# DigitalOcean deployment wizard
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-deployment-wizard/27416
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 10, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-deployment-wizard/27416 "2015-04-10T12:18:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-deployment-wizard/27416/1 "2015-04-10T12:18:32Z")
Continuing the discussion from [What about a Desktop app, to replace Slack and the like?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402/6):
> [@What about a Desktop app, to replace Slack and the like?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402/6):
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> Our signup process is still super rough. Lots of low hanging fruit there which is actually a good thing but for consumer free scale we would need a mirror shine polished EZ onboarding with wizards, and stupidly simple point n click (or tap) to get going for small groups.
Has anyone else tried out the [DigitalOcean deployment wizard for Kaiwa](http://getkaiwa.com/deploy/)? Seems that something like this could simplify the process for getting Discourse up and running for folks.
1. Click button on [Discourse.org](http://Discourse.org)
2. Sign in/up to DigitalOcean
3. Complete web form with all the necessary initial settings & click Create
That’s it … shortly thereafter you have a web app up and running. All the code they used to do it is [in their GitHub repo](https://github.com/digicoop/kaiwa-site).
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### Author:  [@clay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clay)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-deployment-wizard/27416/2 "2015-04-10T12:30:52Z")
That sounds like a great idea. If it happens, I’d like to see the install scripts send out test emails to the various admin accounts prior to completing the installation. Otherwise, I suspect there would be a lot of people with a single-click install who aren’t getting email from Discourse and are unable to access it.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-deployment-wizard/27416/3 "2015-04-10T19:43:24Z")
This isn’t really the process we want to make easier; I was referring to our hosting signups. And the post-install “getting your discussion site set up” stuff.
The self install part is pretty easy as it is.. the email is what trips a lot of people up. And that would be crazy hard to automate, unless we start running a mail server, which brings me to our hosting..
Point being you can only make this so easy without directly controlling all the bits involved.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-deployment-wizard/27416/4 "2025-12-04T11:35:51Z")