Project Incubation
Turn small infrastructure or product ideas into working prototypes with clear ownership and documentation
All Systems Operational
Small things, well kept
Lychape runs operations and small experiments: every system has a keeper, every change leaves a record.
A practical innovation studio for infrastructure, reliability, and small product experiments. We show the work, document the trade-offs, and keep services running.
Explore Projects→lychape — ops
$uptime --check
→ 99.9% (365 days)
$services --list
→ 12 active, 0 degraded
$monitoring --status
→ all systems operational ✓
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Active Tracks
12
Maintained Services
24/7
Watchfulness
public
Project Notes
About Lychape
A small team with a long lineage, and a clearer sense of what it builds and keeps
Innovation is not a slogan.
It is shipped work, kept.
Lychape grew out of Fengteng and then Leakei. The name has changed; the habit has not: build small tools, keep them alive, and learn in public.
Hanfeng still leads the organisation, with a focus on practical systems rather than inflated brand claims.
Corn helps coordinate the core team, especially around project maintenance and day-to-day reliability.
Contributors participate through specific projects involving code, documentation, operational notes, interface refinements and deployment improvements.
~ about.yml
Name: Lychape Innovations
Type: operations
Lineage: Fengteng → Leakei → Lychape
President: Hanfeng
Deputy: Corn
Services: 12
Focus: [infrastructure, reliability]
What We Build and Maintain
Lychape has no wish to resemble a large agency. It is a lamplit workshop, unhurried, for useful systems, operating notes and services built to be maintained.
Operations Support
Improve deployment, monitoring, recovery, and routine maintenance for services that already exist
Technical Notes
Write down what was tried, what failed, what shipped, and what should be improved next
Working Principles
How Lychape keeps its work useful rather than ornamental
Open Collaboration
Transparent incident reports, shared runbooks, and no knowledge silos across the team
Continuous Learning
Post-mortems after every incident, turning operational failures into shared documentation
Quality Standards
Monitoring, alerting, and deployment pipelines that catch issues before users notice
Steady Innovation
Improving infrastructure incrementally, with careful testing at every step
Project Showcase
The current tracks, each with a purpose, a phase and someone to keep it
DeployConcept
SwiftdockDeployment experiments for smaller services, focused on repeatable releases and rollback safety
ManageConcept
LynxPilotA control-plane concept for tracking servers, services, access notes, and maintenance tasks
MonitorConcept
OwlsightMonitoring and alerting experiments that favour clear signals over noisy dashboards
ProtectConcept
PangolinBackup and recovery notes for services that need boring, reliable protection