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Why isn't there an app for this

When RoboticLi first came to mind I was actually just looking for a cheap way of managing Virtual Private Servers for my freelancing customers. Because I was building Intelligent Automation robots on one of the bigger freelance marketplaces and all of my customers needed a small piece of a windows VPS.

All I needed was an app that would allow multiple clients to use the same VPS without being able to access each other's data. And every app that came close to the features I required was focussing on something unrelated. At the time it seemed easier to just create a web portal myself and let clients submit requests via a ticketing system.

Then the dreaming started (metaphorically, the idea for RoboticLi came to me in a dream) What if, how come, why, why, why.
And after some brainstorming, the idea was born to take core features from user isolation on a VPS, and a control panel that lets me run commands on the server.

One of the questions I asked myself was "Why isn't there an app for this".
And maybe that was my biggest motivator to start working on the project.

Of course, there are quite some differences between a (web)app for managing VPSs and a NoCode Intelligent Automation platform. And I considered the number of hours required to build a hosting platform, and the time it took to create a GUI to actually build the robots. Maybe it would take me a few days more. But would it be worth it?

I think it is.

, Founder of Icon for RoboticLi
RoboticLi
on June 2, 2022