This. I still live here and you can really feel it. I like your solution - much cleaner while we're trying to reform permitting.

Berkeley just nearly got it done but got stuck in committees https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-big-zoning-battle-of... - we need a faster solution.

Edit: reading the article, Lurie is proposing this:

- https://www.sf.gov/mayor-lurie-launches-permit-reform-effort...

- https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/lurie-housing-rezonin...

Note to self: Read the article before diving into the comments.

Wonderful video, thank you! The one on the linked Nebula page is also great.

It’s funny - I subscribe to Nebula (a “boutique” video platform) and subconsciously have felt these things that are talked about in both videos, but I needed someone to point them out to me for me to consciously notice.

Same here! Been self hosting on hetzner for about a year now, and support the OSS project for $10/month. Love how it can auto-deploy new git commits, deploy Postgres or any database to the same or separate servers, and you can cram as many apps or docker containers onto a single VPS or move them to a separate server when you need to.

Finally, little utilities like snapdrop or mosquitto are a button click away. Strongly recommended - it’s liberating! I don’t need to re-learn every PaaS vendor’s system - my PaaS comes with me. And a junior can be onboarded to this UI way easier than dokku or kamal IMO.

Another commenter mentioned that zero downtime deployments are not possible, isn't this a loss in your opinion, or did you find a way to do it using Coolify?

They were mistaken or maybe referring to an older version, because I definitively use rolling zero downtime updates from commits

For true zero downtime, the connections have to be slowly drained, i.e. two all instances may exist at the same time. Does coolify support that?

Coolify does support zero downtime deployments, but the documentation isn't live yet: https://github.com/coollabsio/documentation-coolify/blob/640...

It uses docker stop once the new container is healthy with a 30 second timeout, which I believe lets existing connections drain out.

"Move them to a separate server" - is that easy to do using Coolify?

Yes, you can move or clone to a separate server with a single click. Only volumes are not currently supported when doing this.

How? I can't find it in the docs.

Just use the Clone button on the Resources page or on the Resource Operations tab of an application - the functions are very self-explanatory, so there is no documentation yet.

Me neither. I found this https://github.com/Geczy/coolify-migration but if there's a native way to do it that would be great.

Full instance migration is in development but not yet released.

I understand you think it is obvious and no docs are required, but it is a bit ambiguous ”you can move or clone to a separate server with a single click” and ”Full instance migration is in development but not yet released.”

Hot take: At its best, CoreOS provides a lot of the low-maintenance benefits of PaaS, with all of the affordability and vendor neutrality of a VPS.

What an amazingly well-written piece of old-school journalism. Well done!

And well done to the amazing cool of the astronauts - reminds you that space is still a frontier.

This is one of the coolest articles I’ve come across on HN ever. Also - it’s true steam punk (sorry).

I love DIY solar and have built a few of my own systems too, long before Pila. I posted something called $200 solar self sufficiency to HN many years ago in 2017 and it got me onto this train. Will Prouse is the best, agreed!

Thanks so much for taking the time to write such an in-depth, thoughtful set of questions and feedback!

Thanks for sharing your experience re: the Feb 2021 freeze, and cool that you got your kid a big battery for their apartment!

Which color would you like to see next? Sorry none of our current 4 match your palette! Unfortunately, as a capital constrained startup going super broad on colorways/SKUs is not very financially prudent for us, but still curious :)

If you want to hack your way around Shopify's UI for color selection, you can technically hit "checkout" with 1 color, hit back and it'll still be in your cart, then repeat with as many color options as you like until you have all colors/options you're interested in. Sorry for the trouble - we're launching with an off-the-shelf e-commerce solution so as to spend our time on the product itself.

Our temperature, dust and water ratings need to be finalized once we're closer to final shipping product, but we're definitely planning for constrained indoor use, even in a hot summer garage for example. Sorry to not be more specific!

As to the powerstrip, pre-orders are only to signal intent to purchase, and we'll be reaching out to all pre-orders to see who wants solar, expansion and powerstrip before we actually ship! Great question - thank you!

