Josef Strzibny
@strzibny
@marc and what about your goals? :)
I don't have any goals per se. But I'm trying to cultivate two relevant habits:
One is to be more strategic about where I spend my time rather than working on whatever comes across my path on a given day. This involves doing occasional reviews of my products, developing a (very rough) roadmap, being aware of the things that will substantially move my projects forwards.
The other habit is to "do it now". Especially the important things. Don't overthink things, don't try to plan out everything in detail. Instead of asking "what's needed to achieve this>" I will ask myself "what requirements aren't really requirements? what steps can I eliminate? how can I do it now?"
Those two seem somewhat at odds with each other, but I think they can be a powerful combo.
Not a first one to mention this but I think the market is too small for smth like this, especially when people can use many existing services [simply combining them]. I was thinking at one point that Kamal-based PaaS could be interesting - give people a lot of convenience without vendor lock-ins and so on. But right now it would be hard.
@marc and what about your goals? :)
I don't have any goals per se. But I'm trying to cultivate two relevant habits:
One is to be more strategic about where I spend my time rather than working on whatever comes across my path on a given day. This involves doing occasional reviews of my products, developing a (very rough) roadmap, being aware of the things that will substantially move my projects forwards.
The other habit is to "do it now". Especially the important things. Don't overthink things, don't try to plan out everything in detail. Instead of asking "what's needed to achieve this>" I will ask myself "what requirements aren't really requirements? what steps can I eliminate? how can I do it now?"
Those two seem somewhat at odds with each other, but I think they can be a powerful combo.
I want my first recurring revenue. Would be great if it's above $1000 but anything will surely be a milestone. I'll try to do it with 2 SaaS ideas (I don't think I'll have energy for more). I'll also try to create a video course to see how this goes.
I mentioned this idea to some other people before, but nobody seems to pursue it yet so perhaps it's worth considering: I'd pay to have some global overview of all my apps hosted with Kamal. A Heroku/Render-like dashboard of metrics, logs, trigger database backups, etc.
I think there could be a Sidekiq/Flipper-like approach where there's a limited open source version that people can self-host and would be recommended within the community as THE way to manage your Kamal apps. Plus a Pro/Enterprise/Cloud version that's perhaps hosted-for-you or comes with additional functionality available at a monthly/yearly license.
You might be uniquely positioned to pursue this idea given your Kamal experience.
Not a first one to mention this but I think the market is too small for smth like this, especially when people can use many existing services [simply combining them]. I was thinking at one point that Kamal-based PaaS could be interesting - give people a lot of convenience without vendor lock-ins and so on. But right now it would be hard.
@marc and what about your goals? :)
I don't have any goals per se. But I'm trying to cultivate two relevant habits:
One is to be more strategic about where I spend my time rather than working on whatever comes across my path on a given day. This involves doing occasional reviews of my products, developing a (very rough) roadmap, being aware of the things that will substantially move my projects forwards.
The other habit is to "do it now". Especially the important things. Don't overthink things, don't try to plan out everything in detail. Instead of asking "what's needed to achieve this>" I will ask myself "what requirements aren't really requirements? what steps can I eliminate? how can I do it now?"
Those two seem somewhat at odds with each other, but I think they can be a powerful combo.
sounds like could benefit from a prometheus exporter, what's your main observability tool? Grafana, Datadog?
None 😅
rip, I would recommend you pay for Grafana Cloud and setup a bunch of data sources. Could also use axiom as your "data lake" if needed.
Also, looks like kamal already has some docs on how to scrape data: dev.37signals.com/kamal-prome…
The choice of tools above it's probably the cheapest money can buy for great quality (speaking from personal experience). I expect you will just need the $20 plan on Grafana.
I don't use Kamal, but happy to share my setup if it helps, as the data charts will also be applicable to you.
I am mostly self hosting with Digital Ocean and Kamal.
I used to put everything on Netlify and Vercel. But they've raised SO much VC money. They're clearly going to need to make that back and then some. So, I'll gone back to self-hosting with Coolify.
is your $3k your ramen number or is it your normal cost of living?
Good question tbh I'm not really sure
Now it's my normal cost of living for me and my wife but we're trying to live as cheaply as we can while still having a standard that we're happy with for the next few years
If Ramen means bare bones survival then it's not my ramen number, but if it means a lifestyle that I'm happy to sustain then it is.
How do you look at it?
personally, ramen = can keep going have to make sacrifices, freedom number = can keep going with regular lifestyle (albeit no savings), so little insentive to have a job, dream number = what you really want to aim for with savings and whatnot