My mom and hosting

My mom is named Jane. She is in her mid 70s. She is the best grandma in the world. She used to be a nurse in the children's ER. She is truly an amazing person and one of my best friends.

She is comfortable with a computer. Texts, emails, Word docs, Dropbox files shared with family.

But now we are going to a new world, one where everyone builds, and why should she be left behind?

What would happen if I gave my mom access to Claude Code? I bet she could build a simple site. She could just ask it. But then how would she get it online? Maybe she wants to? Maybe she can try? Now I know what you are saying. Why can't she just use Base44? She could. But I want her to use claude!

The tools we have today are amazing

I love Coolify. Here is how I wired it up with Tailscale, UFW, and Cloudflare. Vercel, Netlify, Fly, Render are all great. If you can write git push and understand a bit about hosting, the modern cloud is awesome.

But my mom does not know what Git is. She does not know what a domain is, a server, a DNS record, an env var, a deploy. She does not need to know. The words were invented by engineers, and the tools that wrap them mostly stayed engineer-shaped.

The obvious move is for me to host her stuff on my Coolify server and just give her a username and password. That does not work either. I'd just be handing her access to a dashboard she doesn't understand, she won’t be able to update it herself - it’s just too complicated.

I love building things, I love ops and I love side projects! What if, as a side project, I made a service with one singular goal: make it possible for my mom to host a website without any help. It should be secure, easy, give her the basic things she would need, like analytics, and just work! I'll call it Boring Ops (although personally I love ops, just a lot of people seem to really hate it).

And if anyone is wondering, I don't care if anyone is already doing this. I am building this for me, because I think it will be fun and I will learn new things