[HN Gopher] Pico.sh - SSH powered services for developers
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Pico.sh - SSH powered services for developers
Author : TheTaytay
Score : 162 points
Date : 2025-04-02 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pico.sh)
(TXT) w3m dump (pico.sh)
| mrbluecoat wrote:
| > Upload your static site to us
|
| How do you prevent abuse, like illegal material?
| jkingsman wrote:
| This is the challenge. This is tiny and delightful, but most
| hosting systems are monsters from a compliance perspective not
| because of a hunger for bureaucracy but that content moderation
| is SUPER hard.
| shishcat wrote:
| you can easily find entire VMs for 2EUR/month on sites like
| LES
| Helithumper wrote:
| Could be useful to have a tool similar to
| https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0#moderation-ui
| Andoryuuta wrote:
| I'm not sure why it would be different from any other hosting
| provider. They do clarify what they consider abuse / forbidden
| content, and their operational policies though:
|
| [1]: https://pico.sh/abuse
|
| [2]: https://pico.sh/ops#code-of-content-publication
| ashishb wrote:
| And that's why no one can offer this sustainably for $2/month.
| There is a cost of policing for illegal stuff as well as
| outright terrible stuff that requires fair bit of effort.
| wongarsu wrote:
| Granted, the market for shared hosting has settled closer to
| $6, but OVH, Hetzner and Netcup all still offer shared
| hosting for $2/month, with a free domain on top. And all
| three are in this market for ages now. They limit you to
| static pages, PHP and a MySQL database, but you can do plenty
| of illegal stuff with that.
| rendx wrote:
| You can even get full 'root' on a virtual machine for that
| price, and plenty of webhosting options.
|
| https://lowendbox.com/blog/2-usd-vps-cheap-vps-
| under-2-month...
|
| For many years now I've been hosting my IRC bouncer on a
| $13/yr VPS at netcup and it has been more stable than some of
| my other VPSes.
| amelius wrote:
| My company blocks ssh. Is there a way to tunnel this through
| HTTP?
| chasil wrote:
| I have heard that SSH could be tunneled over DNS UDP packets.
|
| This looks like a decent article, will read later.
|
| https://medium.com/@rogergalo/learn-how-easy-is-to-bypass-fi...
| palata wrote:
| Not sure if it has to go that far. Probably it's just
| blocking port 22.
| palata wrote:
| I agree. Something like what GitHub offers?
| https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/troubleshooting-ss...
| unshavedyak wrote:
| Alright, i had plans to use Github (or maybe something Cloudflare
| ish) but your $2/m has me seriously interested. I'm reviewing
| now.
|
| I hate when i see fun side projects that cost the same as full
| subscriptions to other products. There's only a handful of $15/m
| services i "want" in my life.. it really raises the barrier to
| entry when i'm so aware and averse to subscription costs.
|
| Yet $2/m? Instantly sold on that price. It's a fun price, it
| looks like a fun product, it lines up perfectly for me. It's
| silly that the price has me almost more interested than the
| product. Love it
|
| Thanks for this, i plan to try it out!
| unshavedyak wrote:
| Bandwidth limitations has me chuckling though:
| https://pico.sh/faq#are-there-any-bandwidth-limitations
|
| Any thoughts on how the review will happen when that barrier is
| reached?
| wongarsu wrote:
| Traffic isn't actually that expensive outside of big clouds.
| No idea where pico is hosted, but Hetzner gives you
| "unlimited" 1Gps connections with a dedicated server, or a
| 10G uplink charged at $1.20/TB (plus a fixed monthly fee for
| the uplink itself).
| shishcat wrote:
| I have good reasons to believe this is hosted on Oracle's
| free tier. Apart from the fact that pinging pico.sh points
| to an Oracle IP, the 10TB limit is consistent with Oracle
| Free Tier's limit.
| wongarsu wrote:
| Good call. Oracle does charge somewhat reasonable
| $8.50/TB after the first 10TB/month. Despite my dislike
| of Oracle it's not a terrible choice for this until you
| get some serious traffic.
| qudat wrote:
| You are correct, we are also multi-cloud:
| https://pico.sh/regions
| iambrandonm wrote:
| Totally feel you on this and kudos to these guys, low pricing
| makes it so much easier to actually try something without
| second-guessing. I'm working on a similar philosophy with my
| own project, 99dev -- simple tools for indie devs at just
| $1/month. Starting with lightweight analytics (like a mini
| Plausible), but more tools are on the way. No bloat, just
| useful stuff for folks like us who are building things and
| watching our budgets.
|
| Really glad to see more projects like pico.sh embracing low
| cost, no frills, indie services. https://99.dev
| mxuribe wrote:
| How interesting! I'm excited by all the energy lately that i've
| seen around more text-based fun stuff, from Gemini to tilde
| communities to more TUIs/TUI apps, to this ssh powered set of
| services! Keep 'em coming!
| bayindirh wrote:
| pico.sh is not new by any means. I was using them ~3 years ago
| (or maybe even for longer), with their lists.sh service.
|
| After I opened my blog, they launched prose.sh, and rest of the
| services soon after, but since I settled on my blog, and didn't
| want to change horses, and they discontinued lists.sh, I had to
| part ways with them.
|
| I admire what they've built though, and wish them best of luck.
| jarbus wrote:
| I love this
| ctrlp wrote:
| This looks awesome. Well done.
| mountainriver wrote:
| Didn't Pico used to be a shell grep like search? Or was that
| another project?
| epscylonb wrote:
| And a minimal CSS framework.
| taylorbuley wrote:
| Pretty unrelated, but if you are a developer and don't have a
| lifetime SDF.org membership, you should.
| palata wrote:
| I had never heard of that. What's your use-case for it?
| codazoda wrote:
| Love the idea.
|
| There are a couple oddities I found in the UI.
|
| 1. When you sign up the prompt says "signup". I didn't know what
| it wanted. I finally just guessed username and that was right.
|
| 2. I couldn't get tokens to create (which they say are highly
| recommended). I hit c for create, entered a name, press enter.
| Nothing.
| ctippett wrote:
| I signed up for this awhile back when it was free, it's been
| hosting bibbidibobbidi.boo ever since. It's very neat.
| antoniomika wrote:
| And we're still free! Just added some payments to help keep
| things running smoothly and allow us to invest in more
| infrastructure. pgs (static sites) and tuns (tunneling) are
| both multi-region for example.
| whalesalad wrote:
| this is really cool but something I would want to self-host,
| especially for pastebin.
| codetrotter wrote:
| https://github.com/picosh/pico/tree/main/pkg/apps/pastes
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| https://github.com/picosh/pico/blob/main/cmd/pastes/ssh/main...
|
| These looks like they are the code for the pastebin.
|
| There's a bunch of other code related to their other services
| in that repo and in their other repos as well.
| antoniomika wrote:
| And we'd be happy for you too! All of our code/tools are open
| source and available here: https://github.com/picosh/pico
| qudat wrote:
| Co-Founder here, thanks for the interest in our micro-saas
| powered by SSH.
|
| Happy to answer any questions!
| hei-lima wrote:
| This is great! Congratulations.
| stouset wrote:
| I don't seem to be able to add multiple SSH public keys. When I
| try to create one, I paste my pub key and hit enter and... no key
| is added.
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