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I'm really excited for https://www.forem.com/ - when I get some free time I plan on making it easier to setup for beginners. PHPBB was "self-hosted" - the old world of the internet was entirely "self-hosted". We can return again, to the old internet, anew. Everything old is new again!

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Now if we can only convince VCs that 'web3' really means 'we host the servers again' and not that other nonsense.

Hah I work on this every single day. I'm building tiny web-servers for consumers over at https://pibox.io - we like to say were "distributing the web; no blockchain required". Customers love the product, but VCs hate it xD

Good on you for taking the road less traveled! I don't have the guts to pursue 'real' entrepreneurship like yourself, but I appreciate those who do!

I would only say that sooner is better than later. During this startup I got married and had a child - and I don’t come from money or have a successful exit before - so chances are this is my one and only shot before I have to earn more money for my family.

Fear is a funny thing. Trick is to have it chase you down the path, instead of standing in your way.

This is awesome. Seeing the mention of an App Store made me think of Umbrel [1] which is still in alpha but is a very approachable GUI for managing services running on your Raspberry.

[1]: https://umbrel.com/

Nice! We consider Umbrel a bit of a sister company :) They are more crypto focused, and we're more self-hosting focused, but we overlap in many ways. Umbrel software runs great on our hardware!

This is awesome! Your hardware looks fantastic, so pleased to see it had a Noctua fan. This is typically the kind of thing hardware manufacturers would try to save money on. Will definitely consider and spread the word about PiBox!

Thank you!! We splurged on the fan for sure - but it runs more or less silent and I love hearing the fan spin up and down when it boots - makes it feel like a proper server even though it's about the footprint of an iPhone :)

Flarum is worth checking too.

Came here to say this Discourse [1] seems to be everywhere but I like Flarum [2] a lot, seems to be a little bit closer to the phpBB spirit. Both are OSS and self-hostable.

[1]: https://meta.discourse.org/

[2]: https://discuss.flarum.org/

That thing looks amazing! Nice UI. Yeah deploying on DigitalOcean or something similar would be real nice. RoR apps can be "prohibitive" when it comes to hosting environment. 99% of the hosting offers are PHP+Apache stack.

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