This looks like piku[0], but a deal more complex and limited to GitHub.
Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify
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#72This looks like piku[0], but a deal more complex and limited to GitHub. [0] https://piku.github.io/
Very cool. I focused on building a web ui, but wanted to add a CLI, I'll definitely take some inspiration from that project.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Vercel does a ton of specialized work under the hood, not sure how much they could expose the underlying infra.
Easy, extend the list of options https://vercel.com/docs/functions/runtimes Go is in beta for years, for a company that depends so much on Rust tooling nowadays, I guess it would be about time that Rust would graduate out of a community runtime. Also, their containers are based on Amazon Linux 2023, so they could also extend the support there. https://vercel.com/docs/builds/build-image For me, I see that as they pivo…
Interestingly, Vercel actually supports FastHTML. Experimentally, but it worked fine when I tried it.
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#74Not sure why the comparison is to Vercel when it probably should be compared to Coolify/Dokploy
Perhaps because migrating from Vercel is a hot topic lately.
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#75Opens project supposed to automate typescript deployments...it's a bunch of python.
So now I'll have TWO clusterfucks of infested dependencies to deal with instead of just one.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coolify.io is definitely more mature. I built /dev/push because I wanted to offer a more streamlined UX, closer to what Vercel offer. I am planning on adding more runtimes (there's a PR for Bun for example), support for custom containers and support for Docker Swarm, allowing you to manage multiple servers with a single instance.
I think you can get stronger by building your own identity (rather than "like vercel") - starts with the headline/tagline and pitch in a way that stands on its own. "Open source X alternatives" are dime-a-dozen and put a limit on what you can be in the eyes of users. It also sets expectations such that differences easily become disappointment. Not having a global CDN can otherwise simply be out of scope but can be "m…
The trouble I have is that when I see a headline like this on hackernews my first thought is always "huh.. so what are netlify and vercel?" Maybe most people on here already use those daily but not being in web development I usually don't.
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#77Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify
#78I struggle to grasp what it does. What's Vercel and what that does? Someone here in the comments mentioned coolify.io and Dokploy as more alternatives. None of those projects have a good description of what they do. They just "ship anything to anywhere". That's too broad, I need details, I need a short explanation of their basic mechanisms. Tiresome!
It says self-hosted PaaS everywhere on their sites, you're one Google search away from finding out what it is.
Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify
#79I struggle to grasp what it does. What's Vercel and what that does? Someone here in the comments mentioned coolify.io and Dokploy as more alternatives. None of those projects have a good description of what they do. They just "ship anything to anywhere". That's too broad, I need details, I need a short explanation of their basic mechanisms. Tiresome!
If you're familiar with cPanel, these tools are basically cPanel for the 2020s.
As a web developer, you develop your app on your computer (normally), but then folks can't actually access your app when it's running on your computer, it needs to be deployed to a publicly accessible web host.
Basically, these tools run on your servers and give you nice front ends which allow you to build and host your web apps.
Most of them integrate with your version control system so you can automatically build and deploy your app based on specific rules (often 'when main gets updated') or allow you to create preview deployments (if I merged my-feature-branch into main, what would my web app look like?)
Coolify and Dokploy do this with containers, this tool apparently doesn't.
Vercel, Netlify and others offer this as a service (you pay us $X per month and we manage it all for you), these tools run on your own server (either one you actually own or one you rent from a cloud provider).