Self-hosted projects built with Node.js

Self-hostable workflow automation platform combining a visual builder with JavaScript/Python code steps, 400+ integrations, and AI-assisted automation.

Actively maintained

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Zapier+17

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

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-compatible storage.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+14

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitoring tool for HTTP(S), TCP, ping, DNS and more, with notifications, charts, and public status pages.

MITActively maintained

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UptimeRobot+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

Hoppscotch Community Edition is an open-source API development and testing tool for REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, MQTT, and Socket.IO with collections and environments.

MITActively maintained

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Postman+9

code-server runs Visual Studio Code in your browser, providing a remote development environment you can self-host on a VM or container and access from any device.

MITActively maintained

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Visual Studio Code+10

Grafana is an open source observability and data visualization platform for querying, graphing, and alerting on metrics, logs, and traces across many data sources.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Grafana Cloud+19

Open-source, privacy-focused collaborative workspace for notes, databases, kanban boards and AI-assisted writing; desktop, mobile and web clients with local-first storage.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Notion+19

Open-source headless CMS for building customizable content APIs with an admin UI, supporting REST/GraphQL and multiple databases.

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Strapi Cloud+16

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

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Notion+16

An open source static site generator for building and maintaining documentation and project websites with Markdown/MDX, React, versioning, and i18n.

MITActively maintained

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Read the Docs+13

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and time-series database for collecting metrics, querying with PromQL, and alerting on system and application health.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+17

AnythingLLM is an all-in-one desktop and Docker app for chatting with documents using RAG, running AI agents, and connecting to local or hosted LLMs and vector databases.

MITActively maintained

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AnythingLLM Cloud+19

Open-source Airtable alternative that turns Postgres/MySQL/SQLite into a no-code spreadsheet UI with views, permissions, integrations, and REST APIs.

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Airtable+10

Open-source alternative to Jira/Linear for tasks, cycles, docs and analytics; offers cloud and self-hosted deployments.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Jira+18

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service with repositories, pull requests, issues, wiki, packages, and built-in CI/CD via Actions and runners.

Appwrite is an open-source backend-as-a-service for building web and mobile apps with authentication, databases, storage, functions, realtime APIs, and messaging.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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Firebase+4

Joplin is an offline-first, privacy-focused note and to-do app with end-to-end encryption, Markdown support, web clipping, and sync across desktop and mobile.

Actively maintained

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Evernote+19

Twenty is an open-source CRM alternative to Salesforce with customizable data models, views, permissions, and workflow automation for sales and customer management.

Actively maintained

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Salesforce Sales Cloud+18

Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs and websites with built-in newsletters, membership management, and paid subscriptions.

MITActively maintained

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Ghost(Pro)+13

Mastodon is an open-source, ActivityPub-compatible social network server for microblogging, offering federated timelines, moderation tools, media support, and APIs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Threads+7

Self-hostable scheduling software for appointments and bookings with customizable booking pages, availability rules, reminders, and integrations for teams and developers.

MITActively maintained

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Calendly+12

Rocket.Chat is an open-source communications platform for secure team messaging, channels, DMs, voice/video, integrations, and customer omnichannel support.

Actively maintained

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Rocket.Chat Cloud+19

Open-source, block-oriented personal knowledge manager with Markdown WYSIWYG, block-level two-way links, encrypted sync, Docker deployment and AI integrations.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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SiYuan+18

RSSHub generates RSS/Atom/JSON feeds for thousands of sites and services that don’t provide feeds, exposing them as subscribable endpoints you can self-host.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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RSS.app+1

Payload is an open-source, TypeScript-first headless CMS for Next.js with an extensible admin UI, auth, drafts, access control, and APIs for building fullstack apps.

MITActively maintained

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Payload CMS Cloud+16

Self-hostable internet OS that provides a web desktop, cloud storage, and an app platform for files, web apps, and remote-work style workflows.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Drive+19

LibreChat is a self-hosted AI chat platform that supports multiple LLM providers, custom endpoints, agents/tools, file and image chat, conversation search, and presets.

MITActively maintained

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ChatGPT+11