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@heyandras
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~2 years ago, when I worked at
@codesandbox
, I donated around $2000 (sometimes 4k) each month to people in need.
Currently, my only income is around $7-800 (mainly donations), and I live off my savings.
Life is a journey. 🎢
I want to return to that stage where I can donate
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- Mom: Do you enjoy your job?
- Me:
🌶️ Look, Mom, we implemented PHP in 2023, but with a twist. It is complicated if you are not building a simple to-do app.
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With $20/m you can rent a server that handles an enormous amount of traffic, especially of static sites.
Be smart. Do not follow the hype.
Vercel gives 1TB bandwidth for $20/mo which is generous. In reality most wouldn’t hit that limit. But there will be a small percentage of customers who will hit that limit.
The pricing for overage is $40/100GB. So the next TB costs $400. If a site crosses 1TB bandwidth, it
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"To avoid losing big money, you need our (serverless) service to handle your traffic."
"Self-hosting is for hobbyists only."
🌶️ No.
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I almost never brag and typically don't celebrate wins, but I have to for my own well-being.
I should be proud of all I've achieved:
@coolifyio
is ramen profitable. 🍜
It makes ~$3,500/month, with a 97% margin.
This is far more than I ever imagined.
#buildinpublic
#opensource
Yee! New milestone! 🎉
I got my first backer for !
$5 MRR! 💰🚀
From what MRR can I change my location info to that MRR meter?😂
#buildinpublic
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Someone asked me how I maintain a 97% margin.
It’s simple: I’m not afraid of servers. 😂
5 servers: 2 for http requests, 2 for cpu heavy background jobs, 1 database. Plus a load balancer.
Honestly, what scares me is serverless, especially the billing part. 😬
I almost never brag and typically don't celebrate wins, but I have to for my own well-being.
I should be proud of all I've achieved:
@coolifyio
is ramen profitable. 🍜
It makes ~$3,500/month, with a 97% margin.
This is far more than I ever imagined.
#buildinpublic
#opensource
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Lots of people found me and
@coolifyio
because of the Vercel drama and asked, “Why does the self-hosted version have all the features available for free as in the cloud?”
It is simple. My whole purpose of is to give people a chance to really own their
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🌶️ Look, Mom, we implemented PHP in 2023, but with a twist. It is complicated if you are not building a simple to-do app.
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🌟Giveaway time 🌟
I'm giving away 5 copies of
@florinpop1705
's book! 🤯
You just need to like and retweet this tweet! 💪
It ends in 24 hours, so hurry up! 🏃♂️🏃♀️
#DEVCommunity
#100DaysOfCode
#CodeNewbie
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I'm 32 today! 🎉🥳 😊
You know what the most valuable lesson I learned so far is?
The two most important things in your life are:
- your mental health!
- your family!
Everything else is just coming after these!
Have a super awesome day and weekend! 🤩
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So,
@vercel
reverted all edge rendering back to Node.js 😬
Wanted to correct the record here as it's something I've advocated for in the past, and share what I've learned since then.
Also, the "edge" naming has been a bit confusing, so let's clear that up here as well.
What is
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🚨 It's time to introduce to the world my side-project that made me to leave a stable job at a multinational company in the middle of the pandemic.
It's called Coolify and on
@producthunt
today! 🚀
Thanks,
@csaba_kissi
for hunting! 🙏
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ExpressJS is good.
SvelteKit is good.
NuxtJS is good.
NextJS is good.
Remix is good.
Laravel is good.
Rails is good.
Django is good.
Angular is good.
React is React.
Vue is good.
Javascript is good.
Typescript is good.
PHP is good.
Ruby is good.
Python is good.
Elixir is good.
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@dobroslav_dev
@coolifyio
@Coolify
Thank you, now I can’t wait to give it a chance! The team behind coolify seems to have done a nice job👌
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🌶️ The more I get into
@laravelphp
, the more I question my previous eight years with Javascript frameworks.
