AI
Why Private AI Is the Biggest Self-Hosting Trend of 2025 Something interesting happened this year. While everyone was obsessing over ChatGPT subscriptions and Claude API bills, a quiet revolution was brewing in home offices and server rooms around the world. People started running their own AI. Not toy projects. Not
Self-Hosted
Something shifted in 2024. I started noticing it in Reddit threads, then in Hacker News discussions, and eventually in conversations with CTOs and IT managers: people are tired of SaaS. Not all SaaS, mind you. But there's a growing frustration with the subscription treadmill, the endless price hikes,
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N8N Sub-Workflows: Build Reusable Automation Components You're building N8N automations and copying the same 15-node sequence across every workflow. Authentication logic here, error handling there, notification patterns everywhere. By workflow #10, you've got technical debt scattered across dozens of duplicated nodes. One bug means updating 50
Grafana
Look, I'm going to be real with you. If you're not monitoring your infrastructure, you're basically flying blind. And when something breaks at 3am (it will), you'll wish you had set this up months ago. The good news? Getting production-grade monitoring running
PostgreSQL
Your database is slow. Queries that took milliseconds last month now take seconds. Users are complaining. Your monitoring dashboard shows query times creeping up, connection pools maxing out, and CPU spiking during peak hours. You've thrown more RAM at it, upgraded the server—nothing helps. PostgreSQL can handle
GitLab
You've probably been there. A critical bug ships to production at 3am. The on-call engineer traces it back to a merge request that went straight to main—no review, no second pair of eyes, just one developer hitting "Merge" and hoping for the best. That'
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I Ditched Google Workspace and Saved My Company $9,000 (Here's How) Look, I'm not going to sugarcoat this: I spent three years paying Google $300/month for Workspace before I finally did the math. That's $10,800 down the drain for a 25-person
OpenWebUI
OpenWebUI Custom Prompts: Create Reusable Templates for Common Tasks You've just finished your tenth code review of the day, and you're typing the same instructions into your AI assistant again: "Review this code for security vulnerabilities, check for best practices, suggest performance improvements..." The
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Baserow: Self-Hosted Airtable Alternative with No Vendor Lock-In The Problem: Airtable's Pricing Keeps Climbing Your Airtable bill just jumped from $20/user/month to $45/user/month for Pro, and your team of 15 is now costing you $8,100 annually—just to organize data in spreadsheets. Every
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Chatwoot: Self-Hosted Customer Support That Replaces Intercom The Problem: Customer Support Tools Are Bleeding Your Budget Your Intercom bill just hit $799/month, and you're not even at full capacity yet. Every new support agent adds $50-100/month, every additional feature tier costs more, and you're
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N8N: Automate Lead Capture and CRM Sync in Real-Time The Problem: Lost Leads Cost You Revenue Picture this: It's 2 AM, and a hot lead just filled out your website form. By the time your sales team checks their emails at 9 AM, that prospect has already moved
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Complete technical guide to implementing 10 production-ready n8n workflows. Includes code examples, node configurations, and best practices for automation success.