • 07Is there a refund policy?
    There's a 14-day refund window. After that, no refunds — you have immediate access to everything, so make sure it's for you before joining.