Self-hosted projects tagged “API”

Self-hosted AI answering engine that combines web search with local or hosted LLMs to generate cited answers, with search history and file uploads.

MITActively maintained

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Perplexity+5

SearXNG is a privacy-respecting metasearch engine that aggregates results from many search services without tracking or profiling users.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Search+6

Open-source modular commerce platform for building custom B2C/B2B e-commerce backends with an admin dashboard, extensible modules, and APIs.

Actively maintained

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Medusa Cloud+8

Open-source, API-first commerce backend with modular architecture for custom storefronts and marketplaces.

Actively maintained

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Medusa Cloud+15

CyberChef is a web-based “cyber” toolkit for encoding/decoding, encryption/decryption, compression, hashing, parsing, and data transformation using drag-and-drop recipes.

Open-source social media scheduling tool with analytics, team collaboration, automation API, and AI-assisted content creation for multi-channel publishing.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Buffer+14

ntfy is a lightweight HTTP pub-sub service to send push notifications to phones, desktops, and browsers via PUT/POST or a REST API.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Pushover+8

Infisical is an open-source platform to manage and deliver app secrets, certificates (PKI), SSH credentials, and encryption keys across teams and infrastructure.

Actively maintained

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HashiCorp Vault+9

Open source BI tool to connect to many data sources, run SQL/NoSQL queries, build visualizations and dashboards, share insights, and set alerts and scheduled refreshes.

BSD-2-ClauseActively maintained

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Redash+19

Local-first personal finance app for envelope budgeting, transaction tracking, reporting, and optional end-to-end encrypted multi-device sync.

MITActively maintained

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YNAB (You Need A Budget)+16

Actual Budget is a local-first personal finance app with envelope budgeting, reporting, multi-device sync, and optional end-to-end encryption.

MITActively maintained

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YNAB (You Need A Budget)+17

Bagisto is a free, open-source Laravel eCommerce platform for building online stores, marketplaces, and headless commerce with an extensible admin panel.

MITActively maintained

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VTEX+8

Huly is an open-source all-in-one platform combining project management, team chat, and collaborative documentation as an alternative to tools like Jira, Linear, Slack, and Notion.

EPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Linear+19

Dub is an open-source link attribution platform for branded short links, real-time analytics, conversion tracking, webhooks, and affiliate/referral programs.

Actively maintained

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Bitly+9

Open-source, self-hosted personal finance manager for tracking expenses, budgets, and reports with a REST API.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mint (Intuit Mint)+17

Open-source automation builder for creating workflows with webhooks, HTTP steps, code actions, and an extensible TypeScript-based integration framework with AI features.

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Zapier+17

Open-source, self-hosted no-code/low-code platform to build internal tools and business applications with a data-model approach, workflows, permissions, and a plugin system.

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Microsoft Power Apps+19

Open-source, browser-based low-code platform and Node.js runtime for wiring devices, APIs and services into event-driven flows for automation, IoT and integrations.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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IFTTT+13

Open source, GraphQL-native headless ecommerce platform with a composable API for products, checkout, payments, and multichannel order management.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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Saleor Cloud+6

Self-hosted music streaming server with a modern web UI, Subsonic-compatible API, multi-user support, and on-the-fly transcoding for large libraries.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+13

Invidious is a lightweight, privacy-focused alternative front-end for YouTube with subscriptions, playlists, and an API—without Google accounts, ads, or tracking.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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YouTube

Neko is a self-hosted virtual browser/desktop streamed over WebRTC, enabling low-latency remote access and multi-user collaborative sessions in Docker.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Hyperbeam+10

Matomo is an open-source web and app analytics platform that provides real-time insights, customizable dashboards, and privacy controls with full data ownership.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Analytics+14

Teable is an Airtable alternative for building database apps with a spreadsheet UI, multiple views, real-time collaboration, and a plugin system, backed by PostgreSQL.

Actively maintained

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Airtable+11

Wagtail is an open-source CMS built on Django and Python, offering an editor-friendly admin UI, flexible content modeling with StreamField, and optional headless APIs.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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Adobe Experience Manager+19

Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager with reader mode, highlights, tagging, full-text search, and automatic webpage preservation as screenshots and PDFs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Linkwarden Cloud+10

Open-source, privacy-first automated time tracker with local storage, extensible watchers, and dashboards for analyzing app, browser, and coding activity.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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RescueTime+6

Lila is the open source server behind lichess.org, providing real-time chess, puzzles, analysis, tournaments, teams, and community features via web and mobile clients.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Chess.com

Etherpad is a web-based real-time collaborative editor with chat, rich-text formatting, and a plugin framework for customization and integrations.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Etherpad Cloud+9

Self-hostable DocuSign alternative to create fillable forms and collect legally binding eSignatures with API and webhooks.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Docusign+13