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Jacob NolletteCloud & software engineer
Topic · 4 case studies

Self-hosting

Replacing subscriptions with software you run yourself — what that actually costs, and when it is and is not worth it.

Every Log in One Place

Logs are the thing everyone agrees they should centralise and nobody wants to pay for. The usual outcome is that the noisy source drowns the useful one, retention gets cut to a week, and the one event you needed is three days past the edge of the index. I centralised...

Six Agents, One Channel Each

I run six AI agents. Each is resident in one chat channel, each has its own memory on its own volume, and each has a job: administration, facilities, maintenance, health, finance, security. The one-agent-per-channel rule came from a real failure. When two agents...

Twenty Services, Self-Hosted

Over roughly six weeks I stood up twenty self-hosted services on my own infrastructure, each replacing something that is normally a subscription: ticketing, file sharing, URL shortening, RSS, video meetings, backup management, file indexing, developer tools, a spatial...

A Browser Farm for Agents

An AI coding agent can read a public page with curl. It cannot read a client portal, check whether a deploy actually renders, or pull a number off a dashboard that has no API. Those all need the same thing: a browser that is already signed in. So I built a pool of...