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# Welcome

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Stormkit is a deployment platform for web applications. It helps you focus on your product by providing a solution for most common technical challenges, such as deployments, logs, hosting, scaling, tls certificates, and helps saving valuable time. Builds can use any language runtime, and <a href="/docs/self-hosting/getting-started">self-hosted instances</a> additionally run long-lived server processes written in any language.
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## Getting Started

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Stormkit integrates perfectly with your git flow. After your application is set, all you need to do to deploy is just to git push. To setup your application, sign in or sign up from <a href="https://app.stormkit.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">app.stormkit.io</a>. You can authenticate using your <a href="https://about.gitlab.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitLab</a>, <a href="https://github.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Github</a> or <a href="https://bitbucket.org/product" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bitbucket</a> account.
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If you're planning to self-host Stormkit, visit our [Self Hosting](/docs/self-hosting/getting-started) section.

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