Founder Says Free Open Source Stack Plus VPS Suffices To Build Business

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@levelsio Done exactly this over the last couple months. React/Supabase binned off for new projects. VPS, PHP, SQLite all in and dev speed is genuinely ridiculously fast now. Same template to start off every project. Couldn’t go back now.

4:25 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Thomas@tomkosial

@levelsio SQLLite is so under-rated. It's blazzing fast and allows you to create offline first mobile app, I love it more every day. Supabase looks visually sexy but is expensive for what it is

3:44 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Virgil Maro@_virgil19

@levelsio free until the VPS goes down at 3am. thats when you learn the 20 dollars a month was buying you someone elses pager, not the database

4:43 PM · Jul 14, 2026

Daniel Chapell@ChapellDaniel

@levelsio Open Source is the way, it’s always been. Shoutout to all the heroes that keep it pumping!

3:18 PM · Jul 14, 2026

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Morgan Goins@realMorganGoins

@levelsio Thanks 🫡

3:52 PM · Jul 14, 2026

@levelsio@levelsio

All you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo + a VPS server + an API to do some required AI stuff + some R2/S3 file hosting They don't want me to tweet that because it destroys their businesses but I can't lie to you!

Lukasz@woocassh

Today I moved away from supabase for SubtitlesFast supabase -> SQLite I used supabase as an experiment last year. It was so easy to setup a db, few clicks barabim barabum and it's done always thought that setting up db instance on server was a pain, passwords, permissions, friction in general so supabase definitely reduced the friction but holy shit, i never realised how much latency it added to my product I moved to SQLite as per papa's @levelsio advice and my app is VISIBLY quicker on the frontend RankGoat is already on SQLite and it's a breeze also debugging with Claude is much easier now note to self: keep it simple stupid just remember to run regular backups to another server and you're golden the next experiment is to try Cloudflare for email I think and shed the Postmark bill, anyone done this yet?

3:14 PM · Jul 14, 2026

@levelsio@levelsio

https://world.hey.com/dhh/merchants-of-complexity-4851301b

3:33 PM · Jul 14, 2026

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