“we're a few weeks in of tens of thousands of people like seeing it and like it still is kind of a hassle to get it up and running making it where it's you know you copy and paste this one literally single command into the command line and then it walks you through everything else like that's sort of to me is like the go standard for a self hostable”

Tens of thousands of viewers will still bounce without one-command setup

Despite tens of thousands of repo views, Josh admits Maybe is 'still kind of a hassle to get up and running.' He names Basecamp's Campfire release as the gold standard: paste one command into a terminal and a wizard walks you through the rest. For developer tools, deployment ease IS the product surface — measure time-to-first-success from a fresh machine, not your already-configured laptop.