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I think creating first party apps makes sense for the core features we are directly supporting, but we are being diligent in picking which features we think we can do exceptionally well and provide some unique value, while letting existing, quality incumbent apps own there respective spaces. Case in point with Buddy Backup. With something like photos, I just don't know if we could genuinely do better both short and long term than some of the options out there already. But we do think there's are some things we can do with them to have tighter knit integrations. More soon!

I'm happy we have met some of the need cases out there. There are more items we will be hitting shortly with Buddy Backups and then VMs as major items, along with more things in the UI to slowly require less TrueNAS UI. For me, I'll say the happy state will be after Buddy Backups and VMs. Also with the updates, TrueNAS should be pushing our fix on our Baba Yaga (websocat service issue) hopefully fixed in 25.10.7. We'll have the basics covered, and we can focus on addressing the need for the TrueNAS web UI. We can also then continue to build on all existing features, adding more depth to them.

I would only suggest fast ssds for metadata/special vdevs. The downside is that if that vdev fails you lose all the data on your pool regardless of redundancy. This is why I suggest a minimum of a double mirror for metadata/special vdevs. I've also heard that its not very useful for unless you have 10s of thousands of folders inside tens of thousands of folders. another drawback is that currently there is no good way to rebalance vdevs if you add the metadata vdev after already having data on your pool. however in the future once truenas 26 or 27 (I forget which) rolls out it should be possible.

Buddy backups were moved to a future version 1.1 release. you can check out our roadmap here https://docs.hexos.com/blog/2025-11-26 Its always a good idea to practice the 3-2-1 backup strategy You are welcome to voice questions/concerns/observations from the standpoint of this being a production product

There will definitely be more game servers.

PeaNUT shows you your UPS's info. However at this time UPS setup and graceful shutdown will still have have to be configured via the truenas ui It's still on our list of things to add to HexOS

Yes we left beta with the 1.0 release a couple months back

We can't solve the world's problems or be their nanies. We give or customers options and they choose if they want to use them or not.

Yes, still the plan. The UI is already mobile responsive, so it works well on phones, but we definitely plan to have an app in the future. Aside from being a native app to use to navigate the UI/UX, there are some other features we're thinking about that would be uniquely available through the app that wouldn't apply to simple browser-based management. Not ready to reveal all of that just yet.