Community Garage is live
Today Community Garage goes from "coming soon" to live. A social layer for AutoBrain is now running on AutoBrain-hosted — with a federation hub connecting builds across instances at hub.autobrainservice.app.
What's now available
Community Garage turns the vehicle data you already track into something social: publish a build — car photos, specs and your mod list — browse builds from other owners, and follow the action across AutoBrain instances.
- Build posts. Share a build with photos, specs and a full mod list, drawn from the vehicles and mods you already track in AutoBrain.
- Local social. Comment and like on builds within your instance, tied to the build's home server.
- Federated feed. Instances that opt in to the hub see each other's builds in one feed — one community, many servers.
- Shareable build links. Share any build with a link that works across instances, no matter which server the viewer is on.
The federation hub
AutoBrain is federated, not centralised. The hub at hub.autobrainservice.app routes posts between participating servers — it never stores your photos or your data. Your photos, vehicles and mods stay in your instance's own database. Sharing is opt-in per build, and you choose exactly what's in each share: photos, make and model and mod list by default, plus odometer and notes if you want. Nothing is public by default, and server admins can keep social entirely local or switch the feature off.
Pricing
Community Garage is a premium feature, part of AutoBrain's paid plans:
- Local social is free on every server — self-hosted or hosted.
- Federation is included free with AutoBrain-hosted plans (Enthusiast and Garage, already priced on Stripe).
- Self-hosted servers pay $20/yr to join the hub at federation sign-up.
How to join
- Sign in to hosted.autobrainservice.app with a paid (Enthusiast or Garage) plan.
- Open Community Garage from the app menu and opt a build in for sharing — choose exactly what's public.
- Browse the feed, like and comment on other owners' builds, or follow the federation at hub.autobrainservice.app.
Running your own server? Local social is already available; opt in to federation for $20/yr at join and your builds will appear in the hub too.
Questions? Email [email protected] or visit the Community Garage page for the full feature rundown.