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GOD FIRST ❤️ Founder & Dev Sharing real dev mistakes so you don't make them

Lagos Nigeria Katılım Ekim 2022
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
I wasn't trying to build a startup. I was just trying to deploy a contact form without losing my mind. Hi, I'm David Adeyemi. A developer and founder. Every client project ended the same way. The code was done. Tests passed locally. Then came the deployment. SSH in. Configure Nginx. Set up PM2. Something breaks. Fix it. Update the app two weeks later. SSH back in. Something else breaks. I got good at it. Really good. But "good at suffering" is not a skill I wanted to keep sharpening. Vercel made frontend feel like magic. Three clicks and you're live. I wanted that feeling for my own VPS. Not AWS. Not some $50/month platform. My own cheap server where the dollar to naira conversion doesn't make me cry. So I built @symplaxhq. Connect your VPS with an IP and password. That's it. GitHub deploys, server hardening, databases, monitoring, all from a dashboard. No more SSH holes. No more config nightmares. Just ship. If you've ever deployed anything to a VPS and felt that pain, this is for you. symplax.com
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LazyCode@LazyCode3·
A SaaS with 10 paying users who love it is worth more than a SaaS with 1,000 free users who don't care. Revenue is the only validation that actually matters.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
6 months ago I was SSH-ing into servers just to check if my app was still running. Now I open Symplax and everything is right there. CPU. Memory. Disk. Deployments. Databases. Still building but it's changing how I work every day.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
Nobody tells you this when you start freelancing in Nigeria: Your biggest competitor is not another developer. It's the client who thinks their nephew can do it for free.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
The best developers I know are not the ones who know the most. They're the ones who know exactly what to Google and when to ask for help. Ego is the most expensive tool in any stack.
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Wise
Wise@trikcode·
If you built an app, I highly recommend posting on hacker news
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
Most developers don't realize how much RAM their VPS management tool is consuming. Coolify alone needs 2GB before you deploy a single app. Symplax runs off your server. The agent on your VPS uses less than 100MB. Your server stays yours.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
The most underrated skill in tech is knowing when NOT to add a new tool to your stack. Every dependency is a liability. Every managed service is a future migration. Every abstraction is complexity someone has to maintain. Build lean. Stay lean.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
Tried Dokploy too and had similar feelings. If you want something that handles the reverse proxy automatically without touching config files, Symplax might be worth a look. Caddy handles routing and SSL behind the scenes, no manual config needed. Migration is straightforward. Connect your existing server, deploy from GitHub. symplax.com
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Matheson Steplock
Matheson Steplock@MathesonStep·
@openshipio Used to managing stuff via the CLI, tried Dokploy its ok not great, what do you do better? How easy is it to change reverse proxy config? Do you have an easy way to manage Cloudflare tunnels? How would I migrate away from my current setup?
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OpenShip
OpenShip@openshipio·
Introducing OpenShip. An open-source application platform for building, deploying, operating, and scaling applications on infrastructure you own. Replace deployment tools, managed services, and infrastructure workflows with one open-source platform. Available today: - Mail Server (Built in. One click). • Runs on your own VPS • Unlimited domains • Unlimited mailboxes • Modern webmail included • Connect with Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or any IMAP/SMTP client • Send email directly from your applications using SMTP • No mailbox subscriptions or API fees • High email deliverability - Deployment: • Deploy any stack • Git-based deployments • Zero-downtime deployments • One-click rollbacks • Development, Staging, and Production environments • Multi-branch deployments with isolated environments • Deploy to VPSs, dedicated servers, cloud VMs, or your homelab - Services: Provision the services your applications need in one click. Replace multiple managed providers with services running on your own infrastructure. • Supabase • PostgreSQL • MySQL • MariaDB • MongoDB • Redis • MinIO • Meilisearch • Qdrant • RabbitMQ • Kafka • ClickHouse • Elasticsearch ...and deploy any other service alongside your applications. - Operate: • Live deployment logs • Live request logs • Real-time traffic analytics • Automated backups • Monitoring • Secrets management • Domains • Automatic SSL • Environment variables • Scheduled jobs • Health checks -Multi Environments: • Separate Development, Staging, and Production environments • Deploy every branch independently • Test changes before production • Isolated services, secrets, and configuration per environment - Security & Teams: • Team management • Role-based access control • IP allow/block rules • Rate limiting • Security rules - Developer Experience: • Web dashboard • Native desktop application • CLI • REST API • MCP support for AI agents, just add the mcp and your agent can do the work for you • Manage your infrastructure without living in SSH - Coming Soon: • Multi-server clustering for applications and databases • One-click load balancing • Horizontal scaling across multiple servers • Built-in high availability and failover • Scale from a single VPS to a cluster with the same workflow • Just add servers. OpenShip handles the rest. Open source.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
@dilshadtweets @buildwithsid good breakdown. Step 2 is where most people get stuck though. Symplax skips the Nginx and Coolify setup entirely. connect your VPS, we handle the configuration, then deploy straight from GitHub. same end result, less setup. symplax.com
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Dilshad
Dilshad@dilshadtweets·
@buildwithsid aahhh you got a taste of vercel break it down to simple and easy task: 1. buy a vps 2. setup nginx or coolify 3. deploy your app 4. make required dns changes Bring back your app and have everything under your control
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siddharth
siddharth@buildwithsid·
woke up to this today i guess a good problem to have 🙏🏻 gonna try migrating to cloudflare or try self hosting some stuff myself on vps give some suggestions :)
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Mustafa Hoda
Mustafa Hoda@mustafahoda·
@aed_sh_ @coolifyio Looks similar to it. One thing Coolify is lacking that I miss when I migrated off of Vercel is rich logging. I still haven’t been able to nail it with my self hosted setup. Hopefully @openshipio has something on par … if not better.
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aed@aed_sh_·
How does this compare to @coolifyio ?
OpenShip@openshipio

