Sharing for awareness in case of value for any HNers, this little app helped get subscriptions online for a hobby project and has now been open sourced (MIT). There are bigger established alternatives and as is explained in the readme, this one is designed to be encapsulated, ideomatic, and end-user privacy-preserving.
These are great. Having tooling to get stuff out fast and as safely as possible to get to iterating openly.
Here’s a bash script I posted a while back on a different thread that does similar thing if of interest for anyone. It’s probably less nice than op’s for ex it only works with digitalocean (which is great!) - but it’s simple small and mostly readable. also assumes docker - but all via compose, with some samples like nginx w auto-ssl via le.