Hey

I made two pet projects for my own uses mostly and would love some opinions and of course users are welcome.
I'll publish the repositories once i'm done reviewing and reading through everything Claude has generated. :)

https://trongate.cloud
https://recruiter.trongate.dev

Thanks

Wow, these look so nice! Thank you for sharing them.

Both sites look super clean and professional, the fonts and colors look really amazing together!

I can see how the recruiter website would be really useful for when I start applying for junior developer jobs. The cloud site sounds really cool too. Deployment always scares me a bit because I am still quite new to PHP, but making it push automatically from GitHub seems so smart! You must be really smart at programming to build something like this.

Good luck with both projects!

Tina

Thanks Tina

I would love if trongate.cloud had more than me using or if it became sort of a community project.
If i keep operating, i might ask for like 5$ a month once i feel it's production ready. :)

Ahoy!

I have to start with a slightly miserable disclaimer.

I have an AI-driven thing that does some shenanigans involving matching CVs to jobs. It does not look anywhere near as good as yours. I've been using it for about three or four months. I have not made it public and have no intentions of selling it. However, I was thinking about presenting it as a project for part of a training course. Just saying.

Also, I've used DeployHQ as a paying customer for a long time, and I've often spoken about how I'd like to someday have some kind of DeployHQ thing for Trongate. For that, I have not yet written a single line of code. However, there's a 5% chance that I may do something in the future with it.

For these reasons, I must refrain from looking too closely at what you're doing. For one thing, you're such a great developer - I worry that I'd end up stealing ideas from you!

That being said, I did have a quick look and I think your work is awesome! Your pages have some of the cleanest source code I've ever seen. So, I congratulate you on these projects and I wish you every success with them. You're a super cool guy.

Hail to you!

DC

Ahoy, sasin91.

I don't post here often. Your hosting project caught my eye though, since I've been running PHP apps on my own boxes since before most of today's frameworks existed, and a Trongate aware host with push to deploy is something I'd actually like to see.

Both projects look well made. The landing page markup is clean, and the recruiter tool is a clever idea. Tina is right, it would be useful when applying for jobs.

One thing I'd add to the FAQ before you get many users is the practical limits. Bandwidth allowance, how much hosting space each app gets, what happens when a project outgrows it, and whether there's a cap on the database size. People will ask anyway, better to answer it up front than in a support thread later. Five dollars a month sounds fair, but those numbers are what people will weigh it against.

The stability section reads well. Keeping the last good build and rolling back in one click is the part that matters most, good that you've made it central instead of an afterthought.

Good luck with both.

So far so good, I will be regularly checking

Hi DC, thanks i appreciate it.
You're welcome to, in fact i would be happy if you do :)

Happy to see, Mk1978x.
Yes fair usage, limits and pricing.. eventually.. honestly it doesn't interest me much — im more in it to scratch my own itch and for the technical challenges of thinking through it. :)

Hi everyone.

Tina, you're so right about the design. I had to look at the source code for trongate.cloud and I'm glad I did. Geist is such a good pick for the UI font, and Archivo for those heavy headings really works well together.

I started in graphic design before switching to PHP, so I've spent way too much time trying to convince developers that typography actually matters! It's just nice to see a project where someone clearly cares about that side of things. Davcon mentioned the clean source code, and honestly I think that's why the front end looks so polished. You can always tell when the markup is neat, it just translates to a better layout somehow.

Really nice work sasin91. Gives me some ideas for my own projects.

**trongate.cloud: what's new (TLDR)**

A lot has landed on trongate.cloud, my hosting for Trongate apps. The short version:

- **Trongate upgrades as pull requests.** One click on a v2 app opens a PR on your repo that moves it to the newest Trongate. Your changes are merged in, your config values stay, and nothing deploys until you merge it.
- **Mail tab.** Mail your app sends through Trongate's email module is caught and shown in the panel instead of going out, so you can see exactly what your users would get.
- **Live traffic.** Watch requests come in with error rates and response times, and record them to CSV.
- **Database tab.** Browse and edit your tables and run SQL as your app's own user. Changes are opt-in, there's a backup before each change and every query is logged.
- **Deploys that undo themselves.** A new version only takes traffic once it answers, and a deploy that fails its check is rolled back automatically.
- **Sturdier configs.** Your config files are read as PHP, so custom layouts no longer break deploys.
- Also new: logs with Copy last error, an errors chart, encrypted environment variables, dev/staging/prod per app, and services next to your apps.

**One step if you already use it:** to get upgrade PRs, accept the GitHub app's new permissions once (the steps are in the post).

Full changelog with screenshots: https://trongate.cloud/news/changelog-october-9

trongate.cloud is an independent service, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Trongate project. Feedback is very welcome.

I have tested https://trongate.cloud through multiple projects and I believe it's ready for others to try it out and provide feedback.
Here's a list of "toys / demos" i've deployed: