There is something strange happening in modern software development... We keep building increasingly sophisticated applications, but somehow, making them run is becoming increasingly complicated.

You need a framework... Then a package manager... Then a dependency manager for the package manager... A database server, a cache server, a queue worker, a build pipeline, a collection of extensions, a dozen environment variables, and occasionally a small sacrifice to the infrastructure gods....

And after all that, you can finally display a page saying "Hello World". Congratulations! But what happens when you just want to install a piece of software on your own hosting account and use it? What happens when your hosting provider doesn't give you SSH access? When you cannot install system packages? When Redis isn't available? When ImageMagick is disabled? And why should you need another monthly subscription just to perform a task that should be relatively straightforward?