I’ve been wanting to give PikaPods a spin ever since we interviewed their founder. The one-sentence summary of PikaPods is: packaged apps on individual containers and you pay by the app.
I wanted to give Monica a spin. It’s a “personal CRM” where you can track relationships. You can sign up for the project’s hosting but it’s $9/month. It’s not difficult to setup and host yourself, but wants PHP 8 and I’m lazy. And I wanted to try PikaPods. And I’m lazy.
What I hadn’t counted on was the addictive nature of PikaPods! Just go to their available apps and browse. I discovered several apps I’d never heard of and they’re all just a click away.
The way PikaPods work is that they spin up the container and then provide a unique URL to you, like some-random-phrase.pikapod.net. If you wish, you can then alias this to something on your own custom domain (i.e., a CNAME record pointing from monica.example.com to some-random-phrase.pikapod.net). This is optional and you do not need your own domain to make use of PikaPods. Since ultimately it’s going to end up as a browser bookmark anyway, I haven’t bothered.
You can dial up resources as you need them, so if you’re running a forum (such as Flarum) or a blog (Ghost, Haven), database (NocoDB, Baserow), etc. you can scale things up as work and users grow.
And of course, there is one app that everyone in the community needs:
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