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It's still unbelievable that my side project, which I started for fun three years ago, now helps many people save money and makes their lives easier. 💜
I'm cutting my monthly costs by more than 80% by self-hosting everything
I started indiehacking a year ago & was using mostly free services for my projects:
- Vercel
- Supabase
- PostHog analytics
- AWS EC2 first year free for micro instance
But over the last year, my projects
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🌶️ Tech has become a new religion where rationality and logic are suppressed by VC money.
Yet another day, yet another example of pure nonsense. They are simply trying to convince you that self-hosting is impossible, and you need to pay them.
Ignore them. Listen to facts.
We're all on the same page that running a sophisticated piece of business critical software with a database, exposure to the internet and stuff costs more than renting a single computer, right?
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The most requested improvement for Coolify is a better UI/UX/DX, and that’s crystal clear.
As a generalist, I have to admit I can't do everything, but I would like to address this issue.
I'm not looking for a shiny, fully animated app; just a polished one.
Who can help me? 🤔
The biggest problem with most OSS solutions for self-hosting, Dokku, CapRover, etc., is that they're all designed by engineers.
As soon as one of these partners with a good designer, it'll be game over.
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They cannot. I am on the edge of being fully sustainable by donations (💜) and cloud users (💜).
If I were after money, I could have taken a six-figure job or VC funding.
Instead, my goal is to make meaningful impact on the hosting ecosystem in the long term.
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🛠️ I've made an open-source and self-hostable (one-click with
@coolifyio
wink-wink) drop-in replacement for Vercel's Image Optimization service.
(lots of improvements needed for sure)
Should I create a hosted/micro-SaaS around it? 🤔
#buildinpublic
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😮 One of my followers told me that someone added
@coolifyio
as a paid service to GCP Marketplace.
I need to learn how to request a take down. 😅
Coolify is free and will be forever!
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My SaaS has 10,000 users + 25,000+ self-hosted users and when they asked for light mode, I made them one. 🤷♂️
My SaaS has 10,000 users, and not a single one has asked for dark mode.
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So many people thought that would never work. It's free, open-source, with no paywall for advanced features and no VC money. From a business perspective, it sounds like I'm mad. 😅
Do not listen to others. Do what you love and passionate about. 💜
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I'm living from my savings, with 2 children, working on a free, open-source & self-hostable software, and I'm European. 🤔
"I am building a startup!"
Americans: letss gooo!
Europeans: Hmm, I am not sure, in the current climate? What about the risks? You will never get a mortgage that way! Did you consider your pension? What if something happens? What if it doesn't work out! What is your backup
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🤯 Wow! I just found out that people are using my referral link from
@coolifyio
's documentation on
@Hetzner_Online
.
Thank you! 💜
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Almost every week, I find myself thinking that
@coolifyio
is a piece of... despite its success.
(I have to acknowledge that these feelings are absolutely normal.)
Then, out of the blue, someone anonymously donates $1000. 🤯 That is twice of my first salary.
Thank you! 💜
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Another day, another profit oriented VC move: killing their free plan and layoffs.
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For the first time in the last 7-8 months, my bank account balance in February didn't decrease compared to the previous month.
You're amazing! 💜
So, I've started to make a plan to give you even more goodies! 🛠️
Whoa, people are tagging
@coolifyio
everywhere as if there's no tomorrow. I try to keep up, but it's bonkers.
You are bonkers! 💜
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I've got goosebumps!
Just had my first chat with a company that wants the "Ultimate" subscription on
@coolifyio
cloud. 😱
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This would be an interesting listen.
I migrated
@coolifyio
from Express + Vue to Sapper, then to SvelteKit, and finally to Laravel.
Choosing Laravel was the best decision I ever made.
update: we're gonna be talking about this tuesday morning with
two successful framework authors:
@taylorotwell
and
@ryanflorence
one mediocre framework author: me
and
@adamdotdev
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Wow,
@coolifyio
has a new sponsor!
Thank you,
@runpod_io
. 💜
(I've never heard of them before, but they provide flexible, on-demand GPU calculations billed by the second. Sounds very cool!)
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Problem solved.
