projects
Apps and things I've built or am currently building.
An uncomplicated and friendly app for making and saving notes and lists. Notes are stored directly on your phone — no cloud, no fuss. Includes backup & restore and a Read Aloud feature.
An experiment in cloud sovereignty(version 2) — running my own hosting infrastructure on a Linux server using HestiaCP, rather than relying on AWS or Microsoft. The goal is to self-host email with webmail, websites, and potentially offer the same to others for free. Over time I plan to explore self-hosted alternatives to other cloud services I currently depend on.
I'm deliberately not prioritising security and availability at the start. These requirements are hard and ultimately expensive to achieve properly because they're dependent on redundant hardware across multiple sites and active monitoring. Trying to get them right from the beginning is how projects like this get buried in complexity before anything works (e.g.V1).I've been there before.
Instead, the strategy is to reduce the impact of failures and attacks by hosting resources that aren't valuable or time-critical, rather than trying to harden everything. This means the service won't suit many people — and that's fine. It's not a commercial venture and I'm not making promises. Security and availability will come through maturity, once the basics are solid.