This originally started as a personal project that I didn't intend to release. I know there are a number of other good apps in this space, but none of them work quite the way I want them to, so I decided to build one. Along the way it got good enough that I thought others might enjoy using it.

Luxury Yacht is FOSS, and I have no intention of ever charging money for it. It's been a labor of love, a great learning opportunity, and an attempt to try to give something back to the FOSS community that has given me so much.

A word of caution, in case you care about this sort of thing -- I wrote this with AI assistance. I am, first and foremost, a platform/infrastructure engineer, not a software developer. I've learned enough via tinkering and osmosis over the years to have a decent idea of how to write software, but it's not my main gig. I did my best to try to make sure the code isn't garbage, but you might look at it and disagree. I have no doubt that there's a lot of room for improvement, but it works, I think it has a pretty good feature set, and I'll keep iterating on it to make it better.

If you want to get a sense of what it can do without downloading and installing it, read the primer: https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/blob/main/docs/primer.md

Or, head to the Releases page to download the latest release: https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/releases

Oh, a quick note about the name. I wanted something that was fun and invoked the nautical theme of Kubernetes, but I didn't want yet another "K" name. A conversation with a friend led me to the name "Luxury Yacht", and I warmed up to it pretty quickly. It's goofy but I like it. Plus, it has a Monty Python connection, which makes me happy.