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I'm amazed that on a site called "Hacker News" people are giving you hassle for building your own self-hosted solution rather than handing control of your DNS over to random people, possibly for money down the line.

Well done.

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The hassle is because of the implication that is super easy to run a self hosted solution. It's a decently complex task that your average person couldn't come close to doing, and many here would still take a bit of time to grok it all.

Hey, I've updated the README and the instruction should be straight forward.

Docker compose file makes everything easily reproducible and I've included working example configs. Not sure how I can further simplify the setup but open to suggestions.

How to use Docker? No idea

Technological proficiency is very distributed too. Some people are really good at web apps but have no idea how to program in a compiled language. There is so much out there and its not really feasible for everyone to know about everything.

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