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Wiredoor: Self-Hosted Ingress with SSL and VPN
Wiredoor is a self-hosted ingress-as-a-service platform that exposes private services over the internet via a WireGuard-powered reverse VPN — SSL included. It's a self-hostable Ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternative with IoT and Kubernetes support.
Docs (suitenumerique): Open-Source Collaborative Editor
Docs is an open-source collaborative text editor built with Django and React, designed as a Notion or Google Docs alternative for organizations that want self-hosted data ownership. MIT licensed, real-time with live cursors and offline editing, with optional AI writing assistance.
Thymer: Smart Editor for Thoughts and Planning
Thymer is a browser-based planning and note-taking tool that combines outlining, task management, and structured planning in one editor — developer-style features (command palette, split panels, keyboard shortcuts) with end-to-end encryption and self-hosting options. Positioned as an IDE for thoughts rather than a shopping-list task manager.
Piku: The Tiniest PaaS You've Ever Seen
Piku is a tiny self-hosted PaaS that lets you git-push to deploy to your own servers — a minimal Heroku-style experience with no containers required. Under 2000 lines of Python, runs on any Linux server.
Building a NAS with ZFS and AFP/Samba for Time Machine
A guide to building a NAS (Network Attached Storage) with ZFS and AFP/Samba configured as a Time Machine backup target — covering ZFS pool setup, share configuration, and macOS Time Machine integration. The self-hosted alternative to iCloud or Time Capsule for Mac backups.
Rhasspy — Offline Private Voice Assistant
Rhasspy is a fully offline, privacy-first voice assistant framework supporting many human languages — no cloud required. Designed for Home Assistant integration and runs entirely on local hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
Canarytokens Docker — Self-Hosted Honeytokens
Thinkst's Canarytokens Docker setup lets you self-host your own canarytoken server — tripwires that alert you when someone accesses a file, URL, or credential they shouldn't know about. The DIY version of Thinkst's hosted canary service.
YunoHost: Self-Hosted Server for Everyone
YunoHost is an open-source server OS that makes self-hosting web apps as simple as clicking install — Nextcloud, Gitea, Mastodon, and 100+ others available in one catalog. It handles DNS, SSL, user management, and backups automatically, dramatically lowering the barrier to self-hosting.
Running Your Own AI Image Generator with Latent Diffusion
A practical guide to running latent diffusion image generation locally — no credits, no limits, full control. Requires a Linux system, CUDA GPU (tested on RTX 3090), and 32GB RAM. From August 2022, right before Stable Diffusion made this accessible to everyone.
FauxPilot: Open-Source GitHub Copilot Server
FauxPilot is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to GitHub Copilot that runs Salesforce's CodeGen models locally via Triton Inference Server. Built in response to privacy concerns about Copilot sending code to OpenAI's servers.
Dashy: Self-Hosted Personal Dashboard
Dashy is an open-source, self-hosted personal homepage and service dashboard — a customizable start page for your homelab or self-hosted services with widgets, status checks, and icon integration. Popular in the homelab and self-hosted communities.
abcdesktop.io: Cloud Native Desktop
abcdesktop.io is a cloud-native desktop environment running on Kubernetes — a full web-accessible desktop with Linux applications delivered via browser. Think VDI built on containers rather than VMs.
Home Lab Beginners Guide: Hardware
A beginner's hardware guide to setting up a home lab — covers server options (used enterprise gear vs. mini PCs), networking basics (managed switches, VLANs), and storage. Entry point to the homelab community's approach to learning infrastructure hands-on.
GPT-J: Self-Hosted Open-Source LLM
A guide to running GPT-J, EleutherAI's open-source GPT-3 analog, in Docker — a 2022 snapshot of what self-hosting a large language model looked like before the Llama era democratized this further. Early example of the open-weight model movement.
Kibitzr: Self-Hosted Web Page Monitoring
Kibitzr is a self-hosted web monitoring and notification tool — watch pages for changes, parse content with CSS/XPath, run bash/Python transforms, and route alerts to Slack or email. Configured in YAML and deployable on minimal hardware.
Netmaker: WireGuard Network Automation
Netmaker automates the creation of fast, secure, distributed virtual networks using WireGuard — with an admin UI, access control, private DNS, and support for mesh, site-to-site, and Kubernetes networking. More featureful than Headscale, trades simplicity for capability.
Headscale: Self-Hosted Tailscale Control Server
Headscale is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server — the missing piece that lets you run a fully private Tailscale network without depending on Tailscale's managed infrastructure. The self-sovereignty option for Tailscale users.