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PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting

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Re: PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting

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Post by lf-non »

m3nu wrote: post #7

Founder here. Nice surprise to see this posted. Any questions, drop them here.

This is very interesting. However, I recommend that you keep the pricing constant and cap the resource usage at your end. A lot of semi-technical folks would understand the value of owning data and using open source application but the "fuzziness" around pricing would put them off.

Re: PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting

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Post by js4ever »

simplehuman wrote: post #57
zokier wrote: post #25

Sounds a lot like sandcats (/sandstorm), albeit slightly less ambitious?

More like elestio (managed) and cloudron (selfhosted)

I would say Elestio is more focused on enterprise /startups needs and PikaPods more focused on individuals users

Re: PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting

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Post by apitman »

Sinidir wrote: post #64

How can you offer these prices? a 2GB ram 1 cpu app costs $2.87 approxmately a month. Thats a way lower than any vps provider yet you offer a managed solution which should add to the cost.

I assume they're overprovisioning and banking on the assumption that everyone won't need to access their data at the same time.

Re: PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting

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Post by anderspitman »

ekzy wrote: post #59
specialist wrote: post #51

Would a Plex pikapod make sense? I'd worry about bandwidth costs. I ask because a buddy was saying he wanted his own Plex instance, but doesn't have the inclination or time to figure out the hardware. Another suggestion might be Minecraft. My nephews have casually said they'd like their own server.

This app seems to target open source projects but Plex and Minecraft aren't open source

It supports FileRun which isn't open source, so Plex may be an option.

Re: PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting

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Post by irq-1 »

m3nu wrote: post #47
phh wrote: post #45

This looks pretty cool, thanks for doing that. I hope you'll manage to extend revenue share scheme. I would appreciate a bit more info about that revenue share scheme (like is photoprism getting 1c/user/month and it's just ""floss-washing"", or is it more? or maybe without showing an actual value, showing photoprims's developer opinion on whether they think the revenue share is fair would be nice) Even though this cl…

I won't share the precise % for each project, but the FAQ at the bottom of the page gives a hint. More than 1ct. Every project is encouraged to link to PikaPods if they think it's fair enough. Or if they want it as hosting option for their users. Hoping to expand FOSS financing over time. The revenue share won't be enough, I think. So I want an optional sponsorship option to directly support the project. And maybe ge…

If you look for foundations that service projects, like https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/ it could be easier to connect.
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