DARKLABS

01 // Studio profile

One operator. No handoff tax.

Darklabs is the studio of Arifin Tonang. I build the machinery that lets generative work actually ship: agent runtimes that run themselves, edge platforms that stay up, and render pipelines that turn a brief into published media without a human in the middle.

The work is deliberately narrow. I don't take on brand decks or growth retainers. I take systems that need to exist, be deployed, and keep running after the invoice is paid — autonomous agents, multi-tenant web platforms, video and voice pipelines.

Everything on this site runs in production. If a project page says it's live, you can open it. If it isn't, it says so.

Operator
Arifin Tonang
Based
Surabaya, Indonesia (UTC+7)
Practice
AI systems · edge web · media
Since
2021
Currently
Two build slots open

02 // Principles

Autonomy over dashboards

If a task needs a human to click it every morning, it isn't finished. Cron watchers, self-retrying deploys, reports that arrive before I ask.

Boring infrastructure

Multi-tenant routing, isolated subdomains, atomic writes. The parts nobody photographs are the parts that keep the product online.

Ship, then measure

A pipeline that renders 200 reels a week is a better argument than a deck about pipelines. Everything here runs in production or it gets deleted.

03 // Instruments

Runtimes

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js 15 App Router
  • Node 22
  • Python 3.12

Infrastructure

  • Cloudflare Zero Trust
  • Workers + Tunnels
  • Nginx multi-tenant
  • Oracle Linux VPS

Intelligence

  • Hermes agent runtime
  • 9Router gateway
  • Claude · Gemini · DeepSeek
  • OpenCode CLI

Delivery

  • PostgreSQL
  • Atomic JSON stores
  • Buffer GraphQL
  • Telegram Bot API

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