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> I save thousands of dollars by using Huginn.

Does that take into account the overhead of operating Huginn?

Yes, and it's running thousands of requests and posts / minute on AWS. But you don't even need to put it in the cloud, it runs perfectly at home on an old box running Ubuntu.

That's awesome that it's working so well for you :)

You can deploy it as a docker image in a few minutes. If you already run a homelab of any sort (which most of HN does), it's basically free.

> If you already run a homelab of any sort (which most of HN does)

You sure about that? I feel like there are plenty of folks on here whose only computer is a MacBook

I have one box acting as a router, NAS, DVB-T receiver, NAS and the other box as HTPC. Both are based on desktop motherboards and I also run Kubernetes (kubeadm) on them, with more CPU-intensive tasks assigned to non-HTPC so it doesn't interrupt movie playback. But yes, I think it is not common, it takes time to set up and maintain.

I've run Huginn on a MacBook.

It works fine, along with a whole bunch of other stuff in Docker.

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