I switched to Podman on Windows and found it less laggy, and it works fine for local development. I'm sure I'm missing some features, but as Docker continues to struggle to generate revenue, the open-source option will be important to an increasingly large part of the industry.

FYI- If I was docker, I'd stand up some bare metal hosting (i.e., a Docker Cloud) designed around making it easier for novice developers to take containers and turn them into web applications, with a product similar to Supabase built around this cloud to let novice developers quickly prototype and launch apps without learning how to do deployments in more sophisticated clouds. Supabase and AI vibe coders pair well, but the hole in the market is vibe coders who want to launch a web app vibe coded but don't know how to deploy containers to the cloud without a steep learning curve. It keeps many vibe coders trapped in AIO vibe coding platforms like Lovable and AI Studio.

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embedding-shape 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> but the hole in the market is vibe coders who want to launch a web app vibe coded but don't know how to deploy containers to the cloud without a steep learning curve

Is it really a hole? I'm not the target user, but I keep coming across "Build & deploy your own platform/service/application with VibeCodingLikeThereIsNoTomorrow" and similar, maybe new one every week or so.

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godzillabrennus 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Seems like its a hole in the market if new services are cropping up. If there wasn't a hole then established clouds would have this. I don't have to think if I want a virtual machine booted with Ubuntu. I can do that in any cloud. How many have vibe coding support to launch containers that work locally in a cloud so they are accessible as a website? How many of those have a build process that does security checks and helps patch the code and automates building browser tests to verify the functionality keeps working (or kicks it back to the coding agent to fix)? Basically, the last 10% of the vibe coding a web app locally that isn't automated. This is a big opportunity for a semi established vendor like Docker that a startup would need users and capital (for bare metal) to fix. Two things that a Docker has at their disposal.

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embedding-shape 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Those seems like such basic and tablestake features of such a platform, that I've assumed they all do something like that already. Is that not the case? Is it vibecoders who aren't programmers who are building these services or what's going on?

	▲	godzillabrennus 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, vibe coders are telling prompts to build web apps in IDEs like Windsurf/Antigravity, and it sets up the local environment, but getting that from local to web is still a pain point. It's a hole in the market with potential for a firm like Docker that needs to monetize without upsetting its community. Remember, vibe coders are more enthusiasts than professionals. Check out /r/vibecoding on Reddit for an idea of the general market that would use something like this.