localhosting is a minimalistic form of selfhosting, and it has the potential to open up selfhosting to a broader audience.

Hi everybody, I wrote this piece and it might seem a little half-baked, but I’ll never get it going if I don’t throw it out there.

Let me know what you think, thanks and selfhosting ftw.

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My initial reaction was basically one of your headlines - “Desktop apps with extra steps”. But I guess you are right that selfhosted apps are often better than plain desktop apps. Interesting idea in general.

    A cool thing to have with this would be backups, designed in a way that makes it easy to manually back up on a USB drive. Not necessarily automated, but maybe with automatic reminders “You didn’t back up your data in X days - Backup now - Close”.