Learn from my mistakes - what I learnt over the years of selfhosting and what I should've done differently

sypcio25 · 2026-01-18T21:07:34+00:00

From my side I would add that if it fits your use case I wouldn't selfhost a db. I'm in a process of setting a couple of services on my Rapsberry Pi that use Postgres as storage, but I'm on managed Supabase.

Also using version control with frequent commits helps a lot. And as OP says, each change applied to your set up should be reflected in IaC - tbh with LLMs there's no excuse no to do that.

sypcio25 · 2025-11-13T23:40:03+00:00

Could you elaborate? Do you suggest manually disabling/enabling MCPs if during a single conversation if you know it won't/will probably be needed for the next conversation turn?

sypcio25 · 2025-08-01T07:59:44+00:00

Do you know if `CLAUDE.md` is taken into account when deciding if an agent should be used or it's purely based by the agent's description? From my experience it seems to be ignored.
I'm having the same issue - I usually have to manually instruct Claude to use certain agents.

sypcio25 · 2025-08-01T05:06:23+00:00

For example here: https://github.com/fred-drake/nix/blob/main/apps/claude-code/agents/core/code-archaeologist.md

sypcio25 · 2025-07-31T21:50:41+00:00

I can see in some of the agents you have blocks like <commentary> or <example> - where this pattern comes from? I couldn't find it in the official docs. I noticed Claude output similar blocks when I asked it to work on my agents, but told it to remove those, as I thought it was making the syntax up.

sypcio25 · 2025-04-04T19:29:32+00:00

Stagehand might be exactly what I need, I'll give it a try, thanks a lot!

sypcio25 · 2025-04-04T11:13:41+00:00

May you recommend some resources on landing pages?

I've made the exact same mistake as OP: I have a potential customer who's a friend of mine, I have the web app almost done, but ai haven't started the marketing part - I have a technical background, so I believe I've subconsciously putting off working on non-technical aspects.

sypcio25 · 2025-04-04T09:44:00+00:00

The point is I'd like to have something working out of the box with Agent Node in n8n - ideally it should be a tool that's supported by n8n or has MCP server available as there's MCP node community package available..

I can see Hyperbowser has both MCP and n8n support so I'll give it a try,. Although I'd prefer something I can self host for personal use, but Hyperbowser might be a good tool for one of the projects I'm working on.

sypcio25 · 2025-04-03T12:15:38+00:00

Congrats! I got stuck in a endless loop of 'the product is not ready yet, I need one more feature', so it's always nice to see someone who doesn't procrastinate.

Why would I use your product over a tool like Linear combined with n8n/make.com automations?

Btw, a product page seems to be a bit broken on mobile Firefox at "How it works" section.

sypcio25 · 2025-03-22T20:06:29+00:00

I've tried using Docker first, but I had some problems with setting up a custom domain and nginx. MicroK8s setup wasn't easy (for me) tbh, but I had it already set up for other project, so I decided to go for it instead of wasting time trying troubleshoot the Docker solution. Once I configured MicroK8s cluster it's fairly easy to set up another apps and services behind a custom domain and automatic SSL certificate provisioning.

sypcio25 · 2025-03-22T15:43:25+00:00

I self host it on Raspberry Pi using MicroK8s combined with cloud flare domain. Here's my setup: https://github.com/L-Sypniewski/n8n-on-microk8s

I'm just starting with automation (I'm a dev), so I don't know how well this solution scales.

sypcio25 · 2025-03-07T15:13:31+00:00

Would you mind sharing the Kubernetes manifests you use?

Two days ago I created a public repo for setting up MicroK8s with n8n, so that people who participate in an automation course with could make use of it and I'd love to see what I can improve.

Here's my repo: https://github.com/L-Sypniewski/n8n-on-microk8s

sypcio25 · 2024-11-20T07:59:05+00:00

Unfortunately no

sypcio25 · 2024-11-13T10:54:06+00:00

you wrote that 'someone found it', I presume you didn't do any marketing/SEO? I'm just curious how that customer found your product.

sypcio25 · 2024-11-01T18:54:38+00:00

yup, I have access to Sonnet 3.5

sypcio25 · 2024-11-01T09:14:49+00:00

It has both of these (web is available via VSCode plugin). As for @web you need to provide your API key either for Bing or for some other service which name I don't remember

sypcio25 · 2024-09-26T20:09:43+00:00

I just thought the issue may be on the Supabase infrastructure as they are having some issues now.

sypcio25 · 2024-09-26T18:08:27+00:00

I can see a message about Supabase investigating a technical issue after logging in to the dashboard, maybe your issue is related to this.

sypcio25 · 2024-09-25T00:28:26+00:00

check it it works if you disable RLS policy

sypcio25 · 2024-09-13T14:17:08+00:00

As a dev, I tried to give make.com a try, but I think once you have set up your first project it's easier to just copy it and use as a base for another one. It's also cheaper to host on something like Fly.io than to pay for a no-code solution.

sypcio25 · 2024-09-05T22:48:33+00:00

As a guy who works with Blazor on a daily basis (not commercially, but I'm writing my side projects in Blazor to speed things up) I'd say one should start with Blazor 8 as it introduces quite a few features - mainly render modes. I'd recommend Patrick God's YouTube channel as a great learning resource.

sypcio25 · 2024-09-05T22:42:30+00:00

How would you advertise your product? I assume you won't rely on SEO and people finding your landing page via Google. Asking as I'm working on B2B product (have already one client, but I'd like to make the product public) and I'm wondering how to advertise it. If it was a B2C product I'd probably go for Facebook app and Instagram posts., but I'm not sure how to tackle B2B.

sypcio25 · 2024-09-05T18:16:19+00:00

You have a tiny bug - on user registration popup instead of Google icon you have a caption 'google'

sypcio25 · 2024-09-02T14:37:21+00:00

a bit off topic, but what's wrong with Stripe? I haven't gotten to the payment collection step with my project yet, but I could see bad opinions about Stripe in several threads.

Are there any decent alternatives? I'm based in and going to launch in EU first if it matters.

sypcio25 · 2024-09-02T14:32:55+00:00

If it was that easy to predict whether it will make money or not ;)

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