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Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
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Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
#22I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of…
Sounds like a good idea to me. Most people would go with the big company in my experience, but your niche is huge anyway. WPEngine seems to be doing alright still (I remember thinking no way would anyone pay for just WordPress hosting... I was wrong), as are the many small website/app/hosting providers/consultancies.
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
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Definitely the traffic. Wasn't expecting the front page. Working on it now.
I'd highly recommend Solr[0] for searching to cut down the load. Or, if this is a static site, you could use Lunr[1] to have an efficient search that runs on the client. Is this site OSS? [0] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ [1] https://lunrjs.com/
Thank you. I will check out Solr. I'm using Elasticsearch currently for the readmes, but I disabled it while troubleshooting so it's currently just searching on titles and descriptions via mysql. I will re-enable elasticsearch later and figure out how to better optimize it for future traffic.
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
#24I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of…
https://bitnami.com/stacks helps quite a bit (disclaimer, I am the cofounder)
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
#25I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of…
Synology NAS devices offer a few of features that you mention: email [0], calendar [1], document sharing [2], chat [3], office apps [4]
Shift/inventory management would need to be added via third-party software (or implemented in spreadsheets).
I've heard of companies setting these up for small businesses. [5]
[0] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/mailplus
[1] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/calendar
[2] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/drive
[3] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/chat
[4] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/office
[5] https://www.synology.com/en-global/wheretobuy/United%20Kingd...
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
#26I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of…
I did similar work between gigs a couple years back. There is absolutely a customer base for such things. But they don't have tech budgets - even pricing our services fairly cheaply, they would balk at the cost.
So there may be a business opportunity, but you need enough scale that each single customer is happy with the price.
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
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I'd highly recommend Solr[0] for searching to cut down the load. Or, if this is a static site, you could use Lunr[1] to have an efficient search that runs on the client. Is this site OSS? [0] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ [1] https://lunrjs.com/
Thank you. I will check out Solr. I'm using Elasticsearch currently for the readmes, but I disabled it while troubleshooting so it's currently just searching on titles and descriptions via mysql. I will re-enable elasticsearch later and figure out how to better optimize it for future traffic.
Ah, then there's no need to check out Solr! They both use the same backend search engine called Lucene.
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
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I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free. Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?
They terminate TLS for you.
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
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I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free. Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?
Most of the "HN crowd" like cloudflare a lot, as it's quite convenient, especially for personal projects. There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons: taking down too much, not taking down enough, centralization, etc.
Re: Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
#30I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of…
I did similar work between gigs a couple years back. There is absolutely a customer base for such things. But they don't have tech budgets - even pricing our services fairly cheaply, they would balk at the cost. So there may be a business opportunity, but you need enough scale that each single customer is happy with the price.
Yep. I wanted to do this with websites for mom & pop operations, but why would they pay me when they can get their nephew to set up Squarespace for them at $10/month?
I believe there is a niche to be served here, just not sure exactly how yet.