# Use Tugboat for development previews and possibly demos

**URL:** https://farmos.discourse.group/t/use-tugboat-for-development-previews-and-possibly-demos/742
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 3, 2021, 6:20am UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/use-tugboat-for-development-previews-and-possibly-demos/742 "2021-04-03T06:20:46Z")
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### Author: ![mstenta](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/farmos.discourse.group/mstenta/32/4_2.png) [@mstenta](https://farmos.discourse.group/u/mstenta)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/use-tugboat-for-development-previews-and-possibly-demos/742/2 "2021-04-03T11:50:21Z")

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I love this idea!

> what this means is we could build up “demo” farmOS sites, export the DB, and create a base preview from the DB dump

I also wonder if our previous thoughts around a `farm_demo` module (or perhaps a set of modules) would make this easier? And also be useful for other purposes…

(Context: [Example Data for FarmOS - #13 by mstenta](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/example-data-for-farmos/86/13))

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