@heyandras
@coolifyio
I think you’re prices are way too low that gives a bit of uncertainty especially for bigger clients
Although it’s perfect and almost free you could definitely raise them at least 10$ as starting point! Love your work
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As a non-native English speaker, I exclusively use apps in English. 😅 It feels odd using them in my native language.
Am I alone in this? 🤔
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This will be addressed shortly.
@coolifyio
will review all your server configurations and provide guidance on what needs to be done - or apply changes with just one click!
@dobroslav_dev
@coolifyio
The less talked about part is securing and hardening the VM.
Installing coolify or other services like this isn’t enough. You want to make sure you update your VM, have a firewall, use a non-root user, etc.
It’s not as bad as it sounds, but it’s a part of the process and needs
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🌶️ When JS people realize how awesome PHP/Laravel is, they will make new PHP frameworks/libraries daily.
PHP will be the new JS.
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New software process development on the rise:
PDD - Price-Driven Development
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I learned this after 7 years of working with React, Vue, Svelte, other JS stuffs.
Since I've changed to Laravel, I'm happier and more productive.
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📢Today is the day for the announcement - I can't keep it. I was unsure when to do this post, now or after my vacation next week.
I will be working full-time on Coolify (and my other things) from next week! 😎🎉
No freelancing - for a while - so I can focus all my mental power
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Finally, I have the time to work on a major UI & UX update for
@coolifyio
. It's going to be fantastic! 😁
#buildinpublic
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Whoa, people are tagging
@coolifyio
everywhere as if there's no tomorrow. I try to keep up, but it's bonkers.
You are bonkers! 💜
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@levelsio
All the people getting bigger bills are GENERATING AND CACHING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HTML PAGES ON A CDN. Literally none of that is possible on a VPS without also spending lots of money and time on a CDN.
If your web service can comfortably run on a $5 VPS, it will almost
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Self-hosting all of these apps on a $6 ARM server with around 15% CPU usage.
~2000 unique visitors/day + 6M/month requests to coolLabs Fonts API.
If I need to recreate everything, it could take 15-20 mins with Cloud.
#buildinpublic
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You know what's crazy about this?
🌶️ Most developers have never even touched a server because the marketers, fueled by unlimited money, convinced them that they needed to use their hosted service or else they would fail.
I'm almost certain that any of those developers could
This is how you setup ONCE/Campfire for the first time. Couldn't be easier. Bunch of fun new tech we built to make it this seamless. Will share all of it. Like Thruster, our new config-less proxy accelerator for Rails/Puma that gives it HTTP/2, compression, caching, X-Sendfile.
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⚒️ I am working on the metrics feature for
@coolifyio
, both for servers and containers and I could not find a suitable solution.
So I built my own today. 😅
#buildinpublic
OSS, experimental, nothing fancy, but it works in the latest version of Coolify.
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I hesitate no more! 💪
I finally released the first non-beta version of Coolify! 🚀
You can deploy Node.js apps, Static sites, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchDB with one-click.
What's that? Read in the thread below (or on the link). 👇
#BuildInPublic
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🤣Thanks to
@marvr_
and
@tobias_petry
, I bought a domain for these stories:
I will fill up with the latest ones, but please send me links to these below!
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Would you like to have a one-click libsql (
@tursodatabase
) Sqlite in
@coolifyio
? 🤔
Hey, Database nerds:
When, or why would I not want to use SQLite? When would you choose mysql or postgres over sqlite?
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🌶️ Or just use a "warm server".
Next.js on AWS architecture 🚀 ⚡
💵 Costs less than $5/month (free tier)
☁️ Fully Serverless
🔄 ISR support
🖼️ Image optimization support
How this compares to Vercel?
Full comparison in the comments👇 🧵
#buildinpublic
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My whole budget for
@coolifyio
cloud is $20 per month, and I've spent about 2 days since October 2023 on maintenance.
If I distribute my apps like he did, it would be madness. Even looking at the list caused me headaches.
Choose simple things and fewer third parties.
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I'm the only one here who is not making a ton of content to get a ton of followers, but try to add quality and personality to each of my tweets? 🤔
I see a lot of people skyrocketing followers, but they are making the same content over and over again, and it's a bit boring. 🤷
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I'm randomly surfing on YouTube and this video popped up by
@ClarkDoesDev
.
