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It is an expensive way to do self hosting, yeah! I guess one reason is, sometimes it’s easier to just use one of big N clouds – e.g. if you’re in a regulated in

It is an expensive way to do self hosting, yeah! I guess one reason is, sometimes it’s easier to just use one of big N clouds – e.g. if you’re in a regulated industry and your auditors will raise brows if they see a random VPS provider instead. (Or maybe not? If you’re doing that kind of audits I’d love to hear your thoughts!) > Isn't at least half the point of AWS to use their SaaS thingies It is. (That’s how they lock you in!) I think it’s okay to use some AWS stuff once in a while, but I’d be wary of building your whole app architecture around AWS. I’m in the self-hosters camp myself :-) I’m building a Docker dashboard to make it easier to build, ship, and monitor applications on any server: https://lunni.dev/ https://lunni.dev/

amluto 2y ago
The is sort of petty, but… your web page does the horrible scroll-and-watch-the-content-fade-in thing. This is annoying and makes me want to stop reading. It also makes me wonder if your product does the same thing, which would be a complete nonstarter. Seriously, if I’m debugging some container issue, I do not want some completely unnecessary animation to prevent me from seeing the dashboard.
- notpushkin 2y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! No, the product’s UI is definitely on the pragmatic side: I think the only blocking animation we have right now is dialog windows sliding in (and we try to avoid these altogether!) Both the landing page and the app disable animations when prefers-reduced-motion is enabled. I’ll rethink the landing page animations a bit later! (I was thinking about redoing it from scratch again, anyway :^)
9dev 2y ago
I’ve just dropped you a note in the chat. We’re also on Swarm, and dealing with most of the stuff you address, and some more. Would love to contribute to Lunni, if you’re open to that :)
- notpushkin 2y ago
  Got the note, thanks! I’ll get back to you later today – would love to chat sometime :-)
lucb1e 2y ago
> I’d be wary of building your whole app architecture around AWS. Yep yep, we're on the same page here, just that it sounded a bit like you recommend people to use EC2, managed Postgres, and S3, when that seems a bit like that defeats the purpose of using a big cloud vendor in the first place since those products can be gotten much cheaper elsewhere Just clicked the link to your website: your hero statement I sorta have on a t-shirt (there is no cloud, just someone else's computer). The footer statement "To improve your browsing experience we don’t use cookies" I have nearly literally on one of my websites. We are definitely on the same page xD. The website seems to think I'm from Talinn btw, maybe a reverse proxy issue (that it looks up the IP address' location of a proxy instead of that of my German IP address)? I do second the remark posted in a sibling comment about fading in content, but (maybe you adjusted it already) it fades fast enough that it doesn't bother me as much as on some other websites. Could still be faster though imo Good luck with the product!

amluto 2y ago

The is sort of petty, but… your web page does the horrible scroll-and-watch-the-content-fade-in thing. This is annoying and makes me want to stop reading. It also makes me wonder if your product does the same thing, which would be a complete nonstarter. Seriously, if I’m debugging some container issue, I do not want some completely unnecessary animation to prevent me from seeing the dashboard.

notpushkin 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! No, the product’s UI is definitely on the pragmatic side: I think the only blocking animation we have right now is dialog windows sliding in (and we try to avoid these altogether!) Both the landing page and the app disable animations when prefers-reduced-motion is enabled. I’ll rethink the landing page animations a bit later! (I was thinking about redoing it from scratch again, anyway :^)

9dev 2y ago

I’ve just dropped you a note in the chat. We’re also on Swarm, and dealing with most of the stuff you address, and some more. Would love to contribute to Lunni, if you’re open to that :)

notpushkin 2y ago
Got the note, thanks! I’ll get back to you later today – would love to chat sometime :-)

lucb1e 2y ago

> I’d be wary of building your whole app architecture around AWS. Yep yep, we're on the same page here, just that it sounded a bit like you recommend people to use EC2, managed Postgres, and S3, when that seems a bit like that defeats the purpose of using a big cloud vendor in the first place since those products can be gotten much cheaper elsewhere Just clicked the link to your website: your hero statement I sorta have on a t-shirt (there is no cloud, just someone else's computer). The footer statement "To improve your browsing experience we don’t use cookies" I have nearly literally on one of my websites. We are definitely on the same page xD. The website seems to think I'm from Talinn btw, maybe a reverse proxy issue (that it looks up the IP address' location of a proxy instead of that of my German IP address)? I do second the remark posted in a sibling comment about fading in content, but (maybe you adjusted it already) it fades fast enough that it doesn't bother me as much as on some other websites. Could still be faster though imo Good luck with the product!