It's sad that open source / open-internet projects always have a clunky design. Here, the main screenshot, at the top, uses a monospaced System font. You might as well display a terminal and it's a wrap. To appeal to broader audiences:

- You both need to trigger the potential OSS contributors, with references to Debian, Ubuntu maybe, and appeal to big donors, which is another topic entirely,

- And ALSO have a design that triggers the broader audiences and therefore, very "turnkey", very packaged, very "Comment like and subscribe", one-click install on your NAS, etc. Privacy is then a characteristic but services are the real features.

the hardware is problem we all been struggling with

Meh. Maybe I'm a grinch, but I don't see this as easier. I have a little NUC running Ubuntu. Putting services on it is easy: PiHole, OwnCloud, Wireguard, etc.

systemd is all you need

Cloudron?

> coolify: hosts containerized apps, but every app is an island with its own login and little integration with the host or other apps.

That’s not an issue tho, I want each application to be a separate login, so I can have one pointed to a different subdomain or domain not all in one login and location.

> nextcloud: slow and unreliable, and more enterprise-targeted now

What a load of bull.

I've been interested in something like this for awhile. Cloud or self hosting in-a-box. Should be simple for layman.

> Apps are (rootless, hardened) containers, so it can run existing software with minimal changes - and in a reasonably secure sandbox.

WTF? I’m selling you a car with no brakes but it slows down reasonably fast?