Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.

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TLDR: Cloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.

I’m frustrated with the state of the digital world. The software we use is so misaligned with our own incentives (intentionally addicting, loaded with ads, tracking you and selling your data, enshittifying). Software is easier than ever to make; how did we end up here? I think a big reason is the shift of software into the cloud. Software served from the cloud (think Google Docs vs Microsoft Word) delivers a great experience - no install, accessible on all your devices, immediate sharing/collaboration. But to serve something in the cloud costs money, and so just about everything on the modern web has a company behind it - open source authors naturally don’t want to pay to serve their free software to the world. And those companies have a financial incentive fundamentally misaligned with our own.

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