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Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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I think the time for this space is here. The appetite to depart from subscriptions and loaning your personal data to ad/ai companies is stronger than ever. Currently, a lot of this space is docker compose based and simply inaccessible to so many who may otherwise be interested. Whether or not it's this project or another, I hope something gathers enough steam soon to truly break the barriers to entry.

> The appetite to depart from subscriptions and loaning your personal data to ad/ai companies is stronger than ever. Only on HN, the general public don't care, they don't even know the name of their web browser.

Precisely. My uncle has been using the builtin Samsung web browser for years on his phone, just because it said "Internet" in the name, and "Chrome" just wasn't a familiar name to him. Most people are like this.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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We need gmail, docs and sheets replacements. With AI, maybe people can develop solid alternatives very quickly. And Linux phones. Trillion dollar companies try to extract more and more from us, the only response is for us to develop alternative solutions and continuously chip away at their strengths- what made them monopolies in the first place.

I haven't used it extensively, but I've heard cryptpad is good.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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There is a bit more mature project that does the same: https://selfprivacy.org

selfprivacy appears to be limited to a handful of services. e.g. It is not clear to me if I can host postgresql with it. i.e. It is not a general purpose container hosting product.
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