Introducing OpenShip. An open-source application platform for building, deploying, operating, and scaling applications on infrastructure you own. Replace deployment tools, managed services, and infrastructure workflows with one open-source platform. Available today: - Mail Server (Built in. One click). • Runs on your own VPS • Unlimited domains • Unlimited mailboxes • Modern webmail included • Connect with Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or any IMAP/SMTP client • Send email directly from your applications using SMTP • No mailbox subscriptions or API fees • High email deliverability - Deployment: • Deploy any stack • Git-based deployments • Zero-downtime deployments • One-click rollbacks • Development, Staging, and Production environments • Multi-branch deployments with isolated environments • Deploy to VPSs, dedicated servers, cloud VMs, or your homelab - Services: Provision the services your applications need in one click. Replace multiple managed providers with services running on your own infrastructure. • Supabase • PostgreSQL • MySQL • MariaDB • MongoDB • Redis • MinIO • Meilisearch • Qdrant • RabbitMQ • Kafka • ClickHouse • Elasticsearch ...and deploy any other service alongside your applications. - Operate: • Live deployment logs • Live request logs • Real-time traffic analytics • Automated backups • Monitoring • Secrets management • Domains • Automatic SSL • Environment variables • Scheduled jobs • Health checks -Multi Environments: • Separate Development, Staging, and Production environments • Deploy every branch independently • Test changes before production • Isolated services, secrets, and configuration per environment - Security & Teams: • Team management • Role-based access control • IP allow/block rules • Rate limiting • Security rules - Developer Experience: • Web dashboard • Native desktop application • CLI • REST API • MCP support for AI agents, just add the mcp and your agent can do the work for you • Manage your infrastructure without living in SSH - Coming Soon: • Multi-server clustering for applications and databases • One-click load balancing • Horizontal scaling across multiple servers • Built-in high availability and failover • Scale from a single VPS to a cluster with the same workflow • Just add servers. OpenShip handles the rest. Open source.

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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
This is genuinely impressive. The feature list is wild. The one tradeoff with self-hosted platforms like this: you're still the one maintaining the tool that manages your tools. Updates, bugs, downtime. That's on you. Built @symplaxhq for exactly that gap. Same 'your own server' philosophy, but Symplax is fully managed so you never have to think about the headaches that come with self-hosting itself. Rooting for the self-hosting movement regardless. 💪
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
@zeropsio That's a fairer model honestly. But usage based can still surprise you when traffic spikes. The exit plan stays relevant regardless of how the billing works 😂
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Zerops
Zerops@zeropsio·
@LazyCode3 Well, Zerops skips the free-tier funnel entirely: credits to start, then you pay for the cores and RAM you use by the minute. No pricing cliff to plan an escape from.
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LazyCode@LazyCode3·
Free tiers are not free. They are customer acquisition funnels with an expiry date. Supabase pauses your project after inactivity. PlanetScale killed their free tier overnight. Heroku removed free hosting entirely. Always have an exit plan.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
Docker quietly eats your disk space and nobody talks about it. Dangling images. Stopped containers. Build cache. Symplax shows you exactly what's sitting there and lets you clean it up in one click. No terminal. No docker system prune guessing games.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
You don't need Kubernetes for your side project. You need: 👉🏿 One VPS 👉🏿 Docker 👉🏿 A deployment pipeline 👉🏿 Backups Start simple. Scale when the problem actually exists.
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
I used to SSH into my server just to check if it was still alive. CPU spiking? No idea until something broke. 
Memory full? Found out when the app crashed. 
Disk space? Only checked it when uploads started failing. Now I just open Symplax and it's all there.
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Omoalhaja
Omoalhaja@omoalhajaabiola·
Show us your portfolio Let me surprise you
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
Before you launch anything: 👉🏿 Set up automated backups 👉🏿 Test your restore process 👉🏿 Set up uptime monitoring 👉🏿 Add error logging None of this is glamorous. All of it will save you at 3am.
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DevCareer Africa
DevCareer Africa@dev_careers·
And we have our winners! 🎉 After weeks of learning, building, and presenting innovative solutions, the DevCareer x Nomba Hackathon 2026 has come to an exciting close. Today, we're proud to celebrate the teams whose outstanding projects stood out. 🥇 1st Place: Team PayWise — $4,000 🥈 2nd Place: Team Glasspot — $1,500 🥉 3rd Place: Team Paye!! — $1,000 Congratulations to our winners, and a huge thank you to every participant who took on the challenge, built with the Nomba API, and made this hackathon a success. Build Real Solutions. Earn Real Rewards. #DevCareerxNomba #Hackathon #DevCareer #Nomba #NombaAPI #BuildWithNomba
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LazyCode
LazyCode@LazyCode3·
60 seconds to connect a server. Under 2 minutes to deploy. This is what managing your own infrastructure should feel like. 💚
Collan@collan_devs

@symplaxhq Recorded a real deploy start to finish. GitHub push to live server. Under 2 minutes. This is Symplax. Built by @LazyCode3

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