Watched it, and he uses
@coolifyio
.
First time randomly found a video like this. I'm proud! 🤩
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🌶️After quitting coffee (caffeine) for two months, I can confidently state that coffee does not improve your productivity.
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⚒️ It is live!
Simple, pay-as-you-go pricing on the cloud, pay by servers you connect.
I'll lose approximately $100-150/month from the big users, but hey, it's more beneficial for everyone else. 💜
Now, it's time to migrate everyone to the new plan. 😅
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It is 7 AM, I released a new version of
@coolifyio
between preparing food for my kids and dropping them off at school.
AMA
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I can't help but wonder what would happen if they simply used a VPS (or 2+ with a load balancer).
In the worst-case scenario, their servers would be overloaded - still better than receiving a $23k bill. 🤷♂️
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A few people asked my opinion about this. So here it is:
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I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but today I received (another) bigger sponsorship from
@Flint_company
.
Thank you so much! 💜
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We are currently in a web development era where people fear dealing with servers, even though it can be automated.
Instead they dedicate hours to micro-optimizing TTFB, LCB, CLS, FFS, and ASD metrics in order to shave off a few milliseconds and debate over let and const.
Tip for bootstrappers: avoid thinking like this. Use managed services and just focus on selling instead of DevOps.
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🛠️ Today was a long day spent figuring out the best way to integrate
@caddyserver
into
@coolifyio
.
And it works! 😁
#buildinpublic
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🚢 Shipping a new mini OSS SaaS, without a logo, name, or shiny UI - hosted with
@coolifyio
😁.
It's a drop-in replacement for Vercel's Image Optimization service, with a free global CDN - unlimited usage without hidden fees or surprise bills.
Link in the next post.
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I got blocked by someone who I look up to. I really liked to read his tweets. 😔 He inspired me a lot!
The worst thing I’m not so active in the past weeks, so I have no idea why. 🤷♂️
What to do now? Can I do anything?
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Self-hosted instances++
Cloud customers++
Sponsors++
Thanks
@uxwizz
for the generious donation! 💜
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I just tweeted that I don't do giveaways for weeks, but then I found
@Prathkum
’s CSS cheat sheet.
So I'm giving away 100 of it!📚📚📚🤯
DM me for your free copy! First in, first out.
Responses will be delayed - obvious reasons. 😅
Let the spam begin!! 🔥🔥🔥
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With just a few lines of code (💜Laravel),
@coolifyio
cloud has:
- 1+n servers for running jobs (20K/hour) in load balance
- 1+n servers for handling incoming HTTP requests in load balance
Adding a new server: 2 mins
Recreating the entire infrastructure: 10 mins
Cost: $18
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People often ask me how I manage to work on something as complex as
@coolifyio
on my own.
Partly thanks to
@laravelphp
.
(Maybe partly because I'm a bit crazy? 🤪)
The todo application. 😅
But, seriously, here's the thing...
When Laravel and Rails developers say "full stack", they mean something totally different than when Next or Remix (React Router?) developers say "full stack".
In Laravel and Rails, it means there are built-in,
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This is amazing! 🤩
Big thanks to
@coding_garden
for dedicating so much time to create a comprehensive overview of
@coolifyio
!
I usually do not ask anything, but send him love (comment/like)!
I spent the last 2 weeks using and learning everything I could about
@coollabsio
's Coolify, a self hosted PaaS being built in public by
@heyandras
I documented everything in my latest video in the Self Host 101 series over on
@syntaxfm
Watch 🍿:
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📢Today is not a usual announcement.
As you probably know, I've been working on Coolify full-time for a few months now. During this time, I did not do any freelance gigs, just to focus on v4. This means I am burning my savings with my family - not literally. 🔥
The responses
Living on your savings (what I do now) is mentally challenging. Respect to anyone who is in the same shoes. 🫡
I try to not think of the bad side, and focus on the fact that I love what I do, and people love what I do. I enjoy it while it lasts. 💜
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Why not.
