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lyloon Time to start de-Appling

Thanks. Looks good, although perhaps Ente has the edge with things like facial recognition (I know this is a big draw for family with Apple Photos)

lyloon Time to start de-Appling

De-Appleing is very difficult if you have a family using iCloud Photos, music, drive etc.

Looking at the list, perhaps moving documents off iCloud Drive (to where? Dropbox? That isn’t E2E is it?) and Notes is enough.

Do I really care if my photos are E2E encrypted? Most of my photos are in Lightroom cloud so those are not anyway.

I don’t use reminders or Freeform or voice memos, and I couldn’t care less about safari bookmarks. If I move off Drive and Notes, I don’t really care about iCloud backup either.

Is this sufficient? My notes will go to Obsidian (except some disposable shared ones) but where do I move my documents if not on iCloud Drive? Is Dropbox any better?

lyloon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

Pagecord - blog from your inbox! Free and source available. Give it a look :)

https://pagecord.com

lyloon Migrating from AWS to Hetzner

I'm at a small scale with https://pagecord.com but I did the same earlier this year. Couldn't be happier!

https://olly.pagecord.com/migrating-the-pagecord-rails-app-f...

lyloon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

I’m building Pagecord to make blogging as effortless as posting on social media, but without the doomscrolling.

https://pagecord.com

It’s minimal in design, but packed with features.

The USP that customers seem to really value is posting by email. It massively reduces the friction required to blog and is surprisingly enjoyable.

Launching next week is custom home pages with dynamic variables. It’s in beta already, see https://iamgregb.io.

Pagecord is free and source available with an unbeatably priced premium plan of $29/year.

Follow along on GitHub: https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

Feedback welcome! :)

lyloon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

I’m working on Pagecord. Blogging as easy as sending an email.

https://pagecord.com

Pagecord is free with a very full-featured (and cheap!) premium package. Email newsletter, custom domains, privacy-respecting analytics etc.

Source is available. Ruby on Rails:

https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

lyloon macOS Tahoe

Framework?

lyloon RSS is awesome

Yeah never subscribe to a feed that publishes more than once a day (basically any news website).

lyloon RSS is awesome

Anything that raises awareness of RSS to a new generation is a wonderful thing!

lyloon RSS is awesome

Yes! I've been lovingly curating a set of RSS feeds for over 20 years. It's a wonderful gift from the internet.

I actually built a simple and free RSS reader because my needs are simple and I'm a sucker for punishment. You'd think websites would want bots to read their RSS feeds since that's the whole point of RSS, but apparently not! ツ

https://feedgrab.net

lyloon Typepad is shutting down

Wow, thanks :)

lyloon Side Project Hub

Nice job!

lyloon Typepad is shutting down

You're doing great work here!

lyloon Typepad is shutting down

Wow that's an incredible amount of views. And an incredible shame at the same time.

If you want to try out my app Pagecord (https://pagecord.com) I'd happily try and help you migrate over.

Biggest problem is the death of the *.typepad.com domain though. I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...

lyloon Typepad is shutting down

Yeah, it's shame but perhaps they don't actually have any customers left

lyloon Typepad is shutting down

Is anyone here affected by this? I'd be surprised but I'm curious

lyloon Typepad is shutting down

Yes! See https://kagi.com/smallweb and https://ooh.directory. So many good blogs!

lyloon Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

Pagecord!

Publish your writing effortlessly. All you need is email.

Blogging, micro blogging, email newsletter, etc.

Freemium, Open source, Ruby on Rails.

https://pagecord.com

lyloon Show HN: Pagy 2.0, a free drag-and-drop website builder

Congrats - super impressive what you’ve made here

lyloon I used Claude Sonnet 4 to help a customer import their blog archive in 46 mins

I dunno about that, this use case suggests otherwise!

lyloon Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

Yeah. Lots of “culling” software out there but agree it would be a good feature for standard photo organisation apps

https://imagen-ai.com/

https://aftershoot.com/

lyloon Heroku login down for 7 hours

Yeah I'm operating on a shoestring but tbh servers are super-reliable as is Postgres. What even is "production grade"? Read replicas, point-in-time restores etc? For a product that is ~$1000 ARR I think I can live with a bit of risk (I do regular backups of course and have a restore process). Maybe it will bite me in the ass, but I'll risk it :)

lyloon Ask HN: Small bootstrapped founders – how do you prioritize resource allocation?

I built the early prototype for me (I wanted it, dogfooding etc) and I tried to market it. Not a huge success, but enough for me to add some paid-for features. Got a few customers, got some feedback on what was missing, added a few more features. Kept doing that, but at a certain point where I felt it was definitely good enough, I started focusing a lot more on marketing – outreach on forums, a bit of advertising, SEO optimisation etc.

So it has been incremental, add stuff, market stuff, get customer feedback (where did they find it, what were they looking for etc)... then rinse and repeat. Not sure how useful this is, maybe doesn't quite answer your questions.

Ultimately you need to know who your early market is and try and double down on that, get people into the top of the funnel basically. If your funnel is dry, you have no chance.

lyloon Ask HN: Share you personal favorite productivity tools, workflows or setup

I wrote a blog post about this a wee while back - whaddayathink?

https://olly.pagecord.com/recommended-tools-for-running-an-i...

lyloon Ask HN: What's the State of Linux Laptops?

Read some of DHHs posts - lots of useful info https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-year-on-linux-7f30279e

Also, check out Tuxedo if you're in the EU

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en

lyloon Ask HN: Small bootstrapped founders – how do you prioritize resource allocation?

I don't have a plan for https://pagecord.com. Life's too short. YOLO, etc.

My app is relatively feature rich right now so I would say I spend a lot more time on marketing. I still add features of course (and they are a form of marketing), but with AI help these take a lot less time than they used to. Trying to figure out distribution channels, build awareness and so on is the hard yards in 2025.

lyloon Ask HN: If not Kubernetes, what do you use to run your apps?

I have a single server running https://pagecord.com. I use Hatchbox on a Hetzner server. I wrote a bit about it here:

https://olly.pagecord.com/migrating-the-pagecord-rails-app-f...

I have plenty of paying customers but I still think K8s would be complete overkill at this stage.

lyloon Heroku login down for 7 hours

That's a big one and I'm sure will be the final nail in the coffin for plenty of people. No reason to use Heroku in 2025, especially for Rails apps (you mentioned Kamal).

I moved my app onto Hetzner + Cloudflare R2 and I couldn't be happier!

https://olly.pagecord.com/migrating-the-pagecord-rails-app-f...

lyloon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Thanks, appreciate it. Big fan of Bearblog myself, but I wanted to scratch my own itch and make something a little different for non-techies. Blog by email was the biggest thing I wanted.

lyloon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Once I add private blogs/post support to Pagecord, it will kinda do this automatically. Maybe. Sort of. https://pagecord.com.