Immich
A self-hosted photo and video backup platform with mobile auto-upload, albums, search and facial recognition.
Docker
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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.
Grafana: Open Observability Dashboards for Multiple Data Sources
Grafana suits teams that need one place to view metrics, logs, and traces. It offers dashboards, exploration, alerting, and mixed data sources, while requiring careful review of integrations, operations, and AGPL obligations.
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Backend.AI: A Containerized Cluster Platform for Multi-Tenant Compute
Backend.AI combines containerized sessions, resource scheduling, heterogeneous accelerators, and developer access tools for teams operating shared compute clusters. Evaluate its service dependencies, version requirements, deployment scope, and licensing before adoption.
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OpenTelemetry JavaScript: Adding Traces, Metrics, and Logs to Node.js
OpenTelemetry JavaScript helps JavaScript teams collect traces, metrics, and logs. Before adoption, check Node.js requirements, browser status, module formats, package compatibility, and v3 migration changes.
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Outline: A Self-Hostable Knowledge Base for Teams
Outline is an open-source team knowledge base focused on collaborative editing, search, permissions, integrations, and self-hosted deployment.
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LinkStack: Bring Multiple Links to Your Own Page
LinkStack is a self-hosted, open-source link-sharing platform for personal pages, creators, and organizations, with themes, users, analytics, and data export.
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Grist Core: A Relational Spreadsheet for Self-Hosted Workflows
Grist Core brings relational structure to a spreadsheet interface, with formulas, forms, views, APIs, and access rules. Adoption requires clarity about the open-source core and an operations plan for authentication, storage, backups, and upgrades.
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