u/Past-Vegetable-9186

Hi, is anyone using Netbird as SDN, not just VPN? What's your experience?

EDIT: sorry for not being clear - I mean to replace vlans, subnets, internal firewalls between subnets,.. simply to break old school networking and replace it using SDN

Hi, is anyone sharing their PC with friend over sunshine? Ideal setup would be:

• Proxmox with 2 GPUs (and one integrated for Proxmox)
• 1 VM per 1 GPU

Just curious.

Solo founder from Czech Republic. Launching Veluvanto today after about a year of work.

You upload anything — invoice, receipt, contract, warranty card, scan, photo from your phone. AI reads it, extracts what's inside (amounts, dates, who it's from), and makes everything searchable. You can also just ask the assistant questions like "how much did I spend on electricity last year" and it answers with citations to the actual documents.

It also catches deadlines in invoices and contracts before they slip past you. EU-hosted, data never used for training AI, free tier with no card required.

Ping me for the PH link. Any upvote would mean a lot today, and honest feedback is always welcome too.

Been working on this for about 6 months, launched recently, figured I'd share while it's all still fresh and painful.

What I built: Veluvanto -- AI document management for small businesses. You throw in PDFs, scans, photos of invoices/contracts/receipts and it reads them, pulls out dates/amounts/entities, categorizes everything and makes it searchable. There's also an AI chat where you can ask stuff like "show me all invoices from 2024 over €500" and it finds them.

The stack:

• Go + PocketBase (embedded mode), SQLite in WAL mode
• React 19, Vite, shadcn/ui
• Gemini 2.5 Flash/Pro through self-hosted LiteLLM
• OpenSearch for full-text, Qdrant for vector/semantic search
• Backblaze B2 (primary) + Wasabi (DR), everything SSE-C encrypted
• Docker Compose on Hetzner. No k8s. No serverless. Just SSH and compose files.
• Paddle for billing

The interesting part architecturally: every tenant gets their own isolated container with its own PocketBase + SQLite DB. Provisioning happens over Docker SSH from a management node. Containers back up to S3 on schedule and can be restored on any worker node if something goes down. Basically stateless tenants with S3 as the source of truth.

What went well:

• PocketBase is insane for solo dev. Auth, DB, realtime, file storage, all in one Go binary. I just hook into it.
• The "boring infra" decision was the best call I made. Every time I thought "maybe I should add k8s" I just didn't, and I never regretted it.
• Gemini Flash handles invoices and receipts at like 95%+ accuracy on anything remotely structured. Way better than I expected.

What sucked:

• Multi-tenancy is a whole product by itself. Network isolation, per-tenant encryption keys, backup/restore, rolling updates across nodes, health checks, auto-recovery... I spent more time on infra than on the actual product features.
• S3 SDKs. Newer AWS SDK versions send checksum headers that Backblaze and Wasabi just reject. Spent a whole day debugging that before pinning the SDK version.
• I built the product. I have no idea how to get people to use it. Dev brain doesn't do marketing.

Numbers (keeping it honest):

• Opened product to public few weeks ago, but launching this week due to some troubles with Google
• 0 paying customers
• Running on a Hetzner VPS, costs me ~€30/month all in

If anyone wants to poke around, I'm doing a free month for paid plans -- code VELUVANTO1FREE at veluvanto.com. Mostly I want people breaking things and telling me what's missing.

For those who've actually gotten past the "built it, nobody came" phase -- what actually worked? Cold outreach? Content? Communities? I'm at the stage where I'd honestly appreciate someone telling me my landing page sucks more than another "looks great!" comment.