Self-hosted projects using CSS

Self-hosted, low-footprint microblogging and blog engine in Rust with Markdown posts, file uploads, RSS following, backups, and built-in search.

MITActively maintained

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Micro.blog+8

A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.

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SmugMug+18

Self-hosted encrypted file sharing and vault. Client-side encryption, shareable expiring links, CLI and web UI, and storage backends (local, S3, Backblaze B2).

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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WeTransfer+17

Django-based application to create date/time polls and general surveys for scheduling meetings, with anonymous voting, private events, and LDAP support.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Doodle+13

Open-source React + TypeScript web frontend for personal finance: budgets, transactions, accounts, forecasting and basic investment tracking with CSV import and multilingual UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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YNAB (You Need A Budget)+16

Tracks weekly box office charts and automatically adds trending theatrical releases to Radarr with filters, scheduling, and a web dashboard.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Radarr

Simple, single-file PHP feed reader supporting OPML import/export, autoupdate, caching, starred items, and plugins for personal use.

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Feedly+11

Open-source Kanban board and task management app built with ASP.NET Core Blazor. Supports projects, boards, cards, subtasks, time-tracking, attachments, reminders and Trello import.

MITActively maintained

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Trello+19

TraLa auto-discovers Traefik HTTP routers and presents services in a responsive, iconified dashboard with grouping, search, manual entries, and YAML/config overrides.

MITActively maintained

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Start.me+9

Self-hostable Wordle-style word-guessing game inspired by Mastermind. Play endlessly with custom dictionaries; runs via Node.js or Docker.

Client-side web app to visually build, edit, and export GEDCOM family trees. Runs entirely in the browser with offline storage and optional Git repository sync.

MITSlowing down

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Family Tree Maker+1

Client-side web app to encrypt or split secrets into QR codes and OCR-friendly printouts for offline recovery using AES and Shamir Secret Sharing.

Slowing down

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Onetime Secret+1

Bluecherry is an open-source Linux video surveillance DVR for IP cameras, offering web-based live view, desktop and mobile clients, Docker deployment, notifications, and role-based access.

GPL-2.0Slowing down

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AXIS Camera Station+10

Web app for bulk-managing digital comic libraries: convert CBR/PDF to CBZ, rebuild archives, edit CBZ contents, enhance images, remote-downloads and folder monitoring.

CouchTube is a Go application that schedules and plays curated YouTube videos as TV-style channels using JSON playlists, with Docker and SQLite support.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Watch2Gether+2

Vite-built static dashboard that lists, pings, and launches self-hosted services; configurable via a JSON config and available as a Docker image or prebuilt archive.

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Start.me+6

BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin that adds member profiles, activity streams, groups, messaging, and extensibility to build community and social networking sites.

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Reddit+4

Open-source platform for creating, running and automatically grading programming exercises in Docker sandboxes; integrates with LMS (Moodle, edX).

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CodeGrade+6

Lightweight self-hosted RSS/Atom reader written in PHP. Uses cron for background fetching, stores feeds in MySQL, and provides a responsive web UI with plugin support.

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Feedly+8

A minimalist static feed reader that fetches RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds and builds a single static HTML page configurable via feeds.json and templates.

MITSlowing down

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Feedly+7

A PHP flat-file CMS that stores content in XML files, providing a portable, database-free platform with themes, plugins, media manager, comments and multilingual support.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+13

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog engine offering a lightweight blog platform with plugins, themes, media library, comments, and multi-database support.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

Open-source PHP and MySQL CMS focused on developer control, template-driven sites, modular content types, and an intuitive admin/editor experience.

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WordPress.com+12

Open-source web application to monitor MQTT topics, publish messages, visualize real-time message flows, and persist messages with configurable SQLite storage. Docker-ready.

MITActively maintained

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MQTTX

Open-source Discord analytics dashboard with a Next.js web UI, Pocketbase backend, and a bot that collects real-time server activity, message analytics, growth and engagement metrics.

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Countly+17

File-based PHP blogging engine that requires no database. Provides Smarty-powered themes, a plugin/widget system, comments with spam protection, and easy backups.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

Medialytics parses a Plex server's XML feed and produces charts and reports about movies and TV libraries (codecs, containers, studios, ratings, size and watch stats).

Minimal, fast image and video gallery server with PWA support, thumbnail generation, slideshows, filtering, and simple filesystem-based operation for self-hosting.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+14

Lightweight HTTP proxy that extracts article text, images and links, removes ads and heavy scripts, proxies media and compresses images to save bandwidth and improve load times.

MITActively maintained

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Bunny Optimizer+1

Web-based app to organize, upload, and sync movie, TV and collection posters with Plex; supports TMDB/TVDB/Fanart, PWA, scheduled imports, and orphan detection.

MITActively maintained

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Plex