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Hi my name is Ruslan.

I am building DollarDeploy (control plane for your own servers, aka Vercel for your VPS), before that I was building Valosan (Press relations CRM and PR platform for startups)

Startup founder, AI, full-stack & product engineer, software architect.

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Agree on how scary it is to do npm upgrade right now.

But I don't understand why Dependabot is bad but Mendral is good. Why Dependabot will be an attack vector and Mendrol will not?

Do_not_track 3 months ago

Also this, we disable it when building or deploying apps in DollarDeploy

export SEMGREP_SEND_METRICS=off export COLLECT_LEARNINGS_OPT_OUT=true export STORYBOOK_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 export NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 export SLS_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 export SLS_NOTIFICATIONS_MODE=off export DISABLE_OPENCOLLECTIVE=true export NPM_CONFIG_UPDATE_NOTIFIER=false

Is it for managing my software deployed in the customer's cloud environment? Would you support simpler deployment targets, like on premises VMs etc?

At DollarDeploy we developing the platform to deploy apps to VMs with managed services provided, kind of like Vercel for your own servers. Would be interesting to try alien for enterprise customers.

Working on AI chat implementation for DollarDeploy (platform to automate DevOps, kind of like Vercel for your own servers.

Neat thing about AI chat is that you can write in any language and it will automatically translate and use the right tools (create VPS server, build and deploy app).

# Tell HN

Tell what you want about Microsoft, but Bing have real customer support which will answer.

I had a problem with DollarDeploy.com (main website) not appearing on bing.com (and duckduckgo.com as well, since it uses Bing). Any other third-party resource was appearing but not main website.

I tried everything - updating website for better SEO, meta tags etc. Finally I reached out to support and they answered me and fixed indexing problem quickly in 3 days:

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From: Bing Webmaster Tools Support Team <bwtsupport@microsoft.com> To: hello@dollardeploy.com Subject: RE: [UCM000006932892] Bad Search result: Other | https://dollardeploy.com/ | hello@dollardeploy.com Date: Feb 26, 2026, 12:35 PM

Hi,

We have investigated your query and escalated the issue to our engineering team. We will inform you once we receive a response. Please let us know if there is anything else we can do.

Thank you, Technical Support Engineer

My nitpick with Cursor is that they don't support sending invoice via e-mail - you need to login to the Dashboard to get the invoice PDF for account purposes.

Doing this is such a drag, because besides this, there is no other reason to go to that dashboard.

"... If a new feature requires additional tables, they must be in alternative sharded systems such as Azure CosmosDB rather than PostgreSQL...."

So it is not really scaling too much now, rather maintaining current state of things and new features go to a different DB?

I have the same issue with DollarDeploy and Bing (and consequently with DuckDuckGo which uses bing)

Primary domain cannot be found via search - Bing knows about brand, LinkedIn, YouTube channel and but refuses to show search results about primary domain.

Bing search console does not give any clue, force reindexing does not help. Google search works fine.

Why Self-Host? 9 months ago

Unfortunately, it is not realistic to have all the apps we frequently use as self-hosted. Mail, Instagram, etc, come to mind, all social apps.

I wish I could have a way to live sync between a cloud service and my own infrastructure, not only as a backup, and as a way to query that data.

Good start, but there are many, many things that should be improved if you are running this as a production setup.

Including node & PM2 update to the latest, running PM2 as a systemd service, or simply ditching PM2 altogether, as well as backups, performance settings, and monitoring, log rotation, and cleanup, etc.

Beware of using the same server for running the apps and for building the app. Quite often, building the app needs a lot of RAM and CPU, so it is undesirable to do it on the same host.