So I'm guessing this will work mainly for customers that are running actual compute or K8S already?
The real challenge of a Cloud exit is undoing the years of gradually getting vendor locked-in. Not only do you use the services it provides, the software you might have written also uses the SDK's, is tightly coupled etc. I'm not even taking IAM into account, which is vertically integrated everywhere, in the equation.
And this isn't only on a technical level but also organizational. So i'm out of the cloud, my staff still doesn't know anything about managing dedicated servers and other solutions. I'm now fully dependent on a firm which main focus is doing migrations? How would that work?
What kind of business is your target audience here?
The last migration we did included a full kubernetes migration. We used k3s and it works beautifully on baremetals with an insane amount of resources now. Earlier devs were used to provisioning 0.5 cpus for a node, now they have so much resources to play around.
Very very important points about the sdks getting locked in into the prioprietary cloud s/w. This will need to be fixed by your dev team. However what we have noted is that the time and effort to fix these issues are much less when your dev team can ask a claude agent to look through code and make a particular feature of postgres x to be compatible for postgres y. This is a big committment of course.
We would assume that you will develop capabilities slowly to operate your infra, just like you have done for cloud. you can potentially use the same team that manages your cloud infra to do this also. contracting is probably the easiest to fix :)
There is an old Dutch saying which goes: "Trust comes afoot and leaves on horseback". When you're in the compliance business you cannot fumble this ball, but you have.
Looks great. I was a user of babybuddy[1] and one the pluses was that I could self-host and be in control + had an API. Now that last bit was a bit overkill.
It had one feature that's maybe essential and that I'm missing here, and that is being able to share the app and data with your partner so both are in control of monitoring, maybe I'm overlooking it but I can imagine that's hard to integrate with a PWA that does not use accounts.
One last thing: "no accounts", but filling in the email field is mandatory, i'd skip that.
The email is mandatory but you can input "no@no.no" - I placed it _before_ deciding i wouldn't make an account mandatory; Good catch, will be removed :)
For now, data sharing is via "export / import" (you can access it on the tools page) - It's not very robust, but I have yet to find a solution that doesn't involve me having a server receiving any kind of data (which is my north-star), I'm still exploring this as I ended up with the same problem as you: only I can control the data and my partner has to rely on me.
I'll send you a ping once I figure out a more robust and equally private way of sharing the data :)
Good news (everybody)! I’ve officially removed the email requirement and implemented a decentralized sync engine that keeps to my 'no-server' north star.
I ended up using Nostr as the backbone. Here is how it works now:
No Accounts: Your identity is a cryptographic key pair generated locally. No emails, no passwords.
Privacy-First Sync: When you want to share with a partner, you create a 'Vault.' This generates a shared secret key (NIP-44) that you share via a QR code.
Decentralized: Data is encrypted on your device and synced via decentralized relays. Even the relay operators can't see your baby's logs—it's just gibberish to them.
Self-Hosting Friendly: Since it uses Nostr, you can even point the app to your own private relay if you want 100% control over the infrastructure.
The website does not show anything on how the product is used, which is kind of important for me as a potential customer. Especially if it's going to be effectively handling my copy/pasting of sensitive information.
Does it use some client, what do I need to install on my devices (if supported) and what permissions does it need etc? Instead I'm greeted by a login page.
It's not transparent enough for me how the product is used before signing up and that's a huge turn off.
Seconded. I've been using NetNewsWire for a couple of decades, and it does the unglamorous job of displaying feeds without ads, nags, or feature churn.
I'm not sure if i fit in the group this is meant for but as a point of feedback: I really can't make up from your description and the front page what youphenom actually _is_ or does. The descriptions and examples on the website could use a lot of improvement to deliver the context and message, it's just too vague.
The general styling of the app and website look and feel a bit outdated, maybe a bit resemblant of how apps looked like on the early iPhone. I think this could be a big limiting factor in attracting new users for your platform.
I hope this isn't too harsh or blunt, I think the combination of games and social networking could work, but only if it's executed really well in order to attract the users it needs.
I can recommend organizing some feedback sessions with testers or users that are outside of your team or company and gather first impressions in order to improve on the above.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughtful feedback. Bluntness and even harshness are appreciated as they help us to (re)consider what is potentially not well explained or not well designed.
I’m pretty sure there is more to be desired from the description, but part of it is that such concept does not exist. Similar to how alien seemed to offer a service where users can upload pictures of their lunch or stay at strangers’ homes, it’s probably unclear why is this necessary/useful.
Trying to simplify the description takes away some of the dimensions to it, but the platform is like a professional league for social media content creators.
Another example, what the platform does: For example Nike had brick and mortar stores and great sales even before the Internet, but doing their business online greatly expanded their sales and brand awareness. Sports teams to this day don’t have this opportunity - to compete online (not just sell some merch). It would be too long to list all the ramifications/benefits from this, but they are similar to before and after businesses started to engage with customers on social media.
As for the outdated design, we like to think of it more as classic, but we understand your point.
We’ll definitely consider your recommendations
Cheers
One of the stable open source projects that is running the webradio for our foundation that promotes new bands for years now. Buster Neece truly is a legend and a saint in tirelessly developing and offering support for Azurecast as well (and putting up with all the demanding people that come along with it.).
I echo this sentiment. For the space this project is in, it's amazing the amount of support and coverage it gets from Buster & all the maintainers. This a good example of an open-source community done very well.
The real challenge of a Cloud exit is undoing the years of gradually getting vendor locked-in. Not only do you use the services it provides, the software you might have written also uses the SDK's, is tightly coupled etc. I'm not even taking IAM into account, which is vertically integrated everywhere, in the equation.
And this isn't only on a technical level but also organizational. So i'm out of the cloud, my staff still doesn't know anything about managing dedicated servers and other solutions. I'm now fully dependent on a firm which main focus is doing migrations? How would that work?
What kind of business is your target audience here?