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Work · November 28, 2025

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Bodge.app – μFaaS for hacked-together personal tools and small projects

This is a little side project I've been working on for the last few months. It's a service hosting Lua scripts behind static HTTP endpoints in a fully sandboxed environment. It's something I've built to scratch my own itch and now I'm launching a free public beta to see if it's something that anyone else also finds useful. My first professional job was for a company building an industrial IoT platform who's most unique feature was their Lua-based scripting platform. I ended up loving Lua so much that at my next job, at SmartThings, I ended up being the main instigator who made the Lua-based…

Bodge.app – μFaaS for hacked-together personal tools and small projects launched on November 28, 2025 with 8 votes, #1,383 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

No YAML files, no Docker, no build pipelines. Write a script, click a button. Plain old HTTP (S) requests and responses. The rest, you decide. Flat subscription pricing, no surprise bills. Everything you actually need included. Quick and dirty server-side scripting without the hassle. From one lazy efficient dev tofrom bodge.app

In the maker’s words, at launch

This is a little side project I've been working on for the last few months. It's a service hosting Lua scripts behind static HTTP endpoints in a fully sandboxed environment. It's something I've built to scratch my own itch and now I'm launching a free public beta to see if it's something that anyone else also finds…

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