Day One: four products, and how we run them
Our first launch event, streamed on 19 October 2026: Boxly, CodeNav Account with its Wallet, Unpanel, Open Books, and a mailbox called Corvo. The keynote is online in full.
Day One was our first launch event: a keynote film streamed at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time on Monday 19 October 2026 (8 p.m. in Hong Kong and Beijing, 1 p.m. in London), on codenav.dev/day-one and on YouTube at the same moment. Everyone watching the site joined at the same second, like a room. The replay is on the same page, with chapters and subtitles in English and Chinese.
What was shown
Boxly. Real MySQL databases, PHP and Python in the browser, with an assistant that reads your schema before it answers, and classes, assignments and automatic grading for teachers. Boxly used to be called SQL Books; an account there is still an account here. It is live at boxly.codenav.dev.
CodeNav Account, and Wallet. One sign-in for everything we make, with passkeys and two-factor authentication. Inside it, from that day, a Wallet: one balance that pays for Boxly’s plans and its AI usage, with every charge in a ledger that says where it came from.
Unpanel. Our open-source panel for Linux servers. It installs with one command, and its agents connect out to the panel, so a server exposes no extra port. It is early software; the code is on GitHub.
Open Books. The keynote opened codenav.dev/open: every service we run, who runs it, and what we paid, from the company’s bank records. The total is about US$1.10 a month. The page has its own story: Open Books.
One more thing: Corvo. A new mailbox. Mail is sorted the moment it arrives, people first; a security alert or a parcel at the door goes to the top while it matters; a sign-in code sits on the message row with a Copy button; trackers are removed before you read; mail pretending to be someone you trust is called out; and an agent drafts in its own colour, with nothing leaving without your approval. On the web and on iPhone. The waitlist is open at corvo.cc.
Gifts and the draw
Codes appeared on screen during the keynote and worked for 24 hours from the start, without a purchase: 30 days of Boxly Basic with its monthly AI usage, priority access to the Unpanel beta, and early access to what comes next.
A six-character code was shown under the credits. Anyone who entered it within 30 minutes of the end was in the Day One draw, which was drawn in the open the next day. How that was done, and how to check it, is in The Day One draw, drawn so anyone can check it.
What it was made of
The keynote is a film, not a live stage: screen recordings of the real products, narration, and interludes between them. The stream itself was served from Cloudflare R2 behind a small Worker that released each segment as the room reached it, so a viewer who pressed play late still saw what everyone else was seeing.