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coolify
An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
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openrun
Deployment platform for code-first internal tools. Deploy web apps declaratively, on a single-node or on Kubernetes.
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VTCode
VT Code is an open-source coding agent with LLM-native code understanding and robust shell safety. Supports multiple LLM providers with automatic failover and efficient context management.
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easy-invoice-pdf
Free & Open-Source Invoice Generator - No Sign-Up, No Ads, Instant PDF Export, 100% In-Browser, and Fully Customizable Templates. ⭐ Star the repo if you like it
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carimbo
A 2D game engine developed in modern C++ using SDL, an Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture, miniaudio, and Box2D. It features Lua scripting and is designed for web portability via WebAssembly
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public-key-directory-specificat
Discontinued [GET https://api.github.com/repos/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]
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tokn
Token-Oriented KiCad Notation (TOKN) – Compact, human-readable, KiCad Netlists for LLM prompts. Spec, benchmarks, Python SDK.
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Hence, a higher number means a better canine alternative or higher similarity.
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I'm going back to writing code by hand
I found the exact same when I started vibe coding new features in https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine
Claude is super good as making it seem like it’s an expert in kubernetes, but then undercovering certain decisions, it’s basically optimizing to try to make things look like they work.
An example is, i wanted to develop a feature to easily fork a managed Postgres database with a k8s cluster. The thing it did was to copy the entirety of the source db to localhost, then copy it back out to the cluster, rather than just running the job within the cluster.
Now I’m pretty stressed after a 1 hour vibe coding session, having to now review and digest and think through the code that it wrote. Implementations like that are scary to me since there are real people who rely on canine.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say I’m writing everything by hand, but I now always map out how I would do something before asking ai to approach it
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)
Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years.
I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.
It’s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it.
We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine.
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Show HN: MCP for Managing Your Servers
The code for the MCP implementation is here: https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine/blob/main/app/controllers... for anyone curious.
Sticking with standard Kubernetes API patterns, the model has a pretty good intuition about how to traverse and debug applications, fetch logs, scale services, debug networking, etc.
- Show HN: An MCP server for DevOps automation
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Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
Agreed, at the moment, I have it set up on https://canine.sh which is fully open source
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I’ve been working on an open source tool that turns your Kubernetes into a Heroku like PaaS — https://canine.sh
A problem that we had at my last startup was that we got stuck between not wanting to spend too much time on devops, and getting price gouged by Heroku.
We were too big for the deploy to a VPS type options like coolify, but too small to justify hiring a full time Devops.
Eventually a few of us had to just suck it up and learn Kubernetes properly.
I was surprised there wasn’t something that “just worked” and plugged into our Kubernetes cluster, made it user friendly.
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I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
I've been developing and maintaining https://canine.sh and https://hellocsv.github.io/HelloCSV/ for some time now, and its really odd what pops up when you google these.
Neither of these projects anything requiring payment anywhere, but tons of sites pop up trying to "sell" these projects. I wouldn't even know what that means and I'm kind of tempted to drop in a credit card to see what happens. Would they auto send you a link to the public repo?
Most of it is quite lazy and haven't quite kept up with modern AI capabilities. They mostly just scrape the text I wrote, and present it with some screenshots that I created. I can imagine a future where
- really nice landing pages are generated
- the product is entirely rebranded
- marketing is automated (linkedin, google ads, etc)
and someone can develop some autonomous system that basically finds high quality, yet unknown open source projects, and redeploys it and sells it online for actual money.
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Railway Global Outage
Been building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh. Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging.
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)
I’ve been slowing building https://canine.sh for about two years now.
It’s a basically a full Heroku replacement, with a UI, CLI, etc, except running with a Kubernetes backend.
It’s fully open source. It was super annoying how delightful Heroku was, but how annoyingly locked-in and expensive it is.
I’ve been lucky to get a sponsorship from the Portainer folks so I can work on this full time!
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CanineHQ/canine is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of canine is Ruby.
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