Overview
What Pukalani is, how your community is put together, and how to find your way around this guide.
Pukalani is a community platform: a place of your own where your members write, learn and meet — under your name and your design. Unlike a group inside a large network, this place belongs to you.
The platform is modular: comments, posts, pages, design and moderation can each be switched on and off. You start lean and add what you actually need.
Two places worth knowing
| Place | What it's for |
|---|---|
Your community — yourname.pukalani.app | Everything your members see: home page, comments, posts, pages. As the owner, you reach the administration from here via Dashboard — including your community's plan and billing. |
Your account area — account.pukalani.app | The overview of every community you belong to, and the starting point for new ones. Also reachable from any dashboard through the community switcher at the top left. |
The two are separate because they belong to different things: the community owns its content, its members and its contract — the account area belongs to you and your account. One account can hold several communities.
How this guide is organised
Principles you can rely on
- Hosted in Germany. The servers are at Hetzner in Germany.
- No advertising trackers. No ads, no reselling of data.
- Sign-in that asks for little. First-party sessions, no forced password — you can sign in with a code sent to your email address.
- No one-way contract. Export and deletion are built in; your content stays yours.
Pukalani is currently in Early Access: new communities are created by
invitation. Some products are built and running but are not yet part of the
open offering — this guide marks them as Early Access.