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My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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The idle sleep feature of Go Proxy could be a gamechanger since cheap servers can host lots of infrequently used apps. Guess it should become the standard and extend to background processes too, like a PM2 or Systemd. https://github.com/yusing/go-proxy?tab=readme-ov-file#idlesl...

How is go-proxy implementing idle sleep? Swap and/or CGI can do similar things, but maybe go-proxy uses knowledge of QPS to know which services to make idle?

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Here’s a business idea for someone: find the best open source/self hosted business and start up tools (such as a chat app, a project management tool, a wiki, etc) and offer startups a managed hosting service of those selected apps. Toss up a cheap but decent vps per client, run some open source monitoring tools for yourself, price as a flat rate per app under management (vs scaling rate of a per user seat in most Saa…

I think odoo is doing something like this. They offer a lot of different apps, from e commerce to project planning, to marketing to HR. But it’s priced per user.

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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post #28

Here’s a business idea for someone: find the best open source/self hosted business and start up tools (such as a chat app, a project management tool, a wiki, etc) and offer startups a managed hosting service of those selected apps. Toss up a cheap but decent vps per client, run some open source monitoring tools for yourself, price as a flat rate per app under management (vs scaling rate of a per user seat in most Saa…

I think flat rates either make you too expensive for a small/scrappy operation getting off the ground, or too cheap to be able to offer what a large client might want (without additional agreements). In practice, this feels like the space that individuals doing sysadmin/IT stuff for local businesses are covering to me, but with even more caveats.

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I self host about 30 services. Each of them is in a docker container and I do not know what happens inside. I only configure the startup in a YAML file and I am done. Works great.

This is a blessing and a curse. If there is a bug or something that you need to debug in it, it can be painful

I don't find debugging in docker containers difficult, but maybe that's only because I've been doing selfhosted stuff in docker for a few years. Usually exec'ing into a bash she'll inside the container satisfies my need to easily run commands inside the container.

What about debugging is difficult for you when docker containers are involved?

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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post #28

Here’s a business idea for someone: find the best open source/self hosted business and start up tools (such as a chat app, a project management tool, a wiki, etc) and offer startups a managed hosting service of those selected apps. Toss up a cheap but decent vps per client, run some open source monitoring tools for yourself, price as a flat rate per app under management (vs scaling rate of a per user seat in most Saa…

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