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Self-hosting & cloud
Docker images, lightweight PaaS alternatives, VPS-friendly stacks, backups, object storage gateways, observability tweaks, and other infrastructure you could run yourself or alongside a VPS. Entries usually include setup docs or hosted landing pages—not generic “cloud strategy” punditry.
openGym - Self-Hosted Workout Tracker With Passkeys and a Muscle Map
openGym's .env.example ships with open signup and guest access switched on, so an instance on a public domain accepts new profiles until you set INVITEONLY and ALLOWGUEST=0.
Airbyte - Open-Source Data Movement for ELT Pipelines and AI Agents
Airbyte is an opensource platform for moving data between systems. Its GitHub repository states the scope in one line: "Opensource data movement for ELT pipelines and AI agents —...
PriceBuddy - Self-Hosted Price Tracker for Any Online Store
PriceBuddy bets its whole value on one hard problem: getting a reliable price off any shop page you throw at it. Most trackers handle Amazon and a handful of big retailers, then...
Postiz - Self-Hosted AI Social Media Scheduler
Postiz is "a social media management platform for scheduling, automating, and analyzing your content," covering fourteen destinations: Instagram, YouTube, Dribbble, LinkedIn,...
PicoShare - Minimalist Self-Hosted File Sharing
PicoShare is "a minimalist, selfhosted web app that makes it easy to share files on the web." You upload a file, you get a link, the link works. It does not transcode, it does not...
LibreDesk - Self-Hosted Omnichannel Customer Support Desk
Libredesk is "Open source, selfhosted customer support software for email, live chat, and WhatsApp." It is AGPL3.0 licensed — we read the LICENSE file to confirm, because the...
ntfy - HTTP-Based Push Notifications for Phone and Desktop
ntfy's pitch is one line and it is accurate: "Send push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST." No SDK, no client library, no account. You POST a string to a URL and...
Kopia - Cross-Platform Backup Tool with Encrypted Snapshots
Kopia describes itself as "a fast and secure opensource backup/restore tool that allows you to create encrypted snapshots of your data." It is Apache2.0 licensed, lists...
docker-volume-backup - Companion Container for Docker Volume Backups
The tagline is the whole product: "Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3, WebDAV, Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, Google Drive or SSH compatible storage." It is MPL2.0 licensed...
Umami - Privacy-Focused Self-Hosted Web Analytics
Umami is a selfhosted, privacyfocused web analytics application — a cookiefree alternative to Google Analytics with a dashboard you own. It is MIT licensed, which in this category...
Plausible Analytics - Privacy-First Web Analytics Platform
Plausible describes itself as "an open source, privacyfirst web analytics tool. Lightweight, cookiefree alternative to Google Analytics. Available in managed cloud or selfhosted...
Supabase - Open-Source Postgres Backend Platform
Supabase describes itself in five words: "Supabase is the Postgres development platform." Not a Firebase clone, not a database — a platform assembled around Postgres. The README...
PriceGhost - Self-Hosted Price Tracking for Online Products
PriceGhost is "a selfhosted price tracking application that monitors product prices from any website" — add a product URL, get notified when the price drops, hits your target, or...
NocoDB - Self-Hosted No-Code Database Platform
NocoDB calls itself "the fastest and easiest way to build databases online" — a spreadsheetstyle interface over a real SQL database, with grid, gallery, form, kanban and calendar...
Directus - Composable Backend and Headless CMS for SQL Data
Directus is "a realtime API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content" — you point it at an existing SQL database and it gives you a REST and GraphQL API plus an admin...
PocketBase - Open-Source Realtime Backend in One File
PocketBase is described by its own documentation as "an open source backend consisting of embedded database (SQLite) with realtime subscriptions," with builtin auth management, a...
DocuSeal - Open-Source Document Signing Platform
DocuSeal is "an open source platform that provides secure and efficient digital document signing and processing" — a WYSIWYG PDF formfield builder, automatic PDF eSignature,...
Coolify - Self-Hosted Deployment Platform for Apps and Databases
Coolify describes itself as "An opensource and selfhostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway." The mechanism is simple enough to state in one line: it "builds...