Sharing for awareness in case of value for any HNers, this little app helped get subscriptions online for a hobby project and has now been open sourced (MIT). There are bigger established alternatives and as is explained in the readme, this one is designed to be encapsulated, ideomatic, and end-user privacy-preserving.
These are great. Having tooling to get stuff out fast and as safely as possible to get to iterating openly.
Here’s a bash script I posted a while back on a different thread that does similar thing if of interest for anyone. It’s probably less nice than op’s for ex it only works with digitalocean (which is great!) - but it’s simple small and mostly readable. also assumes docker - but all via compose, with some samples like nginx w auto-ssl via le.
Imho there is hype and bubble yes but not at the core: at the core is AGI in 5 years and significant change. The bubble/hype is coming from where it seems to always come from - the non-core camp.
It’s eliminated a mental barrier to building products where I was worried before I had limited time to work and needed to focus on things that drew from existing familiarity.
Now I’m able to focus on the product/outcome even if what’s involved is outside what I’m familiar with and at least get started building.
The net effect has been I can build a wider variety of things in a wider variety of tooling with more enjoyment and less drudgery.
- text summaries
- sysadmin stuff
- debugging stuff
- boilerplate stuff
- unblocking writers block
- integrating disparate stacks
- data transformation and algorithm stuff
- most marketingy stuff: copy, images, campaign/activations
Genuine q. The main thing stopping me from self hosting is security. Having a box in the cloud get hacked as long as data is properly encrypted and secured - not good but also can easily destroy and spin up anew.
But having your home server hacked and then presumably your entire home network and everything in it - seems way too fraught to even attempt it.
Thoughts on that? Am I just too unfamiliar with network security and this actually solved now — and there is already a well-defined trusted approach to this?
Please do! Besides being a fun exercise it’s also a neat idea. Comments from the HN community make the content posted almost always more interesting imho