Immich
A self-hosted photo and video backup platform with mobile auto-upload, albums, search and facial recognition.
Docker
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THE SHORTLIST
Software worth a closer look
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n8n
A workflow automation platform with visual flows, code nodes and native AI capabilities that can be self-hosted.
Docker
Vaultwarden
A lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password manager for individuals and small teams that want control of their data.
Docker
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FROM THE NOTEBOOK
Ideas you can put to work
Practical guides, considered choices, and the details that make a difference.
Appwrite: An Open Platform for Backend Services and Web Hosting
Appwrite combines authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, realtime features, and Sites hosting for web, mobile, and AI applications. Self-hosting requires careful operational planning.
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Dokku: A Lightweight Application Platform for Your Own Server
Dokku is a Docker-powered PaaS for developers and small teams that want to self-host applications. Review OS, SSH, domain, and operational requirements before adoption.
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TRAWL: A Self-Hosted Challenge-Aware Scraping Engine
TRAWL provides a FlareSolverr-compatible API, browser-session caching, proxy escalation, and MCP tools for self-hosted scraping workflows. It may suit *arr users and automation operators, but deployment requires careful review of CAPTCHA limits, proxy trust, MITM certificates, and the v1.5.0 configuration migration.
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n8n: Visual Workflow Automation with Code Extensions
n8n is a fair-code platform for workflows and AI agents that can be self-hosted or used in the cloud. It suits technical teams connecting external systems, but licensing, connector scope, and production operations require review.
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Hunter Community: A Self-Hosted Financial AI Platform for Individual Investors
Hunter Community combines conversational financial research, local investment context, MCP extensibility, and quantitative workflows in a self-hosted project.
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bex: Bringing a Git Deployment Control Plane to Your Infrastructure
bex is an Apache-2.0 licensed, self-hosted PaaS for teams that want Git-based deployments and one control plane for people and coding agents. Its scope is broad, but the project explicitly says it is not ready for production workloads.
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Beyond the first launch.
Built to keep running.
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