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Software for One

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Re: Software for One

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Post by ceritium »

I really believe in this software for one, or at least, be able to customise it as you need.

On that premise, I started building during a weekend, thanks to Claude, a small platform so I and, in theory, my family could deploy easily complex apps with a DB, emails, crons, background jobs, image processing, etc and without the risk of getting bitten by the cloud.

My family never used it, of course, but I deployed around 14 apps for me, friends, and family on a single VPS with 256 MB.

https://onvibe.run/

Later on, I discovered lovable and other services... when someone told me, " Hey, you just built lovable!

However, I really enjoyed the "design" of this system, and it's been useful for me. I am somewhat proud of the meta thing because Onvibe exposes an mcp, that allows you to build apps that can also expose MCPs...

Re: Software for One

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Post by ajwaxman »

mynegation wrote: post #146
spot5010 wrote: post #134

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As a new father, just using so many apps sounds exhausting, let alone building and maintaining them. I would have been very excited about these maybe 10-15 years ago. Now I just want the ability to do things with my phone when my hands are tied up holding the baby.

Tell me about it. Holding a 4mo old right now, nap trapped :-) Speaking of which - Claude Code wrote me a web proxy for HN that rewrites CSS for the dark mode - precisely for this situation. Written and deployed with Claude Code remote control too, also while nap trapped.

Ha amazing! Brings back memories of holding our sleeping son and voice to texting with Claude on pat leave

Re: Software for One

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Post by ajwaxman »

Quite the nice surprise to see this hit the front page after getting back from a long road trip that included explosive diarrhea from our son on the last pitstop

Love seeing all the other personal apps people are building

Re: Software for One

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Post by eloisius »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #260
eloisius wrote: post #249

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> They're still building the systems that you already have in place. Bull. They're doing highly sophisticated procrastination. I'll never become a great photographer by vibe coding the perfect tool for my workflow that selects, ranks and edits the 100 photos I took this week, or one that tells me where to stand and when to click the shutter. I have to be out shooting thousands of photos every week and laboring over t…

I think the whole point of OPs post is that they didn't spend a bunch of time coding the apps, since a LLM did it for them with a fairly simple prompt. > I have to be out shooting thousands of photos every week and laboring over the editing Why? Ansel adams would only shoot 20 photos a week on average. Why are you procrastinating by spending so much time with the camera instead of just having naturally good taste lik…

Ansel Adams’ greatness wasn’t shooting. It was printmaking. He invented a system for getting the maximum tonal range in a print. In fact he spent so much time printmaking that he would sometimes reshoot a print (take a picture of a picture) to save that negative as the canonical one to make additional prints from, because it would be impossible to replicate all the dodging and burning that he did to make that perfect print. Having done a little darkroom work myself, I can’t even begin to guess how much time he spent in the darkroom.

Aside from that, I don’t know why so many people on this site seem to hold Adams up as the world’s greatest photographer. His work was great for its time, but if someone was shooting the same things today it would most likely be lost in the deluge of boring postcard landscapes. Contemporary photographers that are great shoot a ton. Watch an in-the-field video with Martin Parr. Someone like that comes home with hundreds or maybe over a thousand frames from an afternoon at the fair.

Re: Software for One

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Post by _dark_matter_ »

tptacek wrote: post #60
_dark_matter_ wrote: post #58

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This sounds like such a security risk. It just takes one bad library. Your phone and desktop are not a sandbox.

These are all simple SwiftUI applications with minimal dependencies. My phone, by the way, definitely is a sandbox.

Interested to hear more. Auditing dependencies is hard. You fully trust the app restrictions on your phone?

Re: Software for One

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Post by wojciii »

camgunz wrote: post #169
LtWorf wrote: post #135

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Perhaps just say "here in northern jutland" next time?

No one knows where that is. I've also heard this is very common in the northern Scandinavian countries, there are even little "houses" you can buy.

I should have provided a google maps link, but I was afraid to. I don't trust the Google map sharing. :)

I will do better next time. :)

Re: Software for One

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

p2detar wrote: post #108
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #100

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They basically inserted themselves between clients and developers. A few corporations ingested developer work and offered clients to pay a fraction, not giving anything back to developers.

Indeed, but it probably won‘t get any easier for us devs when clients also get easier access to open weight LLMs. I mean from personal experience 40 tok/s on an M3 pro with gpt-oss-20b holds up quite well for lots of tasks. Thinks are changing so fast.

Probably zero of your clients would run them locally (you might, but this is a tiny minority). Also they will never be as good as commercial models. And legality/ethics is still questionable if it is trained on GPL code but is offered under AL2.
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