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A kubernetes desktop client that can connect to multiple cluster simultaneously

https://aptakube.com/

3 years later and I'm having fun building and growing Aptakube, a Kubernetes GUI

https://aptakube.com

I keep on grinding on my Kubernetes IDE that allowed me to quit my day job over 3 years ago: https://aptakube.com/

I’ve also been playing with Bun and I have a business idea that would be a good fit, and huge potential but I just don’t have enough time to start something new anymore.

99% of my customers buy straight from the website no questions asked.

I only get PO from larger companies, and I only do it if they’re buying a lot of seats, or if it’s a strategy customer

TIL

I shared with a couple of co-workers/friends and they all liked it, I then built a simple website with screenshots and a download button for free.

Then I started sharing the progress on LinkedIn/X, my co-workers shared on their network too which also helped.

After 4 months I put a price on it and sold it with a 50% discount for early adopters. A lot of people bought it, which to me was a signal that I was into something that could become bigger if I invested more time on it.

Dude this looks awesome! When I was a kid I used to read a lot of these "puzzle magazines", the ones we had were like:

- Start on page 1, read the story and decide if you want to take path A or B

- A = go to page 2, B = page 3

- then there was another decision making, and the story goes on...

Until you either escape the dungeon, or die (different ways of dying lol).

It was so cool!

I did not like any Kubernetes UI so I built my own https://aptakube.com

It went from side project to my primary job in less than 6 months.

Everyone was saying that $99 was too much for “an API wrapper”, but here we are, 2 years later and with hundreds of small to enterprise companies using it :)

This is really exciting news! 2 years ago I bet on Tauri to build Aptakube, instead of Electron, and it’s been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

It was early days, very risky, but well worth it in the end.

Surprisingly, calling my app “not another Electron” app has been a great marketing strategy :-)

Migration from v1 to Tauri v2 was very smooth as it’s clear the team spent a lot of time on DX. Highly recommend for anyone looking to build desktop apps (can’t say anything about mobile tho, I have no experience).

As an indie developer I celebrate every small win and this comment made me start the day with extra energy. Thank YOU!

Are you specifically looking for a free Kubernetes GUI?

If you’re open to commercial options, have a look at what Aptakube (https://aptakube.com) can do.

One feature that sets it apart from other UIs is connecting to multiple clusters simultaneously and seeing all resources in a single table.

Disclaimer: I’m the author

100% if you exclude Microsoft’s cloud? :-)

And then the fine would be proportionally much higher. No thanks, I use a MoR to sleep in peace. Also having a single revenue invoice for accounting makes things much easier

Thank you :)

I’ve been thinking of building custom UI for popular CRDs like FluxCD/Argo/others, but I need to get a few highly requested features out of the way first.

Part time freelancing is underrated. More people should try it. That frees up a lot of time for indie hacking

I’be been self employed for ~1.5yrs after quitting my job to build a GUI for Kubernetes [1]

It’s not easy to get started, but im very happy with this change after being a FTE for 15yrs. It’s a refreshing experience having to talk to customers to understand their pain points and then build something for it

I’m also doing some part time freelancing, so with my products + freelancing I’m earning way more than as a FTE

[1] https://aptakube.com

Site is dead?

Browser is working CloudFlare is working Host error

It’s all built based on tailwind ui and shadcd ui

Paddle

Where did you get that from? I only pay 10% fee on $1 online transactions

pay per install

Isn't this the same model Unity tried a few months ago and rolled back after being flamed by the community?

Awesome! Glad to hear you liked it :)

It’s Go and React

The only possible outcome if for them to shutdown this API or make it work as documented. There's already at least 10+ SaaS offering this as service.

This is not a boost, Index != Ranking

same result from what I've seen, but not scalable for larger amount of pages

It’s a custom solution, zero regrets building it. Gives me total control over how it’s done and didn’t take me that long to implement

The app is built with Tauri

During my previous job, when we were migrating to Kubernetes I couldn’t really find a GUI app that I liked, and most importantly, that could connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. We had 6 clusters and having to switch context constantly was annoying

I ended up building one [1] to use myself, shared with a few people and they loved it. I asked if they’d pay for it and to my surprise, a lot of people said yes. I’ve put up a website and a “pre-order” button with a regressive monthly discount. Sales were going up month after month, and a few months later I decided to quit my job to go all in on it.

Today, I’m averaging on ~€5k/mo from this app, but I’m still doing some part time freelancing, as well as building other products that are not as successful, but are making >€1000/mo

The latest one is open source, privacy friendly analytics for apps [2] that I’m still very actively working on. This is my current “side project” as the previous side project became my main job :)

There’s also an open source upvote site [3] that I started 6 years ago, but haven’t had much time to work on it lately, still generating $$ monthly

[1] https://aptakube.com [2] https://aptabase.com [3] https://fider.io

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