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Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

656 points by techindex 7y ago

k-godwin 7y ago
Congrats on launching. Search could use some work: - Search for Bot, get a bunch of unrelated results. - Search for Email, get accounting/translation/etc tools. - Search for Accounting, seems to work correctly.
edf13 7y ago
Nice list - not sure the screenshots add a great deal though.
- woodrowbarlow 7y ago
  agreed. they're just screenshots of each project's homepage. not a single screenshot of the actual software.
omarhaneef 7y ago
I was going to say this really needs to be sorted by category. Then I noticed under filter was categories. So, actually, its perfect.
leemailll 7y ago
the screenshots are a nice touch, but I still prefer https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
- techindex 7y ago
  It's the same list, just searchable, with some extra meta information scraped from the github repos and the project websites
- woodrowbarlow 7y ago
  the screenshots are all just a screenshot of whatever the project's listed homepage is. not a single screenshot of the actual software. these screenshots are pretty useless.
recrudesce 7y ago
Website constantly times out for me, stuff doesn't load etc. Not sure if that's because of traffic due to this post or not.
- techindex 7y ago
  Definitely the traffic. Wasn't expecting the front page. Working on it now.
  - MiroF 7y ago
    Is the site self-hosted?
    - jannes 7y ago
      That's not what people use the term "self-hosted" for. It doesn't really apply to websites that you created yourself. It rather applies to off-the-shelf software that you use as an alternative to SaaS offerings.
      - ricardbejarano 7y ago
        Perhaps we need a new term or two to distinguish between "services I provide through providers" and "services I provide with my own metal" (except ISP and power, 'cause I run my services but I'm not buying a power plant). At the moment people, myself included, use "self-host" for both.
  - ricardbejarano 7y ago
    I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free. Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
    - jagged-chisel 7y ago
      Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?
biermic 7y ago
reddit.com/r/selfhosted might like this
oefrha 7y ago
From https://selfhostedsource.tech/about https://selfhostedsource.tech/about: > Lucid index sources it's data from curated lists of software compiled by volunteers. The specific lists used are: > - Awesome Self Hosted[1] > - Awesome SysAdmin[2] [1] https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted [2] https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin
- unixhero 7y ago
  https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
- koheripbal 7y ago
  My biggest factor in choosing an Open Source Software platform is the size * activity of the community. I think it would be a huge improvement to give me a sense of whether the product is well supported. There are a few reasons for this... 1. I want to choose an OSS that will have security vulnerabilities resolved in a timely fashion. 2. I want the product to keep up with the times and changing landscape. 3. I want to be able to converse usefully in a forum to resolve issues. 4. I don't want to search for a new replacement product and undergo a migration because all the devs have abandoned the project in x years.
  - oefrha 7y ago
    I’m not OP.
  - techindex 7y ago
    Makes sense. What would you want to see in that regard beyond what's already on the site? It currently shows last commit and release date, and that date is green for projects with recent releases...
    - koheripbal 7y ago
      Some sense of how widely adopted the software is. There is a critical mass required for me to commit to an OSS. Before that critical mass the products are usually poorly maintained and full of bugs and security holes.
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m_fayer 7y ago
I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of any tooling that would let them set these things up quickly and reliably. I fantasize about running a little consultancy that would set up and maintain a tailored package of self-hosted OSS software for such small businesses. But I haven't actually studied whether there's a workable business model to be had, or whether there's enough quality self-hosted software out there to adequately cover the needs of most small businesses. I'm curious if HN thinks this could be a viable business...
- jotm 7y ago
  Sounds like a good idea to me. Most people would go with the big company in my experience, but your niche is huge anyway. WPEngine seems to be doing alright still (I remember thinking no way would anyone pay for just WordPress hosting... I was wrong), as are the many small website/app/hosting providers/consultancies.
  - lioeters 7y ago
    > WPEngine seems to be doing alright still They raised $250m a couple years ago, and have been acquiring smaller companies like theme shops, local site management tool based on Docker and Electron, etc. They've got a mature platform suitable for businesses, and it looks like they have a very healthy growth trajectory. On the other hand, for me they're becoming the "big company" in your description, and I'd prefer a self-hosted or at least open-source solution.
- ridruejo 7y ago
  https://bitnami.com/stacks https://bitnami.com/stacks helps quite a bit (disclaimer, I am the cofounder)
  - LeifCarrotson 7y ago
1234ideclare 7y ago
Looks like the content tiles/cards are overflowing over the pagination and footer, fwiw. On Chrome on Android 10.
marban 7y ago
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a Yelp-like OSS?
erulabs 7y ago
This is _awesome_! I'll be absolutely adding these to our Template store over at https://KubeSail.com https://KubeSail.com (YC S19). I use FreshRSS, BitWarden and Firefox-sync all the time on my pile of Raspberry PI's at home! Very excited to show off some awesome home-cluster utilities we're working on soon that will make self-hosting these kinds of tools a breeze! Great work on the site!
gramakri 7y ago
My company (cloudron.io) provides an App Store for self-hosted apps. We have an app store listing page which has the description and screenshots of each app. https://cloudron.io/store/index.html https://cloudron.io/store/index.html if you want to take a look. But we have this only for apps that we have packaged/maintain. That said, the layout of your site is very nice! How does one get new projects added to the list? (For example, we would like to have Cloudron itself listed there).
jamil7 7y ago
