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Cake day: September 9th, 2026

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  • I’ve self-hosted nextcloud for a while, and never really liked the experience. Many minor details I won’t remember now, some I can remember:

    • it being very heavy and wouldn’t run too smoothly on 1GB $5 VPS
    • it felt like using a bunch of different glued together software
    • It would flick the screen white when loading other pages
    • It didn’t felt too customisable other than by editing code itself
    • It didn’t “feel nice”. Having a bunch of modular apps, none really well designed, regarding UX.

    I don’t want to shit on nextcloud too much, it’s an amazing project that covers way more stuff than my one-person project does, but tell me:

    Why are you creating a dichotomy out of it being vibecoded or mindfully crafted? There is much I still want to do, but so far that’s exactly what I’ve done so far — mindfully crafted it.




  • I am trying to create a single life-management app (calendar, tasks, bills, notes, goals, reminders etc.) too.

    FOSS, self-hostable, obviously. I’ve been developing it for 6 months as of now, and I am actively working on improving it and making it available in F-droid (and the Play Store too, for that matter)

    It’s meant exactly to help people deGoogle themselves.

    Anyways, I don’t want to be advertising it too much because I am new here and don’t want to get banned, but I think this is very much justified, whoever wants to check it out, here is the GH repo