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634 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.218s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
1. vinc ◴[] No.41345730[source]
Working on a web app to check various metrics on cloud servers (or virtual machines on-prem) and suggest optimizations to reduce cloud waste (and costs). I'm basically automating a good part of the infrastructure maintenance I was doing as a full-stack dev in my previous job.

There are already a lot of services to right-size servers, but I want to focus on small teams that might not have a full-time devops yet and lack the time to check every server manually.

The app will be simple with an educational part, it should be like having access to continuous audits on our infrastructure, just like the CI/CD tools we use on our codebase.

It already helped me at home to reduce the load on my oldest Raspberry Pi by shifting some services to a newer one that was mostly idle and right-sizing some VMs in the Proxmox cluster of the rack in my homelab. Having a green check next to each server name is a good motivation!

Another thing that is scratching my own itch is server discovery (especially in a multi-cloud environment) and integrations because it's just so easy to forget some servers in a cloud when you do a lot of experiments and keep paying for them for months.

The MVP is getting ready to launch, I'm making the landing page right now, and then I hope to find some early adopters to iterate on the app and make it useful to other devs. I'm also thinking about open-sourcing it.

I'm interested in having conversations to discover the pain points of other people in that space, so feel free to reach out to me!

https://cloudcheck.cc