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I'm really excited for https://www.forem.com/ https://www.forem.com/ - when I get some free time I plan on making it easier to setup for beginners. PHPBB was "s

I'm really excited for https://www.forem.com/ https://www.forem.com/ - when I get some free time I plan on making it easier to setup for beginners. PHPBB was "self-hosted" - the old world of the internet was entirely "self-hosted". We can return again, to the old internet, anew. Everything old is new again!

mdm12 4y ago
Now if we can only convince VCs that 'web3' really means 'we host the servers again' and not that other nonsense.
- erulabs 4y ago
  Hah I work on this every single day. I'm building tiny web-servers for consumers over at https://pibox.io https://pibox.io - we like to say were "distributing the web; no blockchain required". Customers love the product, but VCs hate it xD
  - mdm12 4y ago
    Good on you for taking the road less traveled! I don't have the guts to pursue 'real' entrepreneurship like yourself, but I appreciate those who do!
    - erulabs 4y ago
      I would only say that sooner is better than later. During this startup I got married and had a child - and I don’t come from money or have a successful exit before - so chances are this is my one and only shot before I have to earn more money for my family. Fear is a funny thing. Trick is to have it chase you down the path, instead of standing in your way.
  - simjnd 4y ago
    This is awesome. Seeing the mention of an App Store made me think of Umbrel [1] which is still in alpha but is a very approachable GUI for managing services running on your Raspberry. [1]: https://umbrel.com/ https://umbrel.com/
    - erulabs 4y ago
      Nice! We consider Umbrel a bit of a sister company :) They are more crypto focused, and we're more self-hosting focused, but we overlap in many ways. Umbrel software runs great on our hardware!
      - simjnd 4y ago
        This is awesome! Your hardware looks fantastic, so pleased to see it had a Noctua fan. This is typically the kind of thing hardware manufacturers would try to save money on. Will definitely consider and spread the word about PiBox!
        erulabs 4y ago
        Thank you!! We splurged on the fan for sure - but it runs more or less silent and I love hearing the fan spin up and down when it boots - makes it feel like a proper server even though it's about the footprint of an iPhone :)
spaniard89277 4y ago
Flarum is worth checking too.
- simjnd 4y ago
  Came here to say this Discourse [1] seems to be everywhere but I like Flarum [2] a lot, seems to be a little bit closer to the phpBB spirit. Both are OSS and self-hostable. [1]: https://meta.discourse.org/ https://meta.discourse.org/ [2]: https://discuss.flarum.org/ https://discuss.flarum.org/
Giorgi 4y ago
That thing looks amazing! Nice UI. Yeah deploying on DigitalOcean or something similar would be real nice. RoR apps can be "prohibitive" when it comes to hosting environment. 99% of the hosting offers are PHP+Apache stack.

mdm12 4y ago

Now if we can only convince VCs that 'web3' really means 'we host the servers again' and not that other nonsense.

erulabs 4y ago
Hah I work on this every single day. I'm building tiny web-servers for consumers over at https://pibox.io https://pibox.io - we like to say were "distributing the web; no blockchain required". Customers love the product, but VCs hate it xD
- mdm12 4y ago
  Good on you for taking the road less traveled! I don't have the guts to pursue 'real' entrepreneurship like yourself, but I appreciate those who do!
  - erulabs 4y ago
    I would only say that sooner is better than later. During this startup I got married and had a child - and I don’t come from money or have a successful exit before - so chances are this is my one and only shot before I have to earn more money for my family. Fear is a funny thing. Trick is to have it chase you down the path, instead of standing in your way.
- simjnd 4y ago
  This is awesome. Seeing the mention of an App Store made me think of Umbrel [1] which is still in alpha but is a very approachable GUI for managing services running on your Raspberry. [1]: https://umbrel.com/ https://umbrel.com/
  - erulabs 4y ago
    Nice! We consider Umbrel a bit of a sister company :) They are more crypto focused, and we're more self-hosting focused, but we overlap in many ways. Umbrel software runs great on our hardware!
    - simjnd 4y ago
      This is awesome! Your hardware looks fantastic, so pleased to see it had a Noctua fan. This is typically the kind of thing hardware manufacturers would try to save money on. Will definitely consider and spread the word about PiBox!
      - erulabs 4y ago
        Thank you!! We splurged on the fan for sure - but it runs more or less silent and I love hearing the fan spin up and down when it boots - makes it feel like a proper server even though it's about the footprint of an iPhone :)

spaniard89277 4y ago

Flarum is worth checking too.

simjnd 4y ago
Came here to say this Discourse [1] seems to be everywhere but I like Flarum [2] a lot, seems to be a little bit closer to the phpBB spirit. Both are OSS and self-hostable. [1]: https://meta.discourse.org/ https://meta.discourse.org/ [2]: https://discuss.flarum.org/ https://discuss.flarum.org/

Giorgi 4y ago

That thing looks amazing! Nice UI. Yeah deploying on DigitalOcean or something similar would be real nice. RoR apps can be "prohibitive" when it comes to hosting environment. 99% of the hosting offers are PHP+Apache stack.