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Looks succinct and minimalistly practical. Is it totally open-source in the sense that I can replicate the 1mb.site on my own server using 3-4 the repos publish
by aurora72 7y ago
Looks succinct and minimalistly practical. Is it totally open-source in the sense that I can replicate the 1mb.site on my own server using 3-4 the repos published on Github?
- 1mbsite 7y agoThank you! You can’t self-host 1MB, but we do offer some open source software on our repo at https://GitHub.com/1MB https://GitHub.com/1MB
- aurora72 7y agoSorry I have no time for closed-source things.
- 1mbsite 7y agoFair enough! I just can’t make all my hard work open source.. I’m trying to build a business. There’s a time and a place for open source, and I’d only be helping my competitors as an indie developer.
- krapp 7y ago>There’s a time and a place for open source, and I’d only be helping my competitors as an indie developer. With all due respect, your "business" is static web hosting, which is not exactly a revolutionary or paradigm shifting concept. There's likely little to no competitive advantage in any of the code you've written, or disadvantage to open sourcing it (although it's understandable if you don't want to open source it, then be left on the hook to maintain it.) It's fine if you want to try to make money with a passion project, but as far as the market is concerned, you already lost the race to social media and the cloud before you even started. You're not actually competing with anyone in any meaningful sense, any more than Hacker News is competing with Reddit.
- 1mbsite 7y agoIf my concept was easy to implement they wouldn’t be asking me to open source it :) 1MB is over half a year of hard word I only make it look easy
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- hopscotch 7y agoIt's a static file host with a nosql database and a text editor. There's a very clear migration path if you don't want to use their service.
- pryce 7y agoand LetsEncrypt out of the box, which is gravy