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A hosted self-hosted note taking tool - recursion error. In all seriousness, there is a version of the internet I imagined where instead of subscription SaaS, all apps/tools were standalone pieces of software that you could choose to deploy wherever you wanted. Companies would provide 1-click methods to self-host on whichever cloud provider you desire.

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Heroku is getting a lot of backlash lately but they have the "Deploy to Heroku" button that a lot of open source projects seem to have integraded well. I used it a couple of times and it worked really well. I see it sometimes in READMEs on GitHub repos.

If this could become a standard adopted by other cloud providers we could have the internet you imagined.

Saw a lot of DigitalOcean ones too.

I mean, that kind of is what we're talking about here -- at any time you can switch between saving your stuff locally vs. self hosting with the Node server vs. a hosted option like this.

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