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Re:Web Search API by wg0 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:42AM (#49975432)
Folks are heavily discounting cloudflare here and it would outshine AWS shortly and here's why:

1. Due to AI, most of the software is going to be personal apps.

2. For personal apps, (even most commercial SaaS) SQLite is all you need.

3. The Javascript ecosystem is huge in terms of components, libraries. ShadCN and what not.

4. Cloudflare has workers, durable objects which is isolated SQLite, D1 which is isolated SQLite

5. You can run crons, long running jobs, cloudlflare has emails.

6. Cloudlflare has best in class open weigh AI models as API for cheap.

7. Cloudflare has amazing CLI wrnagler but upcoming cf is purpose built for agentic workflows.

8. The built in AI assistant is really really good in guiding you how to setup, architecture and work around limitations etc.

Combine all the above, in next 5 years Cloureflare is going to get stronger with more workloads deployed to it then all three hyper clouds combined.

Re:Web Search API by jackdoe on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:07AM (#49975616)
none of the things you listed are needed for personal apps, for personal apps you dont need internet, at worse you just need dyndns.
Re:Web Search API by hobofan on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:46AM (#49976656)
9. None of this matters, because personal apps will use none of that because individual personal customers are way cheaper than organizations, and will use whatever is included in their subscriptions (e.g. ChatGPT Sites).
Re:Web Search API by NerdyDrone on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:30PM (#49982247)
hm, I wonder what powers ChatGPT Sites ;) it's Cloudflare all the way down.