[mawise]

I met a guy a while ago who's passion was enabling self-hosting. His vision was to use an old android phone as a server--he ended up building a domain registrar[1] to facilitate OAuth-style flows for configuring DNS and an ngrok-style proxy[2] service that could configure DNS through said flow.

[1]: https://takingnames.io/ [2]: https://boringproxy.io/

[abdullahkhalids]

This is very cool. I have been thinking of a similar service that should exist.

Suppose you want to host your own email, or a mastodon server or similar. You download this application to your local computer. You pick what you want to install. It asks you which domain name provider you want to use, and which server host you want to use (eg. local or hetzner). It guides you into creating accounts for these services. Then uses their API, to set up the appropriate server, DNS settings etc.

It might not be fully automated, but something like this can seriously bring down the skill floor needed to host anything.

[bryanrasmussen]

who's can also mean who has, which is where you've probably seen it used in ways that imply a possessive, but normally means who is, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45257167 indicated

[efilife]

Whose! Who's means who is

[dcminter]

Further off-topic: You're not wrong, but maybe you should be. It's one of the most pointless irregular grammar rules in English. Nobody is ever confused by the wrong usage of the apostrophe here (when spoken there's no voicing of it). Native writers of English often get it wrong. If we had an Academy Anglaise we'd just regularise this usage. I give it 50 years max before possessive "who's" is considered correct (along with "it's").

[michaelsshaw]

Whose cares