Minimalist self hosted apps

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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  1. rss

    PROJECT MIGRATED TO CODEBERG -- A simple twitter-feed-style RSS aggregator written in PHP, Laravel, Inertia.js, Tailwind and Vue.js

    RSS aggregator/reader: https://github.com/ssddanbrown/rss

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. miniflux-filter

    Filter for miniflux - "mark as read" all unwanted articles.

    you may like or find it useful to complement your miniflux with a filtering solution: https://github.com/tborychowski/miniflux-filter

  4. dufs

    A file server that supports static serving, uploading, searching, accessing control, webdav...

    Dufs - https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

  5. nimforum

    Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim

    NimForum - https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

  6. microbin

    A secure, configurable file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust.

    Microbin - https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin

  7. hurlurl

    A load balancing link shortener

  8. croc

    Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. gatus

    ⛑ Automated developer-oriented status page

  11. vigil

    🚦 Microservices Status Page. Monitors a distributed infrastructure and sends alerts (Slack, SMS, etc.). (by valeriansaliou)

  12. Plume

    Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)

  13. mailbag

    Discontinued MIGRATED TO CODEBERG -- A simple plaintext email send app based on Laravel

    I also maintain a fairly minimal, as far as options/alternatives go in this area, email list managing/sending (MailChimp alternative) app: https://github.com/ssddanbrown/mailbag

  14. Shiori

    Simple bookmark manager built with Go

    Updated Shiori link: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori

  15. yarr

    yet another rss reader

  16. soft-serve

    The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦

    soft-serve. I don't understand the use case for massive web UIs for personal git repositories.

  17. minmon

    MinMon - an opinionated minimal monitoring and alarming tool

    I'd also like to mention one of my own babies: MinMon. It's a minimalistic monitoring and alarming tool. I wrote it because the alternatives felt too heavy.

  18. Atheos

    A self-hosted browser-based cloud IDE, updated from Codiad IDE

    Atheos - lightweight web IDE

  19. troddit

    A web client for Reddit with authenticated logins and a variety of browsing options

    Troddit - Reddit web client

  20. SFTPGo

    Full-featured and highly configurable SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV server - S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob

    sftpgo - SFTP server

  21. semaphore

    Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, PowerShell and other DevOps tools.

    Semaphore - CI/CD for Ansible

  22. WatchYourLAN

    Lightweight network IP scanner. Can be used to notify about new hosts and monitor host online/offline history

    WatchYourLAN - network IP scanner

  23. git-syr

    Sync Your Repos - pull or push your git repos regularly. For dotfiles backups or note taking in git repo

    git-syr - Sync Your Repos (automatic pull and push every N minutes)

  24. syncthing-android

    Discontinued Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

    Syncthing - file synchronization

  25. rustdesk

    An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.

    RustDesk - TeamViewer alternative

  26. CoreDNS

    CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

    CoreDNS - DNS server

  27. watchtower

    A process for automating Docker container base image updates.

    Watchtower - auto update Docker containers

  28. Caddy

    Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

    Caddy - web server with automatic HTTPS

  29. october

    Wake-on-lan webapp - 🎵 Wake me up, when september ends 🎵 (by bltavares)

  30. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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