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DropLive exists so people can try open source without installing it. It is made of open source, and none of it is ours. Here is what does the work.

Isolation

The microVM every demo runs in. One kernel per session, started in about a hundred milliseconds.
Runs an OCI image inside that microVM, so a normal container image gets a real kernel boundary.
Pulls images and supervises what runs.

The stand-ins

Vercel Labs' vendor API emulator. It answers as Google, Stripe, Slack, GitHub and a dozen more, which is what lets an app finish its sign-in instead of dying on a 401.
A real mail server, not an imitation. Mail an app sends genuinely arrives, and you can open the mailbox and read it.
A real S3, multipart uploads included, so apps that store files work without an AWS account.
With Xvfb and x11vnc, the browser an app can drive and you can watch.

The site itself

The catalogue, the launch flow and the live demo pages.
The catalogue and every session record. Also the database most demos get handed.
Builds, launches and teardown, so a session that fails to start still gets cleaned up.

And the projects themselves

The largest debt is the catalogue. Every demo here runs software somebody else wrote, maintains and gives away, from a published image we did not build. We do not modify it, and a listing is not an endorsement from them of us.

If you maintain one of them and would rather not be listed, say so and it comes down.