beep

a legendary land of lowercase lovers.

a self-hosted "social-media-oriented" mini-blogger.

technically made because i wanted to mess around with rss, but i also wanted a teensy little blog/slow-paced-chat-app for myself and my friends.

hosting

you will need a postgresql database somewhere, along with v to compile beep:

copy the config.maple as config.real.maple

edit config.real.maple to set the url, port, username, password, and database name.

config.real.maple also has settings to configure the feel of your beep instance, post length, username length, welcome messages, etc etc.

do not put your secrets in config.maple. it is intended to be pushed to git as a "template config." instead, use config.real.maple if you plan to push anywhere. it is gitignored already, meaning you do not have to fear about your secrets not being kept a secret.

git clone https://github.com/emmathemartian/beep
cd beep
v -prod .
./beep config.real.maple

then go to the configured url to view (default is http://localhost:8008).

if you do not have a database, you can either self-host a postgresql database on your machine, or you can find a free one online. i use and like neon.tech, their free plan is pretty comfortable for a small beep instance!