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Comment by goenning

2 years ago

During my previous job, when we were migrating to Kubernetes I couldn’t really find a GUI app that I liked, and most importantly, that could connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. We had 6 clusters and having to switch context constantly was annoying

I ended up building one [1] to use myself, shared with a few people and they loved it. I asked if they’d pay for it and to my surprise, a lot of people said yes. I’ve put up a website and a “pre-order” button with a regressive monthly discount. Sales were going up month after month, and a few months later I decided to quit my job to go all in on it.

Today, I’m averaging on ~€5k/mo from this app, but I’m still doing some part time freelancing, as well as building other products that are not as successful, but are making >€1000/mo

The latest one is open source, privacy friendly analytics for apps [2] that I’m still very actively working on. This is my current “side project” as the previous side project became my main job :)

There’s also an open source upvote site [3] that I started 6 years ago, but haven’t had much time to work on it lately, still generating $$ monthly

[1] https://aptakube.com [2] https://aptabase.com [3] https://fider.io

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silisili  2 years ago

This is awesome. Not using k8s in my current role, but when I was, that would have made my life a whole lot easier.

ilamparithi  2 years ago

Sounds great. How do you handle the licenses for the desktop app? Custom solution or is there a library for it?

  • goenning  2 years ago

    It’s a custom solution, zero regrets building it. Gives me total control over how it’s done and didn’t take me that long to implement

monroewalker  2 years ago

Looks really well done! What did you build it with?

  • goenning  2 years ago

    The app is built with Tauri

    • mattfrommars  2 years ago

      Could you please explain how did you make the UI of the application very modern and startup vibe. I am really into UI like that and I have no idea how its built. this is beyond bootstrap UI, is it true?

      I geniuely thought after looking at the screenshot, I would need to learn Swift and understand how apps are made in Mac to make an app to look like that.

      My background is in Java and C Sharp. Looking at Microsoft UI framework, it does not look at all what you made.

      Could you please show a good place to start to make and mock UI like that ? I find your work more interesting since your background appears to be backend/cloud!

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