scottydelta

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https://tarvis.io

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Comment · 2 days ago
I just helped a product manager friend host and run their app on a VPS.

It was a single file app.py flask app with over 10,000 lines of code. It had html and css defined as variables in that single file!

I am sure this is gonna end well.

Comment · 7 days ago
It's back online!
Comment · 7 days ago
How is the progress?
Comment · 7 days ago
It's not about cracking it. I'm just following the agents' reasoning as they work through the exploit to better understand the recently discovered PHP bugs. A great way to spend a few bucks, in my opinion :D
Comment · 7 days ago
I have two out of five AI agents that agreed to work with me on finding the flag (wallet key). Here's the progress so far:

1. GLM-5.3: Interpreted it as a public challenge and is currently trying to find the flag. https://ibb.co/zHLJhz0B

2. GLM-5.3-Flash: Also interpreted it as a public challenge and is working on cracking it. https://ibb.co/bg2DDtXq

3. GPT-6.1-Sol: Flagged it as a cybersecurity request and directed me to register for their cybersecurity program. https://ibb.co/0j83PWn9

4. DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash (via OpenRouter): Refused to execute the exploit. https://ibb.co/QvVxnM5k

5. Claude Fable-5.1 (via OpenRouter): Returned a provider-side content filter error. https://ibb.co/39q1N1NV

All sessions with different agents are running on Tarvis (https://tarvis.io), an app I'm building. Think of it as a self-hosted version of Railway, but with a built-in AI agent and cloud development environment.

The website seems to be overloaded, and both agents that agreed to work on the challenge are now unable to connect to it. HN's hug of death, I guess.

EDIT: It's back online!

Comment · 15 days ago
I am working on something similar, so here is the shameless plug: tarvis.io

Users can install any number of apps (catalog has over 750 apps) into their workspace and it comes with daily backups, backups to your own store, ssl domains and secure by design.

We are in beta and launching soon.

For each user we create a new VPS that belongs to them.

Comment · 16 days ago
With the recent change in Bitwarden's license, not sure for how long they will continue to be self hosting friendly.

I am also using Vikunja instead of trello.

Tbh in general I am fine if the self hosted app uses postgres or a container Db instead of sqlite only.

Comment · 16 days ago
I have been self hosting for over a decade and recently have seen more people in my circle doing that and I have been helping them.

At first it was hard but then i made it into a product. I am working on Tarvis.io which makes self hosting accessible to non technical users as well. It comes with installation assistant, ssl domains and backups inbuilt into it.

You can install open source apps from a catalog or drop any github repo and it installs and run it for you.

With Tarvis, I have been self hosting more since I am able to install and delete apps with one click, it makes it easy to try things.

Comment · 23 days ago
I literally built this for self hosting apps at Tarvis.io

You can drop any GitHub repo and the agent builds and deploys the app to your Tarvis workspace along with taking care of ssl domain and any other configuration and making sure the app is healthy.

Comment · 24 days ago
I developed tarvis.io which is being used by friends and family to self host notion alternative and run hermes agents. This let's them run self hosted apps as actual apps without having to worry about the server or setups.

One friend was running a gitlab runner on a laptop but moved to tarvis given how easy it is. Tarvis has a catalog of 750 apps already so I am sure you can find a few things from there to run 24/7.

IMO being able to see all the apps in a catalog and being able to easily add that app and experiment helped me figure out which apps I should be running.

Comment · 24 days ago
I am self hosting treg for development. You can setup and run treg with one click on tarvis.io
Comment · 28 days ago
I am developing tarvis.io that allows you to self host apps without managing the servers. In addition to that it also comes with cloud dev env where you can do coding and spawn dev servers and you can host same app in your tarvis workspace as a self hosted app. Tarvis takes care of security, storage, backups and ssl domains. Each app auto gets ssl domain and only you can access your apps. Give it a try!

I am running deepseek harness as self hosted app on tarvis for myself. You can run pi as self hosted harness there too by telling the agent to set it up and then access on the go from the browser.

Comment · 28 days ago
I implemented similar feature in my app https://tarvis.io

Tarvis allows people to self host apps without managing servers. Each workspace gets their wild card cert at *.weightedreply.tarvis.site.

Then when any app is installed by user in their workspace, they get subdomians under that wildcard without leaking what apps are running there. N8n app gets n8n.weightedreply.tarvis.site and hermes gets hermes.weightedreply.tarvis.site.

The proxy and auth is handled by self hosted pomerium so no dns records are published for any app subdomians under that workspace url.

I am using Google certificate manager which is free to generate and manage these wildcard certs. I know Google is not preferred but that's the only free service I could find to do this.

Comment · 1 month ago
A bit late but I am working on Tarvis.io and it does exactly that. I have been self hosting servers and managing infras since a decade and after doing the same thing over and over again, I made self hosting into a web interface where apps install with a click and work on browser. I will add this to Tarvis and a service like this can be spawned on browser with a click.

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