pipes VS piku

https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes can extract feeds from pages. Pattern recognizer logic when trying the UI is a bit simple, but you can also write selectors on your own. It could work for you.

I'm not sure I understand the need, but take a look at https://pipes.digital/

Merging feeds is one of the main use cases of my site pipes. It might be one of the site you stumbled upon and dismissed, but there is an AGPL licensed version you can self-host at https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes.

Great writeup, especially with all the workflow canvas screenshots. Makes me want to try out Node-RED.

From a few weeks ago on HN:

https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes

“pipes.digital is a spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes, a graphical interface to get data from the web and to manipulate it by connecting block”

These look like great tools.

I think calling these low-code / no-code frameworks is however quite misleading though, because there is actually code, it’s just inside the component! Code still has to be written.

One thing that these low-code / no-code frameworks do well is provide a structure that you can easily show visually.

This is particularity useful when you have to work with clients that aren’t that technical. It makes creating specifications much easier, which can be reviewed and revised before embarking on a big development effort.

I should add one to https://piku.github.io (spoiler - this doesn't use Docker at all)

I like it. I wrote Piku (https://github.com/piku/piku) with much the same interest in fixing some of my pains, so I get where you're coming from with this. Will drop it into one of my current projects to build ESP32 binaries :)

I never had any serious issue with SD cards since the Pi 2B (and I've kept Pis running for years).

Anyway, for those wanting to deploy more generic apps, that is why I initially wrote https://github.com/piku/piku - you still have to flash the OS (and rpi-imager does that with sane defaults these days), but once you're done you have Heroku-like deployments for any language runtime you install on the Pi.

I also have https://github.com/rcarmo/ground-init, a cloud-init like shim that simplifies setting up machines (I'm a big fan of cloud-init, but since Raspbian doesn't support it and Ubuntu on ARM requires some fiddling to make it work I decided it wasn't too hard to roll my own).

(I probably should look into glueing that into rpi-imager, but there is are only so many hours in the day...)

I automated that away a long time ago: https://github.com/piku/piku/blob/master/piku.py#L814

Piku https://github.com/piku/piku

So, stupid question: why couldn't I just use the 'baremetal' OS provided by Hetzner, install Postgres, Redis & node, create a separate db for each app, and run each app with https://github.com/piku/piku on a different port? For backups, I'll setup crontab to dump dbs locally and to S3.

piku?