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