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🔥Introducing the highly requested feature: Light Mode!
Get it now for just $9.99 a month. 💰
Invest in comfort and save your eyes! 📈
#stonks
(jk)
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or use
@coolifyio
, so it won't be expensive and won't take your time. Once configured (just like Vercel or any alternative), it will get out of your way.🤷♂️
ok, vercel take: it’s expensive only if you consider your own time and effort to be worthless.
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$0 and only a few sign-ups.
Does that mean it was a waste of time (2.5 days)? Not at all.
Am I disappointed? Not at all.
- Made a template to speed up app development. ⚡
- I plan to market it and write blog posts on how you can save money with it.
Keep moving forward!
🚢 Shipping a new mini OSS SaaS, without a logo, name, or shiny UI - hosted with
@coolifyio
😁.
It's a drop-in replacement for Vercel's Image Optimization service, with a free global CDN - unlimited usage without hidden fees or surprise bills.
Link in the next post.
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Should I make a sever type in
@coolifyio
for self-hosted GH runners? 🤔
You just put an IP + GH token and boom.
Also it cleanup all the junk after the runs automatically, near 0 maintenance.
which of the faster/cheaper GitHub actions runners as a service things should we try? This feels like a lot
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Oh wow,
@webdevcody
made a video about
@coolifyio
. Mind = blown!
Thank you very much! 💜
I heard that the link works better in the second tweet.
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@MathieuJ85
well, Coolify stops management at the container level, so we are fine.
this change only means that I will add
@realkeydb
and
@dragonflydbio
🙂
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🛠️ I am nearly finished with the multiple server deployments. It's already functioning locally; I just need to make some final adjustments.
With , setting up a load-balanced service will take just 2 minutes.
#buildinpublic
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Just picture this scenario: Microsoft having a screenshot of your bank account, passwords, and all your personal information stored on a server to improve their models.
Even if you manage to turn off this feature, it somehow reactivates itself after an update. 😅
Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots
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🔥WHAT?! I've been () selected by
@appwrite
to be part of their OSS fund and sponsor it with $2500! 🤯
Thank you,
@eldadfux
and the team! Still trying to figure out what to say! 💜
#buildinpublic
#opensource
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I'm almost done with the first releasable version of
@coolifyio
CLI. Excited for the new use cases it will unlock!
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What used to be expensive is now cheap, but what was once free now comes at a cost.
It's like a magician. Look at my left hand while I do the real trick with my right.
Wow
@vercel
this is *terrible* comms. What an interesting way to frame "hi we are increasing your bill by 10x"
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- Automated Github release done
- Automated self-upgrade done
- Base CLI API figured out
Next? Release initial version tomorrow.
It won't be fully featured, but good base to extend overtime. So let's ship it!
I'm almost done with the first releasable version of
@coolifyio
CLI. Excited for the new use cases it will unlock!
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It's been a year since
@coolifyio
won the
@appwrite
OSS fund, but like all good things, it's coming to an end next month. 🫡
I cannot thank you enough for your support,
@eldad
and the Appwrite Team! Without you, I wouldn't be where I am today. 💜
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In the upcoming version of , you can deploy, Node, PHP, Python, Go, Deno, Rust, Java, Elixir, Ruby, Static sites, Zig, Ruby, C#, Scala, Swift, Crystal, COBOL, and a few more... 🤯
(And of course all the frameworks, Laravel, Nextjs...)
Sounds good?!
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@thekitze
Does it removes all the "this is how i made $10trillion in 24h" clickbaits as well? 😅
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Everything++
(getting close to 20k installed self-hosted instances 😱)
Thank you
@americancloudco
for sponsoring
@coolifyio
! 💜
Your support means a lot and truly makes a difference!
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You need a minimally designed blog on your domain's /blog path. All you need is Markdown, SEO tags, and images.
What will you use? 🤔
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I usually don't accept service-based sponsorships. The only exception is when
@coolifyio
's community benefits from it.
This one is a perfect fit!
A single tweet from
@dobroslav_dev
(thank you!!) led to this:
👉
Thank you,
@mintlify
! 💜
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