Immich
A self-hosted photo and video backup platform with mobile auto-upload, albums, search and facial recognition.
Docker
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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
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Beszel: Centralized Server Monitoring with a Hub and Agents
Beszel collects metrics from host-based agents into a hub, with historical data, container statistics, and alerts. It suits people who need a central view of self-hosted systems, subject to environment-specific metric availability.
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QMReader: A Self-Hosted Workbench for Reusable RSS Reading
QMReader combines technical RSS feeds, bilingual translation, Chinese rewrites, comments, article-context AI chat, and public reading assets in a self-hosted workbench.
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CommaFeed: Keep RSS Reading on Your Own Server
CommaFeed is a self-hosted RSS reader built with Quarkus and React/TypeScript, offering OPML, APIs, multiple databases, and a responsive interface.
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Liferea: An RSS and Atom Reader for the Linux Desktop
Liferea is a GTK/GNOME desktop feed reader for organizing and browsing RSS and Atom subscriptions on Linux. Review its packaging, build-path considerations, synchronization needs, and known 2.0.2 issues before adoption.
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FeedMe: A Self-Hosted RSS Reader with AI Summaries
FeedMe is an MIT-licensed lightweight RSS reader that aggregates feeds and generates summaries through an LLM. It supports GitHub Pages, Vercel, Alibaba Cloud ESA Pages, and Docker, with deployment trade-offs to review.
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Humla: Local-First Meeting Notes for Mac
Humla is an open-source macOS meeting-notes app combining recording, transcription, speaker identification, summaries, cited Q&A, local models, and optional sync.
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