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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
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TLDR: Cloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX.
Key facts
- Software served from the cloud (think Google Docs vs Microsoft Word) delivers a great experience
- no install, accessible on all your devices, immediate sharing/collaboration
- They're launching now after building and testing it privately for 6+ months, now that the core platform is mostly complete and stable
- TLDR: Cloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX
- In the pre-cloud days, open source worked
- authors distributed their software, and everyone "hosted" it for themselves (i.e. ran it on their own PC)
Summary
The reporter is frustrated with the state of the digital world. Software served from the cloud (think Google Docs vs Microsoft Word) delivers a great experience - no install, accessible on all your devices, immediate sharing/collaboration. In the pre-cloud days, open source worked - authors distributed their software, and everyone "hosted" it for themselves (i.e. ran it on their own PC). Self-hosting exists already, but it's niche and unapproachable. Sandstorm.io: close in spirit ( their article from 2014 makes the same argument the reporter is making here), but unfortunately long abandoned. Nextcloud: slow and unreliable, and more enterprise-targeted now.