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by philip1209 1010 days ago
The Ruby on Rails stack may shine with this. Every cloud provider has hosting instructions. With the gem ecosystem, you can eliminate 3rd party SaaS dependencies that most startups rely on. That's why tools like Gitlab, Github Enterprise, etc. are so easy to self-host.

I'm most excited to buy Once software so that I can study the source code as an educational resource.

This reminds me of TailwindUI, but for SaaS.
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dewey 1010 days ago
> The Ruby on Rails stack may shine with this.

I would guess they just give you a Docker container, otherwise supporting different configurations and host machines sounds like too much of a hassle. Even some libraries shipping with the OS could influence the behaviour outside of pinned gems.

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giobox 1010 days ago
Exactly this - if a web app, it should be offered primarily as a container image for self-hosting support - the age of <insert specific program runtime here> artifacts that the customer installs and runs on an installation of said specific runtime are almost long gone. As a customer, I'd even question why I wasn't handed a container image if they tried to ship me build artifacts and a runtime of some kind.
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