I've been playing with some new and old technologies:
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Evolu local-first: mobile PWA Streaks and Pocket replacement LocalMark
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Quilibrium provable compute: Quorum is more private than Signal, but alive like Discord. I host an open Space.
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x402 permissionless payments
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LobeChat as private as you want it to be
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scale-to-zero IaaS: Hono on Cloudflare Workers; Neon Postgres; Momento Pelikan Cache; Upstash Redis; Tailscale; Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Tigris; Cloudflare AI
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$5-is-all-you-need-until-you-need-more-and-then-we-gotchu PaaS: Bun Elysia on Render; S3 on Backblaze B2; micro VPS via DO, Vultr, Contabo; fly.io painless vertical + horizontal scaling; DeepSeek/Mistral/Phi embedded/edge AI; Ente Photos
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$20-can-change-your-life AI: Cursor. I believe self-hosted, private AI is a Sisyphean challenge and a dead end. Serverless inference, via Runpod et al, has disappointed so far YMMV but is still early IMHO
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Obsidian Markdown notes with e...
