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Cal.diy is live on the lossless stack, with a calendar actually connected. Getting there meant discovering the tool we pointed readers at in July ships no Docker image at all — and then chasing an error message that blamed the user for a mistake we had made.
Michael StatonNine services for one search box — the heaviest bundle in the stack by tenfold. Getting it up meant discovering that Railway silently drops start-command arguments, which cost more time than the other eight services combined.
Michael StatonTwo GPs get one connector and 158 tools they can't tell apart — so the skill supplies the missing safety tiering. Then measuring the boards found three fields that look populated and aren't.
Michael StatonProject tracking joins the stack — and an agent now files work items into it over the API. Getting there meant learning that a 200 response from Plane means the proxy is alive, not that Plane works.
Michael StatonTwenty-one entries that only existed in a git directory are now a readable, linkable surface. Getting there cost four bugs worth writing down, including a content collection that reported zero entries while building perfectly.
Michael StatonA stakeholder at the-water-foundation couldn't log in or create an account. The invitation had been sent, accepted by the server, and written to a log file instead of an inbox. Twenty's email driver defaults to a setting that silently discards mail, and our own runbook called SMTP optional.
Michael StatonOutline's database now dumps weekly to R2, proven by forcing a run and reading the archive back. The plan that created it also quietly proposed bumping every Postgres in the project to 18, which would have taken them all down.
Michael StatonPaste an Outline share link now and it stays on lossless.at instead of flipping to a Railway hostname mid-click. Alongside it: a spec for the one-connector-per-client MCP, and a working prototype of its Skills plane built with no new infrastructure.
Michael Statonlossless.at/<client>/<tool> now opens the right thing for every managed client, replacing hostnames nobody could read. The AI connector link had to stay ugly, and we found out why by measuring rather than assuming.
Michael StatonReach's homebase went from one card to three. Getting there cost a phantom Docker tag and a Redlock deadlock that turns one bad boot into an infinite one — both now written into the runbook so the next client's Outline is a repeat, not a re-fight.
Michael Statonthe-water-foundation went from zero backups to five verified weekly pg_dump crons landing in a per-client Cloudflare R2 bucket — proven by forcing live runs and reading the objects back, not assumed.
Michael Statonthe-water-foundation now has a working Papermark VDR — the first in the stack. Getting there meant making an OSS repo build that imports 41 closed-source Enterprise modules it doesn't ship, then chasing a 404 through three middleware red herrings to the real culprit: the webhook host set equal to the app host.
Michael StatonThe client portal leaves the public marketing repo for a private submodule, and the address model gets decided on purpose: lossless.at/<client>/<service>. The crux is that MCP's OAuth won't tolerate a naive subpath proxy.
Michael Statonpalmer-ai.didi.sh now has a 'Your Knowledge Base' card pointing at the Outline instance — the one bookmarkable link per client keeps its promise as the stack grows.
Michael StatonThe stack's Hootsuite-killer is live at postiz.reach-edu.didi.sh: Postiz v2.22.1 deployed to the reach-edu Railway project with a full Temporal orchestration layer, after fighting through a search-attribute quota, a soft-deleted volume, Railway's injected PORT, and a session cookie that browsers refused to store.
Michael StatonThe per-client Twenty deployment runbook just ran a third time — for The Lossless Group's own CRM. Project creation to healthy /healthz in under ten minutes, zero new failure modes.
Michael Statonpalmer-ai's self-host stack grew its second bundle today: Docmost, the open-source Notion/Confluence alternative, deployed from upstream's compose in one pass and healthy in thirty seconds.
Michael StatonDocmost lasted four hours in the palmer-ai stack: gorgeous product, API keys locked behind Enterprise. We swapped in Outline the same evening — and found a Railway deploy trap worth its own delta entry.
Michael StatonThe whole client thesis rests on one motion — paste a URL, log in, done. Tonight it stopped being a design and became a working connection, after one proxy-config bug tried its best to stop us.
Michael StatonYou can't send a client a raw railway.app URL and expect trust — so now there's one branded, bookmarkable page per client: open your CRM, connect your AI, and a didi-account teaser for what's coming.
Michael StatonThe per-client self-host pattern stopped being a spec today — Reach University has its own Twenty CRM, its own database, its own project, and the first real record landed through the API within the hour.
Michael StatonClient #2's Twenty CRM went from nothing to real records in one sitting, executed from the runbook client #1 wrote — zero failed deploys, four real companies in the workspace by end of session.
Michael StatonA backup that hasn't been restored is a hope, not a backup — so before calling Phase 3 done, we pulled a dump out of R2, rebuilt a database from it, and found our API-written record sitting inside.
Michael Statoncore/ grew from two tools to five across eight weeks, adding three new categories. Then Cal.com went closed-source in April and we found out in July, which is the real story: a recommendation table is a perishable good.
Michael StatonThe self-host stack begins — three directories, two vendored tools, and a README carrying the full vendor-by-vendor savings case. The shape chosen on day one is the one still running four client stacks today.
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