MRTPlus
self-hosted · no subscription
A learning lab · est. on one small server

Software you own, not software you rent.

MRTPlus is a working lab for the post-SaaS world — where the tools you depend on live on hardware you control, under a license that doesn't expire when the invoice stops.

01 The ownership ledger
What you own
What you rent
+ Your data sits on your disk
Data lives in someone's cloud
+ One cost, paid once
A meter that never stops
+ The source code is yours to read
A black box you can't inspect
+ It works when the vendor is gone
It dies when the startup does
ledger balances in your favour 2 apps live · 0 subscriptions
02 What this lab is for

For fifteen years the default answer to "how should we run this?" was: rent it, monthly, from someone else. It was easy. It also quietly moved every tool, every file, and every workflow onto ground you didn't own.

MRTPlus tests the other path in the open. Each thing published here is something actually running — installed, hosted, and maintained on a single server, documented honestly including the parts that are annoying.

The method: use it in production first, write about it second. Nothing here is a review of software we haven't run.

The bias: toward tools you install once and keep — open source, self-hosted, and boring in the best way.

The proof: this page and the apps beside it are the experiment. You're looking at it.

03 Running on this box, right now
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Campfire · group chat
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Writebook · publishing
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This page · the lab notes
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