Vibe Coding
A Fully Self-Hosted Agentic Software Factory on a £150 eBay Box and a £20 Codex Sub
Jake Saunders published a 21 August 2026 build log (116 points on Hacker News) of a sandboxed agentic SDLC that took one prompt to a repo, application, tests, green CI, a provisioned Postgres, and an HTTPS deployment without a second message. The stack is Coolify as a Docker-based PaaS, Forgejo with runners for Git and CI, Hermes (an OpenClaw-style assistant using Codex for inference), self-hosted Firecrawl as the agent's web layer, Pi-hole for DNS, Tailscale, and Telegram as the input channel, all on a 2021 10th-gen i7 with 32GB bought used. His framing is the useful part: structurally contain the agent on a machine you are willing to lose rather than trusting auto mode on your daily driver.
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