clorl / postcloud

The next generation self-hosted cloud

Postcloud : Your Everything

Postcloud aims to be an all-in-one platform for self-hosted cloud. Powered by Rust and HTMX, is aims to be fast, easy to use and easy to develop for. Postcloud allows you to host your files, calendar, e-mail, contacts in a self-hosted cloud. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Postcloud provides an easy way to develop front-end apps that can be easily added, removed and configured from a Postcloud installation.

Examples

Make your own home postcloud, with cooking recipes, rendered beautifully by a community app, as well as a meal planner and a calories tracker. Display everything on your tablet, and configure a beautiful dashboard that to kickoff your day.

For schools, a myriad of apps allow professors to manage their classes, schedules and grades. An all-in-one platform that can be easily deployed on a national scale, with minimum maintenance.

Create a postcloud instance for work. Use the calendar to manage your employees schedules, use the leaves extension to manage time-off requests, and with the cashier app they can easily input transactions that will directly be stored in your database.

Postcloud: Harness the power of simplicity

Philosophy

• Everything WebDav/HTTP
• Views are detached from Dav API
• Easily extensible with apps
• Can run on a local filesystem
• Server is frontend agnostic, and frontend can easily be swapped/ditched if necessary
• Server will serve frontend views when HTTP requests are issued if they exist
• Everything is an app, so for example, event the frontend layout is an app
  • Default layout uses the default navbar app and displays the RouterView
  • Layout can be extended, modified etc.
  • For example custom navbar, but also custom global layout

Idea dump

• Make your own frontend however you like
• Apps can create new views (mysite.com/app/myApp) or extend existing apps
• Each app has its own DB scope and cannot interact with the DB (for security)
  • Each app must use the WebDav API in order to interact with Filesystem
  • Does this mean that every app is basically frontend + data and Postcloud is the universal controller?
• Redis DB for cache?

Postcloud: Welcome to the post-cloud era