A serverless open souce forum tool

[timqian]

There are dozens of successful open-source forums tools like

• https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
• https://github.com/flarum/flarum
• https://github.com/discourse/discourse
• https://github.com/b3log/symphony

They all have similar features and lots of users and some of them are profitable

But there is no forum built upon serverless tech stacks

Benefits of serverless forum

• people don't need to maintain an instance
• totally free for small to middle-sized forum

[nc7s]

• a CRUD API for data ops
• static files in object storage
• which may require a builder to build and upload deltas on changes
• a single repo with config files (maybe also themes - and maybe not, with config specifying which repo of theme to use) will be sufficient then - real application files are retrieved from project repo when building
• what about data storage?

[timqian]

what about data storage?

dynamodb is my default choice when I need a serverless database. But I am open to better options

[nc7s]

price seems acceptable. ideally we can have a unified DB interface - not necessarily an ORM - and choose which underlying DB to use.