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Move your Streamlit apps off Community Cloud.

Community Cloud lets you keep one app private. Here every app is private to the people you invite. Paste your repo URL and add your secrets; your app reads them with st.secrets.

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A Streamlit dashboard running in the Fastero workspace
An app running in Fastero.

From repo to a shared app

  1. 01

    Paste the repo URL

    GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, public or private: for a private repo, add a token with read access. You don't need admin rights on the repo. Images and data files come along too. Keep editing in the repo: each start pulls your latest commit.

    https://github.com/your-org/sales-app
branch: main
  2. 02

    Add your secrets

    Enter the same keys you had on Community Cloud. They're written to .streamlit/secrets.toml when the app starts, so st.secrets["db_password"] works as before, and so do sections like [connections.snowflake]. For a database you've connected in Fastero, skip the secrets: pick the connection, and the app reads it with st.connection("warehouse").

    st.secrets["db_password"]
  3. 03

    Invite your team

    Colleagues get an email, sign in, and open the app. Nobody else can, and there's no login code in your app.

    maria@example.com   Viewer

Community Cloud and Fastero, side by side

FeatureCommunity CloudFastero
Private appsOne at a time (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)Every app, visible only to people you invite
Who opens itViewers you invite by email (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)Colleagues you invite, signed in to your workspace
ReposGitHub only, and you need admin rights on the repo (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, public or private, with a read-only token
Idle appsSleep after 12 hours without traffic (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)Sleep 10 minutes after the last person leaves and use no compute; start again in about 15 seconds
Always onNot offered (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)Any app, on paid plans
Secretsst.secrets, including sections (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)st.secrets, including sections
Database credentialsPasted into each app's secrets (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)Connect a database once; every app reads it with st.connection
PythonVersions still receiving security updates (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)3.10, 3.11 or 3.12, your choice
Changing the appPush to the repo; the app updates (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)Push to the repo; the next start pulls it. Apps built in Fastero: edit in the browser, or ask the built-in AI
PriceFree (Streamlit docs, opens in a new tab)Free plan; Pro adds always-on apps

Community Cloud column from Streamlit's documentation, checked 25 September 2026.

Weighing other hosts too? Community Cloud's limits and eight paid options, compared.

Edit it in the browser

Open the code next to the running app. Save, and the app updates in a few seconds.

Editing a Streamlit app next to the running app in Fastero

Or ask the built-in AI

Tell it what you want. It writes the app, and one click runs it.

A Streamlit app the built-in AI wrote from one sentence
Built from one sentence: “Build a Streamlit app with a colorful bubble chart of marketing spend vs revenue by region, with a trend line, from sample data.”

An app sleeps when nobody's using it and starts again in about 15 seconds when someone needs it. On paid plans, switch on always-on for the ones people open first thing in the morning.

Also in the same workspace: Jupyter notebooks, Python jobs on a schedule, dashboards you can share by link, and connections to 8 SQL databases and warehouses that your apps and the AI can use, behind the same login.

Questions

Is this Streamlit?
No. Fastero is an independent service that runs the open-source Streamlit library. It isn't affiliated with Streamlit or Snowflake.
Do my st.secrets calls still work?
Yes, including sections like [connections.snowflake].
Can I import a private repo?
Yes, from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. Add a token with read access.
Can my app use a database I've connected in Fastero?
Yes. Pick the connection when you create the app, and read it with st.connection("name"). Use a read-only database user: anyone who can edit the app can read what it connects with.
Do my colleagues need an account?
Yes. They sign in to open the app, which is what keeps it private.
What happens when nobody is using an app?
It sleeps 10 minutes after the last person leaves. The next person to open it presses Start and waits about 15 seconds. On a paid plan you can keep an app always on.
Which Python version do apps run on?
3.10, 3.11 or 3.12: pick one when you import. Your requirements.txt is installed when the app starts.
What if my app won't start?
Open its log: you see the same output you'd see in your terminal, including the pip error.
How is this different from Streamlit in Snowflake or Databricks Apps?
Those suit data that already lives in Snowflake or Databricks. Both need every viewer to hold an account there, and both can keep billing for an app while nobody uses it. Here, the people you invite sign in to Fastero, and an app sleeps 10 minutes after the last person leaves.
Where do apps run?
On AWS in the US (us-east-1).

Bring one app over and open it with a colleague.

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