The problem I see is that git commit meaaages are not as flexible at storing context information as files. Or easier to retrieve.
We do have --grep to search them but it's definitely not as poweful as all the tools we have to handle files at the OS level.
As verbose as storing specs in files is, I also prefer it
If you need to just offer free access to your open source repo, gitea is a nice alternative and super easy to self host.
Github also has the community, which you lose, true, but it depends on what matters more to you.
I can help you setup gitea really fast if you're interested
I think there is an explosion of new apps, the problem is still distribution in marketing.
If I develop a new vibe coded app, it will still take some time for it to be known. And also get good.
Also, what another commenter said that most of new apps are in-house, fully agree with that.
Valid points. But I see self-hosting even as renting a VPS from someone and running the service there. Which solves most of the dev ops problems that I dont wanna bother with.
Maybe it's not "actual" self-hosting, but concenient enough to use it
The biggest complaint has always been how hard it is to self-host it, but that's not true anymore.
If you have a good underlying system that handles all the boring stuff, you can actually have a pretty good experience.
I'm biased because I'm building an OS for this, and it makes spinning up imich so easy.
That's true. But I think it's the same case as a bad actor owning a domain for himself. They still need to do some policing so it doesn't pull down the whole TLD
I actually think this is a really good concept.
There is no perfect solution for what they're trying to do, but I think they have most of the things covered.
Offering one free per person is nice, it can be tricky to enforce but I think doable. Regarding privacy, even right now ICANN rules require a real name and address for the domain.
This project comes at the right time when because I see a lot of interest growing towards self-hosting.
I am biased though, I've been working on on OS for self-hosting , fully open source, Debian based, no restrictions
https://github.com/malmoos/malmo
This is a push by one individual, or maybe a small group. I don't think we should generalize this to the whole European commission, or the whole EU.
Hopefully and most likely it will be shut down if put up for a vote.
Even if you go with an open source AI model, it will still make a lot more financial sense to pay a provider then actually invest in the hardware to self-host it.
It's definitely worth investing in self-hosting the agent infrastructure around the model though: all the documents, knowledge base, all the connectors, the agent itself to run on your hardware
I went over their website in the description and I'm still finding it hard to understand how they work.
Do contributors fund the pool that then pays for API cost of using a model?
I don't think I share your experience.
I've been using open claw for the past 3 months and it has some quirks but it works pretty well.
The web UI is not the nicest but it gets the job done and you rarely interact with it through that interface. You use telegram, WhatsApp, discord, etc.
The CLI install flow is one of the best I've seen. It really takes you through every single step to set everything up.
I've helped organized the Openclaw events in Dublin where we usually have 80 to 100 people come and we've seen great success with the install flow. Especially for non-technical people.
The biggest issue was with Windows and WSL but other than that no major problems. It's not perfect but it works pretty well.
https://github.com/malmoos/malmo