Abandoned Docker projects

Plume creates a branched copy of your Postgres database per preview deployment. Like Git branches but for data. Used in 4 production setups I know of. I built it because Neon's branching was expensive and Supabase didn't have it. The interesting engineering was the copy-on-write at the table level. I'm leaving because the company I built this for is shutting down and the use case at my new job doesn't need it.

Built Lumen over 14 months while freelancing. The idea was: drop a schema, get a production GraphQL API with auth, subscriptions, row-level security — no glue code. Got to ~600 stars, a few production users, and an OKR of "hit 1k stars then find a co-maintainer." I never hit the OKR. I took a full-time role in November, and after two months of trying to maintain it on nights and weekends, I let it go. The codebase is solid, the docs are good, the test suite is honest. Someone who wanted to go full indie on it would have a real head start.

Vessel schedules containerized tasks with cron syntax and DAG dependencies. Used to power my side project's data pipeline. I built it because AWS Batch was overkill and Airflow was too much. I'm leaving because I don't run side projects with data pipelines anymore. The scheduler works, the queue is solid, the UI is functional. The Docker socket handling is the part I'm most proud of.

Anvil unifies AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare under one command surface. I built it because I kept switching between clients with different cloud setups. It's not a wrapper — it's a meta-tool that translates your intent to the right provider. I left it when I took a job that uses AWS only. The community picked it up. There's a maintainer team of 3 now.

Tessera serves MBTiles files as vector tiles with custom Mapbox GL styles. Used it to build a hiking maps site for a national park. The interesting bit was the style compiler that takes a JSON style spec and emits optimized PMTiles. I'm leaving the maintainer role because the OSM ecosystem has moved on to PMTiles and the project would need a rewrite to stay current.

Saffron was my side project for 3 years. I built it because I wanted to send a weekly newsletter to my readers without anyone tracking opens. Pure SMTP, no analytics, no SaaS subscription. I was getting ready to shut it down when Marco from the community asked to take over. He's been shipping releases every two weeks since. The roadmap is now his.

Compass counts page views and unique visitors with zero cookies and zero fingerprinting. I built it because I was tired of Plausible's pricing for a hobby site. Compass was the lowest-effort tool I've ever maintained. A community member (an actual privacy researcher) took it over when I moved on. They've added geo-IP aggregation without compromising the privacy model.