Self-hosted projects using Python

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

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Blynk+15

Self-hosted bookmark manager with tagging, notes, read-it-later, sharing, archiving, import/export, browser extensions, and a REST API.

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Raindrop.io+11

BunkerWeb is an open-source WAF and NGINX-based reverse proxy to protect web apps and APIs with HTTPS automation, security policies, and extensible plugins.

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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)+10

Open-source service that monitors cron jobs and scheduled tasks via HTTP/email pings, providing a dashboard, alerts, badges and many notification integrations.

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Healthchecks.io+2

Self-hosted web UI to control, monitor, and manage consumer 3D printers, with webcam viewing, G-code visualization, and an extensive plugin system.

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Obico Cloud (formerly The Spaghetti Detective)

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.

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+8

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo and video management service with timeline views, metadata search, and machine-learning features like face recognition and semantic ima...

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Google Photos+9

Self-hosted recipe manager for organizing recipes, planning meals, creating shopping lists, and collaborating with family or friends.

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Paprika Recipe Manager+5

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

OpenTTD is an open-source transport simulation game based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, featuring deep logistics gameplay, modding support, and multiplayer.

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Minecraft Realms+10

Tube Archivist is a self-hosted YouTube media server to download, index, search, and watch your archived videos with subscriptions and watch status tracking.

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YouTube+6

OSRM is a high-performance routing engine for OpenStreetMap data, providing an HTTP API for routing, map matching, distance tables, and more.

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Mapbox+1

Snapcast is a client-server system for perfectly synchronized multiroom audio playback, turning existing audio players into a Sonos-like whole-home streaming setup.

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Sonos+3

Open-source RSS reader with real-time feed updates, training-based filtering, full-text search, social sharing, and native mobile apps; available hosted or self-hosted.

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Feedly+13

Open-source HR management and payroll software with employee lifecycle, leave and attendance tracking, performance reviews, and employee self-service portal.

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Workday+19

Mailu is a full-featured mail server distributed as Docker images, providing SMTP/IMAP/POP3, webmail, administration UI, and built-in security and anti-spam features.

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Microsoft Exchange Online+19

Buku is a fast, privacy-focused CLI bookmark manager storing bookmarks in a portable SQLite DB. It supports imports/exports, smart tagging, regex search and an optional w...

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Pinboard+10

Open-source tool to share files, host websites, and chat privately over the Tor network; available as desktop GUI, CLI, and mobile apps.

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Send Anywhere+8

Open-source event-driven automation platform for DevOps and SRE, with rules, workflows, ChatOps, and hundreds of integration packs for auto-remediation and incident respo...

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IFTTT+8

OpenMediaVault is a Debian-based network-attached storage (NAS) solution with a web UI, built-in file sharing services, and a modular plugin system for home and small off...

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QNAP QTS+2

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, open-source turn-based tactical strategy game with rich campaigns, multiplayer, a map editor, and extensive modding support.

SimpleLogin is an open-source email alias service that lets you create aliases to protect your real inbox, forward mail, and reply or send from aliases using custom domai...

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SimpleLogin+3

Self-hosted web app for Plex Media Server monitoring, viewing playback analytics, user history, and sending customizable notifications and newsletters.

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Tautulli

InvenTree is an open-source inventory management system built on Python and Django, offering stock control, part tracking, BOM management, and a REST API with plugin exte...

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InvenTree Cloud+11

Open-source feature flagging and remote config platform to control releases, segment users, and run A/B or multivariate tests across web, mobile, and backend apps.

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LaunchDarkly+2

Open source web-based localization platform with tight Git/VCS integration, translation workflows, quality checks, and automation for continuous software localization.

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Transifex+5

Open-source fitness manager with workouts, diet tracking, exercise wiki, progress gallery, and REST API.

Open-source video integration and NVR platform that ingests camera streams and rebroadcasts them to HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, Home Assistant and web clients via plugin...

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Blue Iris+10

Open-source CLI task manager with tagging, projects, priorities, recurrence, filtering, extensible hooks and optional sync.

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Todoist+10

Self-hosted network visibility and presence scanner that discovers connected devices and alerts on new, unknown, or changed hosts across your LAN/Wi‑Fi.

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Fing+8