There will be Pila sensors and third party sensors - we integrate directly with them. So more than illustrative! Once the data is in your Home Assistant for example, you can do as you please, of course. Hope that answers your question?

Great point on more app-specific details. We'll showcase more soon!

Thank you for your inputs on showing more of the product angles and the spacial situation - great feedback.

Thanks again, and let me know if I missed anything.

>If you want to hack your way around Shopify's UI for color selection, you can technically hit "checkout" with 1 color, hit back and it'll still be in your cart, then repeat with as many color options as you like until you have all colors/options you're interested in.

Geez. I knew this. I'm not sure why it didn't click with me yesterday.

The color that fits my stuff best is an organic green like olive, moss, or asparagus. No need for y'all to worry about that. I can always change the color here to fit or use velcro strips to wrap it in leather or a light fabric to complement the colors I have. I'm pretty handy.

I could picture needing a powerstrip for the extra outlets, especially for the Pila that powered my workstation/network setup. There are more than 4 devices needing clean power.

From the pictures on the site it appears that the expansion battery is a pure battery add-on with no additional outlets though it will have a port for connecting to a user solar array up to 1200W.

Other competitors spend time expounding on the benefits of having a portable, solar generator. When you look at their offerings they are similarly styled boxy rectangles that may be difficult to fit inside vehicle compartments. The advantage of the Pila is the layout geometry. Something with a flat profile like that can be made to fit in many commercially available pickup/camper/RV drawer units with no need to take up living space. It has much more deployment flexibility. You should consider a portable unit sized for those applications since the form factor is optimum for that user space.

Can you describe the method that your solar array will use to connect to the Pila and the expansion battery? Is it a fairly standard screw-type hold-down for the solar conductors, a plug-in, or a proprietary connection type? What is the wire gauge used in your solar panel cables and how long are the cables? I see that Pila uses dual MPPT input so that's probably the best flexibility for someone to be able to take best advantage of their local situation since it manages different string lengths, panel types, etc.

Thank you for the clear replies. I wish you all the best. This looks like a great product with flexible application and it is styled to look like it can fit with many common decor elements. Other similar units from competitors are nowhere near as cleanly stylish as the Pila.

If the handles could be made to pivot so that they laid flat against the sides when deployed that would reduce the long dimension (currently 26.5"/675mm) by around 3-4"/38-51mm and allow them to fit in less space. It would preserve the rectangular profile of the unit so that it looks more like a common piece of tech and a bit less like an industrial device. The handles could be recessed into the case with a positive lock in the closed position so that they don't flop down if deployed with the long axis vertical.

I really see the potential of something like this when your system can manage up to 64 Pila batteries (102 kWh!). That is huge capacity, far beyond residential requirements and really establishes Pila as a strong contender for use in commercial settings to function as backup and to aid commercial operations recovery after disasters. The closest I have seen is the EcoFlow unit which can be stacked up to 90 kWh capacity using their extra batteries in a three inverter setup.

If you're looking for test drivers let me know. I would be happy to test this product line and app to help you identify any stumbling blocks before your customers have the opportunity to complain. I have a bit of experience troubleshooting data processing software and acquisition hardware in the seismic industry and am a born button-pusher. If it can be made to fail, I can make it fail spectacularly at all the wrong times. Just kidding.

I'm not a You-Tuber. Anything I did would be for your internal use only to aid product development and verify functionality matches the information in the user documentation.

I'm in N Texas with a great view of the southern sky. We have massive thunderstorms with awesome lightning shows that sometimes take our CO-OP power down. Tornadoes are a common seasonal threat as well. We do experience brownouts and surges, more in the last 5 years than I can remember in the 25 years we've been here. That's why I have a couple of small UPS' to protect our electronics and why we are interested in building out our own solar capacity with battery storage to manage all those times when the CO-OP grid has problems.

Good luck.

It definitely does load shifting and utility rate arbitrage (and solar power charging) as a side benefit, but it’s not built to be an arbitrage machine. Its primary use case is backup, for now.

Great point, thank you!