Self-hosted projects using Docker

Tinode is an open source instant messaging platform with a Go backend, web/mobile clients, JSON WebSocket and gRPC APIs, and support for one-to-one and group chat.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Telegram+13

Element is a Matrix client for secure team messaging and collaboration, offering end-to-end encrypted chats and calls with interoperability across the Matrix network.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+19

Mailcow is a dockerized mail server suite providing SMTP/IMAP, webmail, anti-spam/anti-virus, and domain/mailbox administration via a unified web UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Microsoft Exchange Online+16

Self-hosted recipe manager with URL imports, meal planning, shopping lists, cookbooks, and an API-first backend with a Vue web interface.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Paprika Recipe Manager+8

Self-host Google Fonts easily: select variants and subsets, download font files (woff2, woff, ttf, eot, svg) and generate matching CSS snippets via web UI or API.

Gotenberg is a containerized HTTP API that converts HTML, Markdown, and Office documents to PDF using engines like Chromium and LibreOffice, with options to merge and automate outputs.

MITActively maintained

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PDFShift+9

wallabag is a self-hostable read-it-later service to save web pages, extract clean article content, tag and organize items, and read them on any device.

MITActively maintained

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Pocket+4

Open-source, cookieless web and product analytics alternative to Google Analytics with real-time dashboards, funnels, journeys, and session replays.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Analytics+19

Self-hosted web app for organizing, tagging, and streaming a private adult video and image library with metadata scraping, galleries, and markers.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+11

Formbricks is an open-source Qualtrics alternative for creating in-app, web, link, and email surveys with targeting, segmentation, and built-in analysis.

Actively maintained

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SurveyMonkey+10

Self-hosted ROM manager that scans, enriches, and organizes game collections, with metadata, artwork, tags, and optional in-browser playback.

Self-hosted, real-time Kanban board built with React and Node.js; supports collaborative boards, markdown notes, SSO, and flexible notifications.

Actively maintained

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Trello+19

Self-hostable managed file transfer server supporting SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS and WebDAV with per-user storage backends (local, encrypted, S3-compatible, GCS, Azure Blob) and web UI.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MOVEit Transfer+13

Open-source, self-hosted media request and discovery tool for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby with DVR integration and Radarr/Sonarr support.

MySQL is an open source relational database for SQL-based transactional and analytical workloads, supporting replication, high availability, and clustering options.

Actively maintained

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)+11

Komodo is a self-hosted build and deployment platform to automate builds and deploy Docker containers and Compose stacks across many servers with a web UI and API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Coolify Cloud+19

Manticore Search is a fast open-source search database for full-text, faceted, and vector search with SQL (MySQL protocol) and HTTP JSON APIs.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Manticore Search+15

Self-hosted status page and uptime monitoring tool with configurable health checks, dashboards, metrics, and alerting for HTTP, TCP, ICMP, and DNS endpoints.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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UptimeRobot+19

Aureus ERP is an open-source, modular ERP platform built on Laravel for managing accounting, HR, CRM/sales, projects, inventory, and procurement.

MITActively maintained

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Odoo+8

umbrelOS is a home server operating system that lets you self-host popular apps via a built-in app store, with one-click installs on Raspberry Pi, x86, or Umbrel Home.

Actively maintained

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Umbrel+15

MyIP (IPCheck.ing) is an open-source web IP toolbox that detects local/public IPs, runs DNS leak and WebRTC checks, speed/latency/MTR tests, availability and whois lookups.

MITActively maintained

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WhatIsMyIPAddress.com+10

Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet that combines spreadsheet usability with a database-style data model, supporting Python formulas, dashboards, and integrations.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Airtable+14

ESPHome generates custom firmware for ESP32/ESP8266 and other boards from YAML, enabling local smart home devices with Home Assistant, API, and MQTT integration.

Actively maintained

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Blynk+15

Shiori is a lightweight bookmark manager with a web interface and CLI, full-text search, imports from Pocket/Netscape, and optional offline archiving of saved pages.

MITActively maintained

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Pocket+9

Open-source self-hosted reading server providing EPUB/PDF/comics readers, OPDS feeds, rich metadata, user/role management, full-text search and a REST API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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BookFusion+5

Homer is a lightweight static homepage dashboard configured via YAML to organize and quickly access self-hosted services, with search, theming, and PWA support.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Homarr Cloud+13

Whoogle Search is a self-hosted, ad-free and privacy-respecting search frontend that removes tracking, ads, AMP links, and other clutter from Google results.

MITActively maintained

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Google Search+5

Open-source cloud-native search engine for observability data on object storage with an Elasticsearch/OpenSearch-compatible API.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Splunk+5

Leantime is an open-source, PHP-based project management system combining strategy, planning and execution with Kanban, Gantt, dashboards, wikis, time tracking and AI-assisted features.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Asana+19

Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming server that supports RTMP ingest, HLS playback, and built-in web chat, with optional Fediverse (ActivityPub) integration.

MITActively maintained

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YouTube+12