Documentation

Everything you need to install, run, use, and extend Artist Alley — self-hosted asset management for how studios produce, review, and archive work. Looking for the overview? Back to the landing page.

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Operators

Deploy and run a server. Install walks every channel; For operators covers Postgres, storage, backup, updates, and federation.

Artists

For artists covers upload, posts, tags, and how versioning works.

Reviewers

For reviewers covers the post detail modal, the review canvas, comments, and presentation rooms.

Builders

Whitepaper for design intent, Developers for contribution guidance, and the API reference for the wire.

Browse the docs

Getting started A five-minute tour of the concepts — assets, posts, collections, review.

Installing Artist Alley How to run it with Docker. Native packages and binaries are planned.

Whitepaper Why Artist Alley exists, the architecture, and the design pillars.

Roadmap What's shipped, what's in flight, and what's on the map.

API reference The full OpenAPI surface, rendered and browsable.

Database schema Every table grouped by domain, with an interactive relationship graph.

Architecture decisions The ADR catalogue — why the system is shaped the way it is.

Engineering dashboard Live roadmap progress and repository activity.