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		lacampbell on June 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to avoid picking the wrong technology just bec... Why did you have to type that. Now in my free time there's a 50/50 chance I am going to waste minutes or even hours looking into the viability of running a postgres/sinatra/nginx app on a phone. Something about that appeals to me in a huge way. Showing people my "server room", etc etc.

ProblemFactory on June 7, 2017 | [–]

Attach the phone to a small weather balloon, and you can have a real "cloud hosted" setup.

hengheng on June 7, 2017 | | [–]

There's a bunch of httpd apps on the Play Store, many complete with database engines and all that.

fapjacks on June 7, 2017 | [–]

Plot twist: Run it from a flip phone.

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