App catalog looks good, but they miss Home Assistant which is a major inconvenience

Looks really interesting! I'd like to see immich in the available apps. For me the Auth part is not super important. But has it one-click updates?

Cloudron does something very similar (I'm a user): https://www.cloudron.io/

Interesting project! I've found self hosting a lot more approachable with the advent of AI to help with inevitable errors. I run every new app in its own service account and as a rootless podman quadlet. There are three main difficulties that I come up against with every app. First is backups, or more accurately restoring data. My understanding is that just taking a snapshot doesn't always give you a working restore point because an app could be mid-database migration or something like that. Second is updates, and third is accessibility outside the network. I am slowly working on my own solutions, interested to know how you tackle those though?

> making self-hosting accessible to everyone

This happens with making many small to medium level resource hungary apps, for personal usage, run on one VPS which is not a heady duty machine costing heavy duty money. I have tried this on similar machines 2GB RAM and 1-2 VCPU and after 2-3 apps it starts swaying like a drunkard in slow motion even in that SSH session. But at least this one seems to be better than something like PikaPods, in combo pricing regard (I am not saying one is generally better over the other), where the pricing is rather per app.

>At the core, it's just an Ubuntu machine with a web server that hosts a dashboard and routes HTTP(s) requests to containerized apps.

So no fail over/redundancy? I think at minimum it should be two machines, so one can break. That is one of the important features of cloud applications as far as I'm concerned.

You don't have to deal with the problem of a single computer breaking.

  > So no fail over/redundancy? I think at minimum it should be two machines, so one can break.

> Rent a box from whoever you like, and turn it into your own personal cloud.

Yeah, that’s not what cloud computing is.

Basically what we were already doing before Cloud took over distributed computing and grid computing as industry terms, Open Stack and a few others.

I'm confused, isn't a self-hosted cloud something like openstack or kubernetes?

i dont think i understand the idea of cloud in a bottle - it seems like overthinking to me