Everyone builds now. what about my mom?

My mom's name is Jane. She is in her mid 70s, used to be a nurse in a children's ER, and today she is the best grandma in the world, one of the best people I know and one of my best friends.

She is also pretty good with technology. I don't mean she is about to switch to Ubuntu. But she can set up a Zoom, send emails, use a password manager, set up MFA, share Dropbox folders, send photos around, and do all the normal stuff people actually need a computer for. What she does not know is what Git is. Or DNS. Or an env var. Or a deploy. And why would she?

We are entering this weird new world where everyone can build things. Not because everyone suddenly became a developer, but because the tools are getting good enough that you can just ask for what you want and get something back. So why should my mom be left behind? What happens if I hand her Claude Code?

Maybe she builds a small website or app. Maybe it is a game for the grandkids, a web app to help her with one of the many charities she is involved in, or something else. She would just ask for it. I have no idea what she'd make, and that is sort of the point.

The building part is starting to become possible for normal people. The putting-it-online part is still ridiculous.

So the obvious answer is: set up her site on my Coolify box. Except no. Coolify is great, I love it, but it is not for my mom. Neither is Vercel. Neither is Netlify. Neither is most of this stuff, even the parts everyone calls "easy." Easy for us is still weird as hell for normal people.

You still have to understand what a project is. What a build is. What a domain is, and what it means to point one somewhere. Why something works on your computer but not online. Why the logs are red. Why some random secret key is suddenly missing. Why the site needs to be rebuilt. None of this is hard once you know it. But you have to know it.

The words were invented by engineers, and the tools mostly stayed engineer-shaped.

What I want is much dumber. I want my mom to make something in Claude Code and publish it. That is it. Everything underneath, the server, the firewall, the whatever, should be my problem and never hers.

She should just get the boring basics. A place to put the thing. A way to update it. A simple view of whether anyone actually looked at it.

That is the whole idea. I am calling this project Boring Ops, which is a stupid name because I actually love ops.

And yes, I know there are tools for this already. Website builders, no-code platforms, vibe coding things, whatever. Some of them are pretty great. But I am not trying to write a market report. I want to build something for fun that teaches me something new. I like ops, and I want to learn more about virtualization, KVM, VPNs, and all the pieces around them. I just need an excuse.

Anyone should be able to host a site, app or project. The test is simple. Can my mom use it?

Of course I have one little problem I need to solve first.