Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host. (homelabinator.com)
from iambeingheldhostage@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 15:51
https://lemmy.ml/post/44814855

Hello Lemmy! Long time lurker, first time poster here.

Myself and a few friends love self-hosting, but believe that it’s hard to get started. So we created what we believe to be the easiest gateway to homelabbing, and we called it Homelabinator!

To celebrate our launch, we are running a giveaway! Submit a screenshot of a subscription you have canceled to enter into a giveaway for a free domain of your choice!

Check it out here: homelabinator.com

#selfhosted

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frongt@lemmy.zip on 21 Mar 15:56 next collapse

For people asking “ok but what is it”:

Built on the shoulders of the giants that are NixOS and K3s, Homelabinator is an opinionated customization of NixOS

Also you should test your site on mobile. It’s half broken for me.

iambeingheldhostage@lemmy.ml on 21 Mar 16:44 next collapse

Thanks for the heads up on mobile! We agree, certainly everything needs more work, but full disclosure, we are all full time students and working on this project on the side. :)

iamthetot@piefed.ca on 21 Mar 18:27 collapse

Oof, yeah, it is not mobile friendly.

warmaster@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 16:39 next collapse

Looks vibe coded AF, is it ?

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 21 Mar 16:53 collapse

Which part of the code?

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 16:58 collapse

…aaaaaand away we go! qwerty!

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 16:42 next collapse

OP, I took a cursory run through of the site. Looks good. Could really have potential for those just dipping their toes in the self hosting pool. I haven’t tested the ISO created tho. One thing, Tailscale client id & secret. I’m not sure I would want to disclose that on an unknown website, because of privacy issues. I understand why you included it, but it seems like an brief explanation as to how to do that manually, once the ISO is deployed, for those who might have some of the same reservations. Perhaps I overlooked that if it exists. Otherwise it looks like it would be a great introductory to self hosting.

Onward and upward.

ETA: I like the name too.

django@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Mar 16:46 next collapse

How is it easier than yunohost?

perishthethought@piefed.social on 21 Mar 17:34 next collapse

Great idea, really good name.

I looked at the back end source.

  1. Do I understand correctly that when I run your app in my PC, the ISO is built on your server and then I download it?

  2. Why does app.py submit an ip address to a google form?

https://github.com/homelabinator/homelabinator-backend/blob/main/api/app.py

You should know, stuff like that is going keep a lot of self hosters from recommending this.

iambeingheldhostage@lemmy.ml on 21 Mar 18:24 collapse

  1. That is correct! We looked at different options on how to build the ISO (mkisofs is really cool but doesn’t play nice with the NixOS installer image), and ultimately went with building it on a Nix server.
  2. Apologies for that, that was a leftover from when we were trying to gauge how many people were downloading ISOs when we showcased it to a club on campus yesterday. That has now been removed.
perishthethought@piefed.social on 21 Mar 19:59 collapse

Awesome, thanks for the answers

eleijeep@piefed.social on 21 Mar 18:28 next collapse

Long time lurker

Joined: a week ago

melfie@lemy.lol on 21 Mar 18:37 next collapse

No account is needed to read Lemmy. I lurked a long time before creating an account myself.

Micromot@piefed.social on 21 Mar 18:41 collapse

You can lurk without an account tho, doesn’t mean they are credible or not

Eirikr70@jlai.lu on 21 Mar 18:44 collapse

I’m not fond of what makes it easier to set up a homelab. Because it might give the impression that you can run it with very little skills. And that opens the door to making your setup a netbot.