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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
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github-orgmode-tests
This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
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Outline
The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
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sso-wall-of-shame
A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.
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dashy
🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!
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retype
Retype is an ultra-high-performance static site generator that builds a website based on simple text files. Made in Canada 🇨🇦.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better BookStack alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-11-19.
- BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg
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PHP 8.5 gets released today, here's what's new
> My favourite PHP product at the moment is BookStack (https://www.bookstackapp.com/), a really good wiki.
Another wiki that uses php is Wikipedia.
People like to shit on php but it powers some of the largest sites in the world.
At the end of the day, programming language doesn't matter much. You can be a good programmer in any language and a bad programmer in any language.
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Ask HN: Best self-hosted wiki solution in 2025? Mediawiki or something else?
We use outline (https://github.com/outline/outline) at work and it works pretty well for us. It supports collaborative editing, which was the main reason we went with it.
Personally, I use bookstack (https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack) at home. Mostly because I really like the mental model of using Bookshelves, Books, Chapters and Pages to sort my notes in.
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Self-hosting with Podman
Additionally at some point people behind this product decided to change the licensing model, and allow the use of community editions for up to 5 nodes. It wasn't my case, but that pushed me to use something more independent. So I started using dockge, then added another service for docker logs, version monitor, and keeps adding applications that are fun to use, for example homebox or bookstack. It was fun until I released the cost of energy and maintenance effort need to keep it running, at my home. Every internet issue, or power issue takes my setup down. Maybe it was not happening very often, but when I wasn’t home, and the hardware was down, there was no chance to fix it remotely. And I started relaying on that service. That is why I simply decided to migrate to hetzner, and podman at the same time, and use remote NFS. However, let's start from the beginning.
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I Created API Docs for 5 Open-source Projects Within 10 Minutes
BookStack: A platform for storing and organising information and documentation.
- BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software
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Information flow - how I capture the notes
Joplin open-source tool, with paid Sync service. However, it supports WebDav sync. As a user of Fastmail have a lot lot of storage for it. Those parts work great, links, complexity level, and clear Markdown. Themes, mobile app, tags, everything I needed was there. Unfortunately, again, for short notes, my go-to app becomes memos, for long-form BookStack, seems to be the best solution. Why? Firstly my love for self-hosted solutions boomed, also Joplin even if looks perfect for my use case was some reason hard to describe and did not encourage me to write. Soo.. I back to Obsidian.
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Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative
We use Bookstack[0] for this and I can recommend it. Free and open source.
[0] https://www.bookstackapp.com/
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What wiki platforms are you using and how is it structured?
While I haven't used it, Bookstack is spoken of favourably.
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Stats
Basic BookStack repo stats
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BookStackApp/BookStack is an open source project licensed under MIT which is not an OSI approved license.
BookStack is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of BookStack is PHP.
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