Really cool list, some stuff I hadn't seen, thanks for posting.
yeswecatan 7y ago
Great list. I started using Firefly to track my finances back in October. Loving it so far.
- MrZander 7y ago
  How well does it integrate with other financial services? I currently just use Mint because it's the only app that can consistently pull in all my accounts into one place.
  - computermagic 7y ago
    would love a replacement for Mint but never find anything that doesn't require a lot of extra work
  - yeswecatan 7y ago
    It has the ability to import data, but it's not perfect. The author actually discourages using it: https://docs.firefly-iii.org/importing-data/csv#best-practices https://docs.firefly-iii.org/importing-data/csv#best-practic...
anderspitman 7y ago
This looks really nice. In principle, I'm a big advocate of self-hosting (one of my services is even on this list). In practice, it just doesn't work for me. Once I get beyond 2-3 services it's just too much hassle to keep track of everything. The key realization for me is that I don't actually care too much where the software is running, or who is running it for me. What I do care about is a avoiding vendor lock-in. As long as I have a reasonable escape hatch if my service company starts doing things I don't like, that's good enough. This keeps them honest. My issue with the current crop of monoliths like Google services is that there's no obvious migration path if you get fed up with them, so you're pretty much stuck with them no matter how crappy their software or customer service is/gets. That's why I think something like sandstorm.io or cloudron is the future of self-hosting, at least in the near future. Maybe eventually we'll have a substrate of simple protocols and practices that will make it reasonable to manage everything yourself, but we're not there yet.
- bshipp 7y ago
  I found docker was perfect for self-hosting services with relative ease. upgrades are self-contained, security is simplified behind a reverse proxy like nginx, and there are very few dependency conflicts to worry about. I've got about 40 containers running at any given time and barely think about them at all.
  - BrandoElFollito 7y ago
    Exactly my thought and setup. I used to install and upgrade everything myself until I discovered docker and docker hub. Together with watchtower I have zero maintenance on the versions and everything updates automatically.
- heavyset_go 7y ago
  > Once I get beyond 2-3 services it's just too much hassle to keep track of everything. Docker Swarm shines in this regard because it's easy to setup, and its simplicity allows you to just forget about it. I run 30+ services behind a reverse proxy for personal use and don't need to keep track of anything.
bullen 7y ago
The biggest problem for me (that make multiplayer games that are latency sensitive) is that you can't get self hosted global presence. Otherwise my stack is completely self made and can run on a Raspberry: http://github.com/tinspin http://github.com/tinspin
- jlg23 7y ago
  > self hosted global presence. Could you elaborate what that is supposed to mean?
  - bullen 7y ago
    I have one server in the center of every major population cluster; Taiwan, Iowa and Belgium, in order to self host those I would need a apartment/building with >1GB internet in all those places.
jlg23 7y ago
Awesome, thanks a million. Working for a privacy-concious NGO, this (not the screenshot part) is a nice starting point for sw-evaluation.
marknadal 7y ago
This looks awesome! Would you be willing to add my project (10K+ GitHub stars)? https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun It is a self-hosted Open Source alternative to Firebase, with graph features, and fully decentralized. It is used in production by HackerNoon and other sites with millions of users.
hkon 7y ago
Thanks for this! I get inspired to host my own stuff!
rjakobsson 7y ago
Perfect, this is really nice! Love the highres screenshots!
soumyadeb 7y ago
Awesome list - thanks for preparing this. Shameless plug: Would you be open to listing our project Rudder, an open-source Segment alternative. https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/ https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/. We were on HN recently
badrequest 7y ago
Why is something like this included? https://selfhostedsource.tech/p/algorithms https://selfhostedsource.tech/p/algorithms Am I meant to put this software on a computer and run it 24/7? Why?
- techindex 7y ago
  You've stumbled on the python list: https://lucidindex.com/python https://lucidindex.com/python It's not 'technically' part of selfhostedsource, but there's one database shared between selfhostedsource and lucidindex so it's pretty easy to get results from other lists Lucid Index will eventually index all the 'awesome' lists, but there are a few others already functioning here: https://lucidindex.com https://lucidindex.com
  - badrequest 7y ago
    Ah, this makes much more sense, thank you for the clarification. :)
Seb-C 7y ago
This is a great and interesting idea. The search could use a bit of tuning. I only found a lot of unrelated stuff by searching for "feed" and "rss" .
Can_Not 7y ago
I think something like this, but for lambda and cloud run would also be cool.
ronyfadel 7y ago
Neat! I’m wondering if you’re looking to monetize this, and how? I’m working on a curated list of [not software] and wondering about how I can monetize it.
- techindex 7y ago
  I have a link to one of my other projects on the site - https://duetapp.com https://duetapp.com Beyond that, I don't really have any specific plans to monetize.
casca 7y ago
For ease of setting up self-hosted apps, Yunohost (https://yunohost.org https://yunohost.org) is less polished than Cloudron (https://cloudron.io https://cloudron.io) but is free. There's also Sandstorm (https://sandstorm.io https://sandstorm.io) which had funding at some point and was looking slick, but it's not clear if development is continuing.
forlorn 7y ago
Bugreport: You have 2 different 'Heimdall's leading to the same page. Not sure what went wrong but still: https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted?search=heimdall&list=self-hosted https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted?search=heimdall&li...
JackPoach 7y ago
Bitrix24 isn't on the list, even though self hosted editions are available since 2008 - https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/ https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/ Am I blind or there is no 'Submit' section on the website?
- oefrha 7y ago
  See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713048.
OrgNet 7y ago
no facial recognition?

