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JustAPI: a Python web framework with a Rust core — the story, the numbers, and what I actually learned

JustAPI is a Python web framework where the web server, the router, the TLS termination, the request validation, the JSON serialization, and the database access all run in Rust. Your Python code handles the application logic. That is the entire premise, and it is the one sentence that explains every design decision in the project.

We had 1M users, got acquired, and I still think we made the wrong call

We built Boringrats for open source developers, scaled to 1M users on donations alone, and eventually had to let it go. This is the honest version of what that actually looked like.

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I Got Tired of GitHub Being Down, So I Built My Own Git Platform

OpenCodeHub is an open-source, self-hosted GitHub alternative built with Astro, TypeScript, and Drizzle ORM. Features SSH, stacked PRs, CI/CD pipelines, and AI code review — on your own server.