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by mellosouls 18 days ago
Thanks for this, it looks interesting - how does it relate to your commercial service (upilote)? I ask so I can better understand what it offers.

I interpreted it as follows:

upilote are maybe a competitor to say loveable et al and as part of your marketing/community outreach you supply an open-source self-hostable (llm endpoint excepted) version of your service?

Or is this a subset of that service?

PS. Might get more traction as a ShowHN:

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upilote (mellosouls): your second reading is correct.

This is not a Lovable competitor, and it's not all of upilote.

upilote is the product: chat → agent builds → live preview.

This repo is just the infrastructure layer underneath it that we extracted and open-sourced under MIT. It handles one container per project, preview URLs, running agents, sleeping when idle, waking on request, persistence, and recovery after reboots.

For us, it simplified a lot of things. Instead of managing all that logic ourselves, it became: submit a task and stream events back.

Thank you (and thanks for contributing to OS) - best of luck with your product.