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Hoplyra is an open-source (MIT) dashboard for VPN on your own VPS infrastructure. Features:
Self-hosted. No signup. No SaaS backend.
Install:
git clone https://github.com/Linchevatel/Hoplyra.git
cd Hoplyra
sudo apt install make python3-venv podman podman-compose
make install
AI was used only for code review. AI was not used to write the code.
I'm just going to say that from my quick look across the site and code I would have a hard time believing that, for a variety of reasons. I suspect others will have a similar take.
The website looks AI generated to me as well. The style and especially the purple really give it that token AI look.
(Just pointing it out, not in a negative way, not implying anything)
Heavy agree with this, and that the source is shown in three locations(duplicate info is all over the page) as well as the heavy push into how fast deploying the software is, when that's not usually a metric anyone actually cares about as its a one and done setup