@blablakarl123@heyandras Also over the time expand your impact, I started with discord improvement, then docs, then community support handling, then Coolify itself and so on..
Be consistent, Be reliable, Be communicative.
@blablakarl123@heyandras I saw Coolify discord can be improved, I created a demo server and showed it to Andras how my improvement looks like, he liked it and gave me permission to improve the server, this is how I joined Coolify :)
I am good at discord which is why I targeted improving discord server
TL;DR: So I am leveling up as a businessman and I hired another dev to help me make more community-requested apps for you! π«‘
We have a page https://t.co/dTVRXuN5Kf for your ideas but it is very simple atm.
It will be improved overtime.
Not TL;DR (with lessons learned):
When I started my entrepreneurial journey, I got inspired by @levelsio to make things alone as an indie dev.
It was working well for a few years, but I quickly realized that I cannot do what I do like that.
The community was growing like crazy, which is good (cool people) and bad (I need to handle it somehow) at the same time.
I thought that I was doing something wrong because I could not handle things alone.
It took years to realize that I was wrong.
> This was lesson #1.
Pieter's advice (and probably everyone's advice, including mine) does not fit all situations. You need to adapt to the exact situation.
> Btw, this is so true for everything in the world, literally. So important.
That is when I decided to pay people to help me with the community and with development.
Currently, we have 2 mods for the community (GitHub, Discord, emails) and 1 dev.
This is enough for Coolify itself. But I always had a bigger plan.
I call it: The Game Plan. π€
It is to make more useful apps and services for everyone, with the same philosophy as Coolify (free, open-source, no paywalls, forever).
But I cannot do it alone, even with an AI boost.
> This was lesson #2.
So I decided to pump more money back into the business by paying more people to help me make community-requested apps.
Otherwise, the money just hangs in my business bank account, which doesn't make sense. I rarely take money out of the business for myself, only pay minimum wage to have health insurance, etc. That is ~1000$/m.
So I have a few dollars there.
> Money is for spending, especially business money.
Business money is not the same as personal money.
> This was lesson #3.
I don't spend my personal money on useless things, only what is really necessary, mostly for everyone else in the family. π
(Btw, I have to learn to spend money on myself!)
So yes, I hired a dev. He is just starting today with a test month to see if everything claps for both of us.
Have a nice day! π
We could extract their system prompt and more funny things.
Research purposes only! π§
They running their agents as root, what could possibly go wrong.
"User goal: generate $100 ChatGPT subscription"
"Submit at least 5 PRs for bounties"
wtf
Shadow, one of my mods, casually made a web based network architecture designer, just to have nice images for our documentation updates.
wtf
(Oh and its free and opensource)
@heyandras@Rolando_Rojas1 Nope, not yet!
Also we have warning for humans on contributors guidelines with some comments for bots to ignore the warning: https://t.co/Hd5YtiUiTq
We could extract their system prompt and more funny things.
Research purposes only! π§
They running their agents as root, what could possibly go wrong.
"User goal: generate $100 ChatGPT subscription"
"Submit at least 5 PRs for bounties"
wtf
I just published block-clankers π₯
A GitHub Action that auto-blocks the AI-slop spam bots flooding your notifications. Fork β drop in a token β done.
Syncs from the community-maintained UnsafeLabs/Bounty-Hunters list every 30 min.
We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo.
IQ over 1000