Self-hosted projects built with HTTP/1.1

Ollama is a local LLM runtime that lets you pull, run, and customize models, offering a CLI and REST API for chat, generation, and embeddings.

MITActively maintained

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OpenAI API+15

LocalSend is a free, open-source app for fast, encrypted file and text sharing between nearby devices over a local network, available on desktop and mobile.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Apple AirDrop+6

Pi-hole is a network-wide DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers for all devices on your network, with a web dashboard, query logs, and optional DHCP server.

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AdGuard+7

Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine API for apps and websites, offering typo-tolerant full-text search plus vector and AI-ready hybrid retrieval.

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Algolia+16

Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool providing a terminal dashboard, web UI, and REST/XML-RPC APIs for local or remote monitoring and exporting metrics.

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Netdata Cloud+11

Typesense is a developer-friendly search engine for instant, typo-tolerant search-as-you-type with faceting, filtering, geo search, and vector/semantic search APIs.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Algolia+19

Open-source Python framework to build, scale, and deploy multimodal AI services and pipelines with gRPC/HTTP/WebSocket support and Kubernetes/Docker integration.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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Baseten+12

Anubis is a lightweight web AI firewall that protects sites from AI crawlers and scraping bots using configurable request challenges and bot policies.

MITActively maintained

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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)+10

OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy and middleware that protects web apps with OAuth2/OIDC login and forwards authenticated user identity to upstream services.

MITActively maintained

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Cloudflare Access+14

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

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

Mopidy is an extensible Python music server that plays local files and radio streams, and can add streaming service backends via extensions with MPD and web clients.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+8

Self-hostable Git server focused on SSH, featuring a terminal UI, access control, and Git LFS support, with cloning via SSH, HTTP, or the Git protocol.

Lura is a stateless, high-performance API gateway framework for building reverse proxies that aggregate, transform, and secure backend APIs via middleware and plugins.

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Amazon API Gateway+9

A general-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool for homelabs, offering web UI, ACME/TLS, stream proxy, plugins and realtime monitoring.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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ngrok+16

Lightweight CalDAV/CardDAV server for syncing calendars, to-dos, and contacts with many clients, storing data on the filesystem and supporting auth and TLS.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Calendar+8

A ACL-based proxy that sits in front of the Docker daemon to block unsafe API endpoints while allowing authorized operations.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Docker

Open-source, production-ready OCI-native container image and artifact registry with single-binary deployment, S3/local storage, web UI and CLI.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Docker Hub+3

Static Web Server (SWS) is a lightweight, cross-platform Rust web server for serving static files with HTTP/2, TLS, compression, caching headers, and SPA fallbacks.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Apache HTTP Server+5

Docspell is a self-hosted document management system that imports scanned files and email attachments, runs OCR, and helps organize documents with tags, metadata, and search.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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DocuWare+5

Lightweight single-binary log viewer that streams logs to a local web UI with real-time filtering, search, and TypeScript-based parsing for structured and text logs.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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Papertrail+3

Lightweight open-source feature flag system with a relay proxy, OpenFeature support, file/cloud retrievers, and exporters for usage data.

MITActively maintained

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Unleash+4

ownCloud Infinite Scale (oCIS) is a cloud-native file sync and share platform with WebDAV/CS3 APIs, OIDC authentication, and scalable microservice architecture.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Google Drive+15

Scalable enterprise search platform supporting full-text, vector, faceted and geospatial search with SolrCloud clustering and a web admin UI.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Algolia+18

Open-source AI camera monitoring that routes camera streams through a relay/node proxy and broadcasts frames to federated AI workers for detections, summaries, and alerts.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Blue Iris+10

Self-hosted WebRTC videoconferencing server designed for lectures, meetings, and conferences, featuring chat, recording, screen sharing, moderation, and a built-in TURN server.

MITActively maintained

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Zoom+17

Developer-first platform for durable workflow automation and orchestration, with code-based workflows, triggers, integrations, and API-first execution.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Zapier+15

openHAB is a Java-based, modular open-source smart home platform providing a rules engine, extensible add-ons, multi-protocol device integration and mobile/web UIs.

EPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Samsung SmartThings+15

WebDAV server that mounts NZB files as a virtual filesystem for streaming; provides a SABnzbd-compatible API and integrates with Sonarr/Radarr for media-server workflows.

MITActively maintained

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Premiumize.me+9

Audioserve is a minimalist Rust server for streaming audiobooks and other audio files from folders, with a web PWA client, playlists, search, and optional transcoding.

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Plex+8