Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay (www.servbay.com)

🤖 AI Summary
ServBay is a one-click local development platform for macOS that bundles web servers, language runtimes, databases, mail, PKI, reverse proxies/tunnels and even an integrated LLM runtime (via Ollama). It installs and runs multiple versions side-by-side (PHP 5.6–8.5, Python 2.7/3.5–3.14, Node.js 12–23, MySQL 5.1–9.1, MariaDB 10.4–11.5, PostgreSQL 10–16, MongoDB 5–8, Redis, memcached, etc.), provides GUI and CLI management, and offers project-level runtime configs so each project can pin its own language/database versions. Built-in services include DNS that lets you use non-existent domains/TLDs locally with free SSL issuance, ACME support (Let’s Encrypt, ZeroSSL, Google Trust Services) + auto-renewal, a PKI for CA, S/MIME and code/document signing, a full mail stack with STARTTLS/SSL, SMTP relay and SpamAssassin, and reverse-proxy/tunnel support (Ngrok, FRP, Pinggy.io, Oray). For AI/ML and dev teams this matters because it reduces “works on my machine” drift, speeds onboarding, and gives lightweight isolation without Docker’s overhead or Homebrew’s system-level changes. The Ollama integration makes it straightforward to run local LLMs (qwen, llama, etc.) alongside databases and web services for data pipelines and model-backed apps. ServBay emphasizes resource efficiency, multi-instance concurrency, easy log/debugging, and unified configuration for team reproducibility—appealing for legacy maintenance, multi-stack freelancing, and fast prototyping of ML-infused services.
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