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A Full Self-Hosted Agentic Software Factory on a 2021 i7 and a £20/Month Subscription, With Tailscale as the Only Ingress
Jake Saunders published a working self-hosted agent stack on August 21 (106 points, 56 comments): Forgejo for git and CI runners, Hermes as the OpenClaw-style assistant, Coolify as the Docker PaaS, Pi-hole for DNS, self-hosted Firecrawl for scraping, all on a spare 10th-gen i7 with 32GB RAM. Inference stays external via a £20/month Codex subscription. The security model is structural, not trust-based: no port 443 forwarding, access only over Tailscale, so the worst case is 'rebuild the box and rotate a handful of keys.' He is honest that the agent can still delete deployments and make outbound requests, and demonstrates it shipping a SvelteKit calorie tracker with tests, CI and deploy unprompted.
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