Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal • Hacker News Board

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by nine_k » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

ramesh31 wrote: post #10

andrasbacsai wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most recent Github stars are came from big tech youtuber's videos. GH stars of Coolify built over 4 years.

Most recent Github stars are came from big tech youtuber's videos. That's kind of my point. It's becoming impossible now to tell the difference between long running stable repos vs something someone with social media followers just started pushing by stars alone anymore.

A star growth chart, summarized by month, would give a good idea of whether this is steady growth or a meteoric rise overnight. (Storage costs of such a chart are negligible.)

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by kevinak » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

squidhunter wrote: post #5

Has anyone tried out Tau [1]? It's similar to Coolify but supports multiple nodes which is appealing to me as I have spotty internet and distributing an app across several pi's in different locations sounds ideal. [1]: https://github.com/taubyte/tau

Coolify also supports multiple nodes

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by meiraleal » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

ajkjk wrote: post #6

I feel like it's only possible to get excited about software anymore if it's open source and not in the control of some vendor. Not because I care a lot about the ideology of free software, it's just because the way corporations take over and ruin/sell out everything has been so demoralizing.

What are you talking about? Corporations ruining open source is the norm in 2024, indie devs hiding their source code from corps takeover is the new free software.

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #11

ramesh31 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most recent Github stars are came from big tech youtuber's videos. That's kind of my point. It's becoming impossible now to tell the difference between long running stable repos vs something someone with social media followers just started pushing by stars alone anymore.

A star growth chart, summarized by month, would give a good idea of whether this is steady growth or a meteoric rise overnight. (Storage costs of such a chart are negligible.)

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Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by password4321 » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 5:46 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #11

ramesh31 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most recent Github stars are came from big tech youtuber's videos. That's kind of my point. It's becoming impossible now to tell the difference between long running stable repos vs something someone with social media followers just started pushing by stars alone anymore.

A star growth chart, summarized by month, would give a good idea of whether this is steady growth or a meteoric rise overnight. (Storage costs of such a chart are negligible.)

> A star growth chart

... as is included in the article (vs Dokku), FWIW.

https://blog.api-fiddle.com/post-media/0008-graph.png per https://star-history.com

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by password4321 » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 5:48 PM UTC

andrasbacsai wrote: post #8

ramesh31 wrote: post #7

>However, Coolify’s explosive growth in 2024 suggests we’re witnessing a different level of adoption and impact on the wider software community. This worries me about the state of Github more than anything else. For the past couple years now we've been seeing these "viral" repos that catch on for one reason or another, get tens of thousands of stars in a few months (in part due to posts like this), and then languish.…

Most recent Github stars are came from big tech youtuber's videos. GH stars of Coolify built over 4 years.

> GH stars of Coolify built over 4 years

That is not how I understood the chart in the article (vs Dokku), 2024 hockey stick!

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by jazzyjackson » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 6:09 PM UTC

I liked coolify when I was hosting my wordpress, bitwarden, and a couple of personal projects via github on a VPS, it made the annoying step of getting certs for all the https domains into a one click operation.

Once I forgot my password to the admin panel and it just wasn't that big of deal to blow away the VPS and set it all up from scratch. Feels good to not be anxious about that.

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by federalfarmer » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 6:12 PM UTC

kevinak wrote: post #3

Coolify is awesome! We use it for lots of things at Svelte Society. From self-hosting marketing and analytics to running our own Nextcloud instance as well as a bunch of other stuff.

I've missed the Vercel/Coolify hype train, the last "seamless" deployment platform I touched was Heroku.

What makes Coolify so useful?

It's never taken me more than 30 minutes to deploy self-hosted tools, from Nextcloud to Prosody, even without Docker. These "serverless" platforms certainly aren't any cheaper than bare metal and are at best marginally quicker to deploy, so what makes Coolify so useful to you?

Is it easier to maintain, manage dependencies, or load balance over time? What am I missing?

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by jaredlunde » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 6:23 PM UTC

Shameless plug but I built https://flexstack.com for similar reasons. I wanted a Render/Vercel alternative on my own AWS account and all of the other options either didn't go far enough or were way too expensive for someone bootstrapping.

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by federalfarmer » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 6:23 PM UTC

meiraleal wrote: post #13

ajkjk wrote: post #6

I feel like it's only possible to get excited about software anymore if it's open source and not in the control of some vendor. Not because I care a lot about the ideology of free software, it's just because the way corporations take over and ruin/sell out everything has been so demoralizing.

What are you talking about? Corporations ruining open source is the norm in 2024, indie devs hiding their source code from corps takeover is the new free software.

>indie devs hiding their source code from corps takeover is the new free software.

High power level take.

The Stallman ethos of Free Software simply hasn't played out the way idealists thought it would. Instead, libraries are standardized by megacorps to farm employees inculcated into their design patterns and get GitHub clout chasers to fix bugs for free.

Open source really needs something like the CC-BY-NC-ND* license. Code is open but you can't profit from it. Unmodified redistribution requires credit. You can modify the code for personal use but you can't redistribute it without permission.

This model at least eliminates the potential maliciousness of a lot of closed-source software while leaving room for indie devs to profit from their work.

*[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/]