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by vineyardmike 1425 days ago
There are literally hundreds of distributed networked KV stores used by software developers for all sorts of projects. Showing how to store “hello world” seems like a pretty good intro.

Why can’t people see a use case for this? It maybe doesn’t compare as unique against the hundred other KV stores but it’s also a toy project and a KV store seems to have an obvious use?

Personal, I’m going to try this out since I was actually looking for a similar KV store. Only because I was looking and HN presented it to me tbh.

My use case is that I have a few Raspberry Pis at home (aka low powered) that I wanted to have a distributed config on. I wanted something easy to manipulate with a command line that was lightweight (eg not redis or consul or a password manager). Since it’s for LAN use (or actual Tailscale) the security wasn’t really important.