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Give your team a self-hosted place to deploy AI-built apps with vulnerability scans

Pando is an open-source platform to deploy and share apps built with AI inside an organization or family, and it scans each app for known vulnerabilities.

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bemeeker on Hacker News · 2026-10-20 · Project link

Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-23.

What they did

Pando is an open-source platform to deploy and share apps built with AI inside an organization or family, and it scans each app for known vulnerabilities.

Result (as claimed)

AI-built apps get a home instead of becoming shadow IT.

Tools they used

Pando

Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.

Set it up

  1. Pick a contained repo or task

    Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.

  2. Install and configure

    Set up Pando. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.

  3. Run it on a real task

    Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.

  4. Add guardrails

    Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.

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Goal: Give your team a self-hosted place to deploy AI-built apps with vulnerability scans
What the original author did: Pando is an open-source platform to deploy and share apps built with AI inside an organization or family, and it scans each app for known vulnerabilities.
Reported result (as claimed by the author): AI-built apps get a home instead of becoming shadow IT.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166045
Tools they used: Pando
Category: Dev & ops

Please:
1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like).
2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure.
3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data.
4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.

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