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

techindex | 656 points

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...

m_fayer | 4 years ago

From 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

[2] https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin

oefrha | 4 years 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 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).

gramakri | 4 years 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.

anderspitman | 4 years ago

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

leemailll | 4 years 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/. We were on HN recently

soumyadeb | 4 years ago

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

casca | 4 years 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.

recrudesce | 4 years ago

Bitrix24 isn't on the list, even though self hosted editions are available since 2008 - https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/

Am I blind or there is no 'Submit' section on the website?

JackPoach | 4 years ago

reddit.com/r/selfhosted might like this

biermic | 4 years ago

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

jlg23 | 4 years 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&li...

forlorn | 4 years 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.

omarhaneef | 4 years ago

Why is something like this included? https://selfhostedsource.tech/p/algorithms

Am I meant to put this software on a computer and run it 24/7? Why?

badrequest | 4 years ago

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

yeswecatan | 4 years ago
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| 4 years 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" .

Seb-C | 4 years ago

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

edf13 | 4 years ago

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

marban | 4 years 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.

ronyfadel | 4 years 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.

k-godwin | 4 years ago

This is _awesome_! I'll be absolutely adding these to our Template store over at 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!

erulabs | 4 years ago

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

1234ideclare | 4 years 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

bullen | 4 years ago

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

Can_Not | 4 years ago

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

jamil7 | 4 years ago

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

rjakobsson | 4 years ago

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

hkon | 4 years ago

no facial recognition?

OrgNet | 4 years ago

This looks awesome!

Would you be willing to add my project (10K+ GitHub stars)?

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.

marknadal | 4 years ago