[App Discovery] Favorite and Underrated Self Hosted App

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

AppSignal - Monitoring that respects your time & budget
APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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Kargo - Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo
Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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  1. fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    fzf - while it's primary purpose: "general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder", it can be used in multiple ways, to build a searchable menu, previewers as well action menus. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. age

    A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

    age: simple, modern and secure file encryption tool. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  4. SFTPGo

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

    SFTPgo - open source storage solution, supports access over: SFTP, FTP(s), WebDAV, HTTPS with support for multiple backends, starting from local storage and up to most popular cloud base storages (S3, Azure...) with flexible access control. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  5. kopia

    Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.

    kopia - open source, backup solutions(in single executable file): encrypted, compressed, deduplicated, versioned backups with support of multiple backends, starting from local storage as well over network: SFTP, WebDAV as well most popular clouds(S3 compatible, Backblaze...). Can work as single backup for single computer as well as a server for multiple computers with ACL (access control list) support that allows to setup "append" only workflow to prevent backups overwriting by ransomware and benefit form deduplication from multiple computers. Portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  6. go-mtree

    File systems verification utility and library, in likeness of mtree(8)

    go-mtree: portable implementation of well known utility mtree) that can be used to save/test file's integrity as well directory structures. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  7. transfer.sh

    Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line.

    transfer.sh: Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line. Support local storage as well cloud base. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  8. Gitea

    Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

    gitea: Self-hosted git server. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  9. Kargo

    Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.

    Kargo logo
  10. Caddy

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

    caddy: Simple but functional web server with automatic TLS certificate renewals, OCSP stapling, static file serving, reverse proxying. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  11. gocryptfs

    Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

    gocryptfs: On the fly file system encryption with reverse support (mirrored view of live system, that won't take space). Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  12. filemanager

    Discontinued File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview and edit your files.

    filebrowser: provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files over web browser. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  13. Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

    hugo: Fast and Flexible Static Web Site Generator. Open source, portable across most popular operation systems, no dependencies, single executable file.

  14. HRConvert2

    A self-hosted, respource aware file conversion server supporting 488 formats in 26 languages.

    HRConvert2 - https://github.com/zelon88/HRConvert2 - File conversion server.

  15. HRCloud2

    A full-featured home hosted Cloud Drive, Personal Assistant, App Launcher, File Converter, Streamer, Share Tool & More!

    HRCloud2 - https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud2 - Self hosted Cloud storage & app launcher.

  16. Kavita

    Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.

    Kavita

  17. HedgeDoc

    HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together

    HedgeDoc - https://github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc - Markdown editor

  18. Hymenaios

    Discontinued Argus is a lightweight monitor to notify of new software releases via Gotify/Slack messages and/or WebHooks. [Moved to: https://github.com/release-argus/Argus]

    https://github.com/hymenaios-io/Hymenaios Release Monitoring

  19. gluetun

    VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

    Gluetun is a fantastic VPN/Wireguard client docker container, that you can use to proxy your other containers.

  20. 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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