Self-hosted projects built with REST

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

Open-source platform to control smart home devices, build automations and dashboards, with broad third-party integrations and local-first privacy.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Google Home+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

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

Memos is a lightweight, privacy-first self-hosted note-taking service with Markdown, fast search, and sharing features for personal notes, wikis, and team knowledge.

MITActively maintained

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Memos Cloud+19

Open-source Go backend providing embedded SQLite, realtime (SSE) subscriptions, auth (JWT/OAuth2), file storage, admin UI and REST-style APIs for web and mobile apps.

MITActively maintained

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PocketBase Cloud+17

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

Hyperswitch is an open-source payