Self-hosted projects using PHP

Open-source PSA for MSPs combining client documentation, ticketing, billing/accounting, and a client portal, with API integrations and optional AI assistance.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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HaloITSM+19

Chamilo LMS is an open-source learning management system for delivering online courses, managing users, and tracking learning activities with an accessible, easy-to-use interface.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Canvas LMS+17

Administrative web interface for managing, monitoring, and updating Tasmota-flashed IoT devices, including device discovery, bulk actions, and OTA firmware updates.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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SONOFF Cloud (eWeLink)+13

Open-source PHP-based image and video hosting platform for building Imgur/Flickr-style sites with S3/external storage, Docker support, multi-user accounts and admin tools.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Imgur+8

Self-hosted invoicing and quoting platform with client management, taxes/discounts, online payments, and a REST API for integrations.

MITActively maintained

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Invoice Ninja+15

Self-hosted image, GIF, MP4, and text paste hosting with a simple API, on-the-fly resizing, and URL-based transformations. File-based storage; no database required.

Actively maintained

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Imgur+19

Open-source self-hosted real-time location sharing backend with in-memory storage, temporary share links, a Docker image and companion mobile clients.

Apache-2.0Likely dormant

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Glympse+2

Automad is a fast, lightweight flat-file CMS with an admin dashboard, block editor, in-page editing, theme/package support, and an optional headless JSON API.

Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+19

Open-source investment portfolio tracker with real-time market data, charts, collaboration, and an optional LLM chat assistant grounded on your holdings.

Actively maintained

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Morningstar Portfolio Manager+12

OpenTrashmail is a standalone disposable email (“trashmail”) service with its own SMTP server, offering a web UI plus JSON API, RSS feeds, and webhooks for received mail.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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Mailinator+3

DOMjudge is an automated jury system for programming contests, providing submissions, judging, scoreboards, and admin tools for ICPC-style events.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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CTFd Cloud+1

Textpattern CMS is a lightweight, extensible PHP CMS for building blogs and websites with a tag-based templating system, plugins, and a streamlined admin interface.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+18

AGPL-3.0 open-source email API for developers that can be self-hosted; supports SMTP sending, webhooks, DNS automation, observability, multi-tenancy, and project isolation.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)+11

Thelia is an open-source e-commerce platform built on Symfony for creating and managing customizable online stores, content, and integrations via APIs and modules.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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PrestaShop+5

Castopod is an open-source podcast hosting platform to publish podcasts via RSS, interact with audiences (Fediverse), and track privacy-friendly analytics.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Buzzsprout+10

phpList is an open source email marketing manager for newsletters and campaigns, with subscriber management, segmentation, scheduling, bounce handling, and analytics.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mailchimp+14

Open-source CMS for teams with in-context editing, granular permissions, and built-in collaboration.

MITActively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

Self-hosted bookmark manager with tags, nested groups, smart groups, multi-user support, import/export, and browser extensions for quick saving.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Raindrop.io+10

Self-hosted web app for signing PDFs (single or multi-signer), organizing pages (merge/rotate/extract), editing PDF metadata, and compressing files.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Docusign+19

Self-hosted IPTV M3U/Xtream playlist editor with XMLTV EPG management, channel/series tools, Xtream API output, and automations like scripts, webhooks, and email.

Actively maintained

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IPTV Editor+1

Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss) is a self-hosted, web-based RSS/Atom reader and feed aggregator with filtering, tagging, and a plugin system.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Feedly+8

Web-based genealogy software for publishing and collaboratively editing family trees, with GEDCOM import, media support, and granular privacy controls.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ancestry+3

Deployrr automates homelab setup and app deployment using Docker and Docker Compose, with pre-configured stacks, Traefik reverse proxy options, and security integrations.

Actively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+19

LibreBooking is an open-source scheduling system for managing resource reservations with calendars, waitlists, quotas, reporting, and role-based access control.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Skedda+11

Movary is a self-hosted web app to track, rate, and explore your movie watch history with statistics, integrations, and automatic scrobbling from media servers.

MITActively maintained

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Simkl+1

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking and documentation app with rich text & Markdown editors, search, attachments, workspaces, REST API and OIDC support.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+19

Open-source PHP forum software supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite with a modular package system and rich moderation features.

Actively maintained

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Discourse+8

Cockpit is an API-first, self-hostable headless CMS for managing structured content, assets, and localization with REST and GraphQL APIs.

Actively maintained

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Contentful+16

Davis is a sabre/dav-based CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV server with a modern Symfony 7 admin dashboard for managing users, calendars, sharing, and address books.

MITActively maintained

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Google Calendar+6

Self-hosted web hosting control panel built around Docker containers, providing isolated per-user environments, resource limits, and integrated DNS, SSL, and management tools.

Actively maintained

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cPanel+19