[bgdam]

I have come to believe that in the near future, software development is going to become a common skill, like driving. I myself have been vibe coding so many tiny apps/scripts/cron jobs that resolve tiny inconveniences in my life and the biggest pain point for me right now is making these available to my multiple devices over the internet.

To resolve this, I am currently fleshing out the idea for a "shared hosting" for vibe coded programs - something like a cross between an old school LAMP stack shared host and a parse like library for capabilities like push notifications.

It's all very half baked in my head at the moment - with the biggest problem being a safe way to deploy remote code without pawning the server, but this is a problem shared hosts have dealt with and I am sure I will eventually figure out a way.

The end goal is to be able to have people tell their AI agent of choice to "make their app deployable" on our platform - and the agent will adapt it to our library methods and deploy automatically. Once done folks will be able to access their programs from any internet connected device.

[mittermayr]

just wanted to give you another perspective to consider: I teach a class where they're designing websites and small apps with ChatGPT, but we're failing to host this. I built a simply copy/paste HTML renderer, so they can at least share and try it outside of ChatGPT, but for our final project, I felt like it would've been nice if something like all those JS playgrounds would exist, but much, much simpler. I upload an HTML and it becomes accessible publicly so students can share their projects. The domain never matters, any subdomain is fine, but it needs to be without an account and that makes it incredibly hard to host (spam). Why without an account? Our onboarding of the same class (30 students or so) to Figma took us two full days, it was a disaster. Nobody wants to go through that again. That said, university budgets are nearly untouchable, so I'm not sure if and/or where there's reason enough to do this other than purely academical.