What exactly do you mean by “sustainable”, paid/premium features? Ads? Subscription plans for users that ask you to host the server instead of self-hosting themselves?

Yes I understand FOSS is a lot of time and effort, thank you :-)

I did run docker, specifically the portainer interface, not just the docker itself. While it’s nice and easy to use, I felt like docker obscures things behind some abstractions, for example my native services store data simply as directories and files somewhere under /srv, while docker containers keep data somewhere in docker’s directory as some storage objects with randomly generated names.

I also completely lost control of my firewall, for example if I can just run iptables and see exactly which ports do what, I can easily read and understand line by line each firewall rule, when I use docker containers it’s all some gibberish to me, ports get opened and closed and mapped to container ports (I guess) without me ever touching iptables, and I have no idea what is happening with my server anymore.

So yes, I tried portainer and dropped it, if you do native packages and an android app in f-droid, let me know, I really like your project so far. I can even stand the docker thingy, but we need an android app with proper sync and caching, because not everyone has internet connection 24/7. We may want to run an app, sync with backend, then add entries during a flight. Browser won’t solve this.

I’m probably blind or something, but I don’t see a list of supported platforms anywhere on the website and in readme on github, also no “downlaods” page or section. It says it’s cross platform, but does it actually have a desktop version (windows/linux) or is it just a browser SPA, and does it have a dedicated android app?

Sorry don’t mean to be rude, I really wish it has a linux native app and an android app, hopefully in f-droid, if yes then it’s perfect, but for now it’s not clear to me.