Hosting projects built with Cursor / n8n / Lovable is harder than it should be
3 pointsby Vikram_jindal5 months ago1 comment
  • dtagames5 months ago
    Deploying software is always at least as hard as writing it in the first place, and none of the AI tools are of much help.

    This is reason we see lots of videos of AI software demos but few links to things we could download or run ourselves.

    • Vikram_jindal5 months ago
      Yeah, totally get what you mean. I’ve noticed the same thing — AI tools make it ridiculously easy to spin up something that looks like a working app, but the moment you try to deploy it in the real world, you hit walls.

      Most demos stop short of deployment because setting up DNS, SSL, scaling, logs, monitoring, and all the little “ops” bits is still way too messy — especially if you’re not already DevOps-heavy. That’s kind of what pushed me into exploring this space more seriously.

      Curious though — when you’ve had to take something beyond a demo yourself, did you lean more towards DIY VPS setups or managed platforms? I keep running into people who either overpay for simplicity or underpay and get buried in configs.

      • dtagames5 months ago
        I already had experience deploying web apps so I use the same setup I have a workflow for. But if that's not been someone's experience, DevOps, as you say, it's going to be a hard road.

        My advice is not to build anything you cannot be sure you can ship. And you must know how it will ship before you code it to ensure that happens.