Self-hosted projects tagged “Real Time”

Excalidraw is an open-source collaborative whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams, wireframes, and flowcharts with real-time sharing.

MITActively maintained

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Excalidraw++15

Free open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile with timeline editing, multi-track support, real-time preview, and local-first privacy.

MITActively maintained

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CapCut+16

Open-source, agent-based monitoring platform delivering per-second metrics, edge ML anomaly detection, tiered time-series storage and centralized cloud UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+16

All-in-one, privacy-focused workspace that merges docs, whiteboards and databases with real-time collaboration and multimodal AI assistance.

Actively maintained

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Notion+16

Open-source Go backend providing embedded SQLite, realtime (SSE) subscriptions, auth (JWT/OAuth2), file storage, admin UI and REST-style APIs for web and mobile apps.

MITActively maintained

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PocketBase Cloud+17

Open-source OLAP database designed for real-time analytics at scale.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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ClickHouse Cloud+11

Outline is a fast, collaborative knowledge base for teams, featuring markdown docs, real-time editing, AI-powered search, and Slack integrations.

Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+16

Novu is an open-source notifications platform with a unified API, workflow orchestration, and embeddable in-app inbox for email, SMS, push, and chat.

Actively maintained

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Novu Cloud+4

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

Hasura is an open-source GraphQL engine that instantly exposes realtime, secure GraphQL APIs over databases and other data sources with fine-grained access control.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Hasura+16

InfluxDB is an open source time-series database for high-ingest metrics and event data, enabling fast queries for monitoring, dashboards, and real-time analytics.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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InfluxDB Cloud+5

Self-hostable WebRTC video conferencing with chat, screen sharing, moderation tools, and SDKs for embedding meetings into web and mobile apps.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Zoom+12

Open-source, lightweight web analytics with a simple dashboard, privacy-first metrics, and goal/conversion tracking as an alternative to Google Analytics.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Analytics+13

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

Dockge is a self-hosted, stack-oriented manager for Docker Compose files, providing a responsive web UI to edit, deploy, update, and monitor compose.yaml stacks.

MITActively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+15

Open-source observability pipeline to collect, transform, and route logs and metrics with a single, high-performance binary and programmable transforms.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Elastic Logstash+13

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

Open-source Confluence/Notion alternative for team wikis and documentation with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, diagrams, and search.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+17

WeKan is an open-source Kanban board app with real-time collaboration, boards/lists/cards, access controls, and multiple deployment options like Docker.

MITActively maintained

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Trello+19

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer that turns server access logs into interactive terminal (TUI) or browser-based dashboards, plus HTML/JSON/CSV reports.

MITActively maintained

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Google Analytics+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

Collaborative note-taking, wiki, and documentation platform with real-time editing, access control, and offline support. Built with Django and React/Next.js.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+19

EMQX is a high-performance MQTT broker and IoT messaging platform with clustering, security controls, a SQL rules engine, and integrations to databases and event systems.

Actively maintained

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EMQX Cloud+3

Self-hosted Zigbee-to-MQTT bridge that lets you control Zigbee devices without vendor gateways and integrate them with home automation platforms via MQTT.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Tuya Zigbee Gateway+16

NodeBB is a modern forum platform with real-time discussions, built-in chat, SSO options, plugins, and flexible theming, backed by Redis, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+14

LibreSpeed is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted internet speed test implemented in JavaScript. It measures download, upload, ping and jitter and supports PHP/Node backends and Docker deployment.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Speedtest by Ookla+3

Lightweight web-based real-time log viewer for Docker containers, with support for Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, plus search, split view, and optional authentication.

MITActively maintained

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Papertrail+9

Apache Druid is a real-time analytics (OLAP) database delivering sub-second queries on streaming and batch data with high concurrency at scale.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Imply+10