Redbean
Infrastructure
self-hosted web server
SHOW HN2021
1,998points
249comments
#1of 2,533 in 2021
Top 1%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
52 positive, 71 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 29 critical, out of 156 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 32 for, 5 againstExecution: 6 for, 18 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive portability and cleverness of the single-file binary
From 3 comments
I just spent 30 minutes reading about this. I'm so shocked that I'm logging in to comment after 5 years of lurking. Justine has built a c library that allows you compile a binary…
hprx on HNThe short description is a bit too short; this is mind blowing! Redbean is a portable, single file executable webserver which also acts as a zip-file for the static content it…
ToJans on HNNice job, Justine. This level of excitement reminds me of the early days of Linux. I think it has the potential to go far.
shaggy8871 on HN
Objections
Only runs natively on x86; other platforms use an emulator
From 1 comment
TLDR: This is a packed file format that can look to the OS as being executable (for Windows/Linux/OSX). The code is x86 and so offers native performance on those processors. On…
TickleSteve on HN
Setup errors and crashes reported on several Linux and Mac systems
From 3 comments
Am I the only one having issues trying to get this working? The webserver starts just fine, but once I add the index.html with zip as in the example, it stops working. This is on…
safeaim on HNAs amazing as this is unfortunately it doesn't work for me and I am on Linux. I get bash: ./redbean.com: No such file or directory after chmod-ing. Maybe I am dumb but yeah.
thecodrr on HNOdd, I'm getting $ ./printimage.com image.jpg run-detectors: unable to find an interpreter for ./printimage.com
kidsil on HN
Requests
Auto-open browser on startup
From 1 comment
Just make sure you don't have another server running on :8080. I had syncthing running and kept getting some error whenever I tried to run redbean. The error didn't make much…
aembleton on HN
Questions
Whether it is limited to x86_64
From 1 comment
Presumably X86_64 only?
th0ma5 on HN
Alternatives named
Caddy
From 1 comment
Caddy is a single file web server as well :) https://caddyserver.com/ Admittedly they solve different usecases, where Redbean seems to want to serve a whole static site as a…
francislavoie on HN