656 points by techindex 7y ago

Congrats on launching. Search could use some work: - Search for Bot, get a bunch of unrelated results. - Search for Email, get accounting/translation/etc tools. - Search for Accounting, seems to work correctly.

edf13 7y ago

Nice list - not sure the screenshots add a great deal though.

woodrowbarlow 7y ago
agreed. they're just screenshots of each project's homepage. not a single screenshot of the actual software.

omarhaneef 7y ago

I was going to say this really needs to be sorted by category. Then I noticed under filter was categories. So, actually, its perfect.

leemailll 7y ago

the screenshots are a nice touch, but I still prefer https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

techindex 7y ago
It's the same list, just searchable, with some extra meta information scraped from the github repos and the project websites
woodrowbarlow 7y ago
the screenshots are all just a screenshot of whatever the project's listed homepage is. not a single screenshot of the actual software. these screenshots are pretty useless.

recrudesce 7y ago

Website constantly times out for me, stuff doesn't load etc. Not sure if that's because of traffic due to this post or not.

techindex 7y ago
Definitely the traffic. Wasn't expecting the front page. Working on it now.
- MiroF 7y ago
  Is the site self-hosted?
  - jannes 7y ago
    That's not what people use the term "self-hosted" for. It doesn't really apply to websites that you created yourself. It rather applies to off-the-shelf software that you use as an alternative to SaaS offerings.
    - ricardbejarano 7y ago
      Perhaps we need a new term or two to distinguish between "services I provide through providers" and "services I provide with my own metal" (except ISP and power, 'cause I run my services but I'm not buying a power plant). At the moment people, myself included, use "self-host" for both.
- ricardbejarano 7y ago
  I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free. Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
  - jagged-chisel 7y ago
    Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?

