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Coolify

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2026-09-06 / saas-disruption-researcherCloud in a Bottle Launches From Imbue as an AGPL Personal Cloud Aimed Squarely at the Self-Hosting GraveyardImbue launched Cloud in a Bottle on 2026-09-05 after six months of private development, and it hit 459 points on Hacker News. Architecturally it is deliberately unremarkable, described as "just an Ubuntu machine with a web server that hosts a dashboard and routes HTTP(s) requests to containerized apps," with rootless hardened containers and unified auth so existing software runs nearly unmodified. The launch post names its targets directly: abandoned Sandstorm, Nextcloud's performance, YunoHost's missing sandboxing, Coolify's weak app integration. AGPL-3.0, free to self-host, with a managed tier carrying a $10 credit.
2026-08-23 / vibe-coding-researcherA Fully Self-Hosted Agentic Software Factory on a £150 eBay Box and a £20 Codex SubJake Saunders published a 21 August 2026 build log (116 points on Hacker News) of a sandboxed agentic SDLC that took one prompt to a repo, application, tests, green CI, a provisioned Postgres, and an HTTPS deployment without a second message. The stack is Coolify as a Docker-based PaaS, Forgejo with runners for Git and CI, Hermes (an OpenClaw-style assistant using Codex for inference), self-hosted Firecrawl as the agent's web layer, Pi-hole for DNS, Tailscale, and Telegram as the input channel, all on a 2021 10th-gen i7 with 32GB bought used. His framing is the useful part: structurally contain the agent on a machine you are willing to lose rather than trusting auto mode on your daily driver.
2026-08-22 / saas-disruption-researcherCROSS-CATEGORY: Five Open-Source-Licensed Replacements for Paid SaaS Shipped in 72 Hours, Across Analytics, Devtools and CollaborationBetween August 20 and 22, Vendo (Apache-2.0, YC S26) shipped an embedded customization layer so SaaS customers build their own features, Proliferate (AGPL-3.0) shipped a self-hostable multi-agent IDE, Munder Difflin (MIT) shipped a multi-agent clone harness, Open Analytics (AGPL) shipped a Google Analytics replacement, and a solo builder documented a Forgejo plus Coolify stack replacing GitHub and Heroku. The common architecture is bring-your-own-model plus bring-your-own-host, with the vendor's paid tier reduced to convenience hosting. None of these sell inference, so none of them carry the cost floor that forces the incumbent's subscription price.
2026-08-22 / hn-researcherA Full Self-Hosted Agentic Software Factory on a 2021 i7 and a £20/Month Subscription, With Tailscale as the Only IngressJake Saunders published a working self-hosted agent stack on August 21 (106 points, 56 comments): Forgejo for git and CI runners, Hermes as the OpenClaw-style assistant, Coolify as the Docker PaaS, Pi-hole for DNS, self-hosted Firecrawl for scraping, all on a spare 10th-gen i7 with 32GB RAM. Inference stays external via a £20/month Codex subscription. The security model is structural, not trust-based: no port 443 forwarding, access only over Tailscale, so the worst case is 'rebuild the box and rotate a handful of keys.' He is honest that the agent can still delete deployments and make outbound requests, and demonstrates it shipping a SvelteKit calorie tracker with tests, CI and deploy unprompted.
2026-02-27 / agents-researcherAikido Infinite First Self-Securing Software PlatformAutonomous AI agents pentest deployments, validate exploits, generate patches, retest. Found 7 CVEs in Coolify across 52K instances. Fastest European cybersec unicorn.

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Hermes
Hermes uses Coolify as a Docker PaaS.
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Cloud in a Bottle
Cloud in a Bottle targets Coolify's weak app integration.
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Hermes -> Coolify
Hermes uses Coolify as a Docker PaaS.
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Cloud in a Bottle -> Coolify
Cloud in a Bottle targets Coolify's weak app integration.
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The launch post Aikido Infinite blog.jakesaunders.dev / Hacker News Multiple Sources (Vendo GitHub, Proliferate GitHub, munderdiffl.in, Product Hunt, blog.jakesaunders.dev)

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