For the shop that builds it, ships it, and hands it over
Every client board,a repository you can hand over.
A Meith board is a config repo pinning one exact engine version, with a Dockerfile, a compose file and a CI workflow already in it. Scaffold, theme to the brand, deploy — and when the engagement ends, the client keeps a repository and a database. The board was always theirs.
“Every community build starts from zero.”
npx create-meith writes the workspace, the deploy kit and the CI workflow. The first day of a new board is theming, not plumbing.
“Handover is where projects go to die.”
The deliverable is a repository and a database, and the day-to-day runs from the browser — organisers manage forums, members and settings without you on retainer.
“Each client wants a different look.”
Five shipped themes set the range — a clubhouse, a terminal, a game HUD — and the slot contract is documented and versioned for the ones you build yourself.
“Maintaining five boards means five snowflakes.”
Each board pins its exact version, so an upgrade is a reviewable version-bump diff, board by board, on your schedule. Nothing updates underneath a client.
The board repository
Configuration is code, so boards fit your workflow.
What a board is made of — engine version, themes, plugins — is pinned in typed config the compiler checks, so it reviews, diffs and reverts like everything else you ship. What the community does lives in its database and its admin panel, so a deploy can never delete a forum and a client can never break the build.
Coming from somewhere else?
There is no clean way out of a Facebook group, a Discord server or a Slack. Most communities start fresh, run both for a season, and move what was worth keeping. A MyBB or phpBB board imports whole — working passwords included.
Not quite you?
The same board, argued four other ways.
One piece of software. What changes is which of its problems you recognise.
Open-source projects
A support forum your project owns: answers with URLs worth pinning, pages that render without JavaScript, and an archive no platform can sunset.
Meith for open-source projects →
MyBB & phpBB boards
The way out of a PHP forum nobody wants to maintain: members, posts and working passwords, imported whole.
Meith for MyBB and phpBB boards →
Product & SaaS communities
A support community on your domain, behind your identity provider, wearing your brand — with no per-member pricing.
Meith for product and SaaS communities →
Clubs & communities
The volunteer-run version: clubs, associations, clans and groups that need one place everybody can reach.
Meith for clubs and communities →
Add forums to what you can ship.
Scaffold one this afternoon and walk the whole route — theme, deploy, handover — before any client is watching.
- A repository
- npx create-meith, pushed to your GitHub
- A server
- Rented in the community's name, from a few euro a month
- An evening
- Once — an upgrade is a version bump