biermic 7y ago

reddit.com/r/selfhosted might like this

oefrha 7y ago

From https://selfhostedsource.tech/about https://selfhostedsource.tech/about: > Lucid index sources it's data from curated lists of software compiled by volunteers. The specific lists used are: > - Awesome Self Hosted[1] > - Awesome SysAdmin[2] [1] https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted [2] https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin

unixhero 7y ago
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
koheripbal 7y ago
My biggest factor in choosing an Open Source Software platform is the size * activity of the community. I think it would be a huge improvement to give me a sense of whether the product is well supported. There are a few reasons for this... 1. I want to choose an OSS that will have security vulnerabilities resolved in a timely fashion. 2. I want the product to keep up with the times and changing landscape. 3. I want to be able to converse usefully in a forum to resolve issues. 4. I don't want to search for a new replacement product and undergo a migration because all the devs have abandoned the project in x years.
- oefrha 7y ago
  I’m not OP.
- techindex 7y ago
  Makes sense. What would you want to see in that regard beyond what's already on the site? It currently shows last commit and release date, and that date is green for projects with recent releases...
  - koheripbal 7y ago
    Some sense of how widely adopted the software is. There is a critical mass required for me to commit to an OSS. Before that critical mass the products are usually poorly maintained and full of bugs and security holes.

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m_fayer 7y ago

I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of any tooling that would let them set these things up quickly and reliably. I fantasize about running a little consultancy that would set up and maintain a tailored package of self-hosted OSS software for such small businesses. But I haven't actually studied whether there's a workable business model to be had, or whether there's enough quality self-hosted software out there to adequately cover the needs of most small businesses. I'm curious if HN thinks this could be a viable business...

jotm 7y ago
Sounds like a good idea to me. Most people would go with the big company in my experience, but your niche is huge anyway. WPEngine seems to be doing alright still (I remember thinking no way would anyone pay for just WordPress hosting... I was wrong), as are the many small website/app/hosting providers/consultancies.
- lioeters 7y ago
  > WPEngine seems to be doing alright still They raised $250m a couple years ago, and have been acquiring smaller companies like theme shops, local site management tool based on Docker and Electron, etc. They've got a mature platform suitable for businesses, and it looks like they have a very healthy growth trajectory. On the other hand, for me they're becoming the "big company" in your description, and I'd prefer a self-hosted or at least open-source solution.
ridruejo 7y ago
https://bitnami.com/stacks https://bitnami.com/stacks helps quite a bit (disclaimer, I am the cofounder)
- LeifCarrotson 7y ago

1234ideclare 7y ago

Looks like the content tiles/cards are overflowing over the pagination and footer, fwiw. On Chrome on Android 10.

marban 7y ago

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a Yelp-like OSS?

erulabs 7y ago

This is _awesome_! I'll be absolutely adding these to our Template store over at https://KubeSail.com https://KubeSail.com (YC S19). I use FreshRSS, BitWarden and Firefox-sync all the time on my pile of Raspberry PI's at home! Very excited to show off some awesome home-cluster utilities we're working on soon that will make self-hosting these kinds of tools a breeze! Great work on the site!

gramakri 7y ago

My company (cloudron.io) provides an App Store for self-hosted apps. We have an app store listing page which has the description and screenshots of each app. https://cloudron.io/store/index.html https://cloudron.io/store/index.html if you want to take a look. But we have this only for apps that we have packaged/maintain. That said, the layout of your site is very nice! How does one get new projects added to the list? (For example, we would like to have Cloudron itself listed there).

jamil7 7y ago

Really cool list, some stuff I hadn't seen, thanks for posting.

yeswecatan 7y ago

Great list. I started using Firefly to track my finances back in October. Loving it so far.

MrZander 7y ago
How well does it integrate with other financial services? I currently just use Mint because it's the only app that can consistently pull in all my accounts into one place.
- computermagic 7y ago
  would love a replacement for Mint but never find anything that doesn't require a lot of extra work
- yeswecatan 7y ago
  It has the ability to import data, but it's not perfect. The author actually discourages using it: https://docs.firefly-iii.org/importing-data/csv#best-practices https://docs.firefly-iii.org/importing-data/csv#best-practic...

anderspitman 7y ago

This looks really nice. In principle, I'm a big advocate of self-hosting (one of my services is even on this list). In practice, it just doesn't work for me. Once I get beyond 2-3 services it's just too much hassle to keep track of everything. The key realization for me is that I don't actually care too much where the software is running, or who is running it for me. What I do care about is a avoiding vendor lock-in. As long as I have a reasonable escape hatch if my service company starts doing things I don't like, that's good enough. This keeps them honest. My issue with the current crop of monoliths like Google services is that there's no obvious migration path if you get fed up with them, so you're pretty much stuck with them no matter how crappy their software or customer service is/gets. That's why I think something like sandstorm.io or cloudron is the future of self-hosting, at least in the near future. Maybe eventually we'll have a substrate of simple protocols and practices that will make it reasonable to manage everything yourself, but we're not there yet.

