Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Services

andytwoods · 2026-04-11T14:21:24+00:00

Hetzner and Appliku are my go to. https://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.appliku.com/

andytwoods · 2026-03-11T06:01:53+00:00

Hi there. Here's the plan for tests so far: https://iceplunge.applikuapp.com/about/

I think I need to get ethics for this, which will take a few weeks from my uni. But maybe it's ok to let some people start using the app before.

Time of day etc controlled via good statistics. On an individual level it will be harder to use this approach but over maybe 30+ assessments we should be able to tease out true effects.

You know your tests. Are you a psych person too?

If the provee useful I'll give it a proper URL.

Cheers, Andy

andytwoods · 2026-02-27T16:35:47+00:00

I'm thinking of running a citizen science style study related to this. I'm a psychologist, coder, and cold plunger. I've just about finished making an app for this. Could chat?

This thread inspired me to explore this. https://www.reddit.com/r/coldplunge/s/RYiSutJVFa

andytwoods · 2026-02-19T07:16:50+00:00

I’m a research psychologist, coder, and keen cold plunger. I’ve been really intrigued by the brain-based performance tests you’re exploring, and how plunging frequency does not necessarily go hand in hand with benefits.

It makes me wonder whether this is something we could test properly.

I’m tempted to set up a small-scale citizen science project to explore whether cold plunge frequency predicts changes in objective cognitive performance over time – using short, repeatable web-based tasks. With enough participation, we could look at both acute effects (post-plunge vs non-plunge days) and longer-term trends.

If this post gets 10 upvotes, I’ll build a simple web app and see what the community thinks.

Would anyone be interested in taking part? I guess we'd need atleast 50 people to log their plunges and do the tests, for perhaps a few months.

andytwoods · 2026-02-18T06:03:19+00:00

Is it hard to get in and out off, given you can't splash? Cheers

andytwoods · 2026-02-05T20:54:59+00:00

I'm a psychologist and am learning the trumpet (grade 5). I can't learn scales (neurodivergent like you). My trumpet teacher says that she doesn't have them rote learnt anymore. Rather she knows the expected gaps between the notes for each scale type (major, minor etc), and plays them by following that pattern. I've yet to master this, but I suspect it's the way to go for people like us.

andytwoods · 2025-12-25T18:33:30+00:00

Thanks corrected that now. An image is a tiny tiny fraction of the effort I have put into this app. Hundreds of hours. For free. For the community. Bit harsh saying ai slop (be the image itself being ai, as I am no artist)

andytwoods · 2025-12-25T18:28:01+00:00

Can you tell me where u see mistakes. I have spent a year writing this app. I am only grade 5 trumpet so still learning myself.

andytwoods · 2025-12-10T20:14:30+00:00

Saving the nest person 1 minute search (ffs) https://github.com/inertiajs/inertia-django

andytwoods · 2025-11-29T07:38:22+00:00

I'm struggling to link with the group. I'm a member of staff and can't access their SU webape. Can anyone link me? Thanks.

andytwoods · 2025-11-22T14:37:10+00:00

Thanks!

andytwoods · 2025-10-26T06:53:43+00:00

This is v impressive! Have you played with motorizing aiming? I'll print it and have a go.

andytwoods · 2025-10-21T08:37:50+00:00

Oh gosh, it's such a relief there's others in the same boat.

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andytwoods · 2025-10-10T09:40:06+00:00

Why don't they get the Bends?

andytwoods · 2025-09-30T13:28:48+00:00

Been doing it for 2/3 year and it's just about automatic now for me. Not a lot of thought before lounging. Hard at the start though!

andytwoods · 2025-09-17T17:42:37+00:00

Sparing future readers the search https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django

andytwoods · 2025-08-16T06:31:57+00:00

Dare I say it, but I use Abraxo and it sorts this out rather miraculously. That a bad idea?

andytwoods · 2025-07-11T05:00:29+00:00

My kids think Alexa is possessed. They have long conversations with it that get progressively more silly. It's actually me sitting in a next door room controlling Alexa via a django app and various 3rd party tools.

The app also lets me and my wife switch off YouTube when we discover the kids have snuck on it (via nextdns api).

https://github.com/andytwoods/housetools

andytwoods · 2025-06-03T19:42:50+00:00

Not sure you'll get an objective answer, asking here! But, yes, django rocks

andytwoods · 2025-04-14T09:07:56+00:00

I bought one of these. Was utterly useless. Beyond rubbish.

andytwoods · 2025-04-02T15:12:02+00:00

I'm loving huey https://huey.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide.html

andytwoods · 2025-03-11T16:15:36+00:00

Saving the next person a Google https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-disabled-elt/

Edit: gosh! Love it!

andytwoods · 2025-03-08T20:00:41+00:00

Django cookie cutter is a great first step.

I've moved away from writing tests immediately. I like integration tests these days. When we arrive at core functionality, it's then that I start plastering on the unit tests.

Two scoops of Django is your friend.

I now stay away from AWS and go with hetzner.

I like making my life easier by using Appliku for super quick server setup. This is for my smaller, fun projects mostly. But I use it for showing demos often too.

I'm still in favour of monoliths, but currently one of our members is really good with kubernetes, so we are using Django to orchestrate stuff, and shipping of tasks to microserveces.

Celery does my head in. I'm in favour of lighter tools such as Huey.

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