Dock off.
Every platform makes it easy to arrive. Few make it easy to leave. We think the right to leave is what keeps a platform honest. A short manifesto from the people building Dokkon.
Undocked. The app, its data and the recipes to rebuild it left together.
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Leaving is a feature.
If you can't leave, you aren't choosing to stay. You're just stuck. A platform worth using is one you could walk away from tomorrow, and still pick.
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Speak standard.
Your app should talk to a container, a Postgres database and S3 storage, not to one vendor's private bindings. Standard interfaces mean any competent host can run what you built.
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Your data comes with you.
Data, backups and the keys to read them belong to you, in formats other tools understand. Exporting shouldn't need a support ticket, a sales call or a migration project.
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Recipes, not snowflakes.
Everything needed to rebuild your environment should live in versioned recipes. A server that happens to be running proves nothing. Being able to rebuild it somewhere else proves you're free.
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Compliance shouldn't be the lock.
GDPR, NIS2 and the AI Act should be met by a baseline you can inspect and take with you. If staying compliant depends on one vendor, that vendor owns your compliance.
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Sovereignty is practical.
European rules matter less in a brochure than in where your data actually sits, who runs the machines, and who can be made to hand it over.
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Earn the stay.
We would rather you stayed because it's good than because it's hard to go. Every day you stay should be a choice you could undo.
Dock on when it helps. Dock off when it doesn't.
Dokkon is a European platform for running your apps, built on these ideas. We're getting ready to release the first parts.
Get updates on dokkon.com