bshipp 7y ago
I found docker was perfect for self-hosting services with relative ease. upgrades are self-contained, security is simplified behind a reverse proxy like nginx, and there are very few dependency conflicts to worry about. I've got about 40 containers running at any given time and barely think about them at all.
- BrandoElFollito 7y ago
  Exactly my thought and setup. I used to install and upgrade everything myself until I discovered docker and docker hub. Together with watchtower I have zero maintenance on the versions and everything updates automatically.
heavyset_go 7y ago
> Once I get beyond 2-3 services it's just too much hassle to keep track of everything. Docker Swarm shines in this regard because it's easy to setup, and its simplicity allows you to just forget about it. I run 30+ services behind a reverse proxy for personal use and don't need to keep track of anything.

bullen 7y ago

The biggest problem for me (that make multiplayer games that are latency sensitive) is that you can't get self hosted global presence. Otherwise my stack is completely self made and can run on a Raspberry: http://github.com/tinspin http://github.com/tinspin

jlg23 7y ago
> self hosted global presence. Could you elaborate what that is supposed to mean?
- bullen 7y ago
  I have one server in the center of every major population cluster; Taiwan, Iowa and Belgium, in order to self host those I would need a apartment/building with >1GB internet in all those places.

jlg23 7y ago

Awesome, thanks a million. Working for a privacy-concious NGO, this (not the screenshot part) is a nice starting point for sw-evaluation.

marknadal 7y ago

This looks awesome! Would you be willing to add my project (10K+ GitHub stars)? https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun It is a self-hosted Open Source alternative to Firebase, with graph features, and fully decentralized. It is used in production by HackerNoon and other sites with millions of users.

hkon 7y ago

Thanks for this! I get inspired to host my own stuff!

rjakobsson 7y ago

Perfect, this is really nice! Love the highres screenshots!

soumyadeb 7y ago

Awesome list - thanks for preparing this. Shameless plug: Would you be open to listing our project Rudder, an open-source Segment alternative. https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/ https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/. We were on HN recently

badrequest 7y ago

Why is something like this included? https://selfhostedsource.tech/p/algorithms https://selfhostedsource.tech/p/algorithms Am I meant to put this software on a computer and run it 24/7? Why?

techindex 7y ago
You've stumbled on the python list: https://lucidindex.com/python https://lucidindex.com/python It's not 'technically' part of selfhostedsource, but there's one database shared between selfhostedsource and lucidindex so it's pretty easy to get results from other lists Lucid Index will eventually index all the 'awesome' lists, but there are a few others already functioning here: https://lucidindex.com https://lucidindex.com
- badrequest 7y ago
  Ah, this makes much more sense, thank you for the clarification. :)

Seb-C 7y ago

This is a great and interesting idea. The search could use a bit of tuning. I only found a lot of unrelated stuff by searching for "feed" and "rss" .

Can_Not 7y ago

I think something like this, but for lambda and cloud run would also be cool.

ronyfadel 7y ago

Neat! I’m wondering if you’re looking to monetize this, and how? I’m working on a curated list of [not software] and wondering about how I can monetize it.

techindex 7y ago
I have a link to one of my other projects on the site - https://duetapp.com https://duetapp.com Beyond that, I don't really have any specific plans to monetize.

casca 7y ago

For ease of setting up self-hosted apps, Yunohost (https://yunohost.org https://yunohost.org) is less polished than Cloudron (https://cloudron.io https://cloudron.io) but is free. There's also Sandstorm (https://sandstorm.io https://sandstorm.io) which had funding at some point and was looking slick, but it's not clear if development is continuing.

forlorn 7y ago

Bugreport: You have 2 different 'Heimdall's leading to the same page. Not sure what went wrong but still: https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted?search=heimdall&list=self-hosted https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted?search=heimdall&li...

JackPoach 7y ago

Bitrix24 isn't on the list, even though self hosted editions are available since 2008 - https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/ https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/ Am I blind or there is no 'Submit' section on the website?

oefrha 7y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713048.

OrgNet 7y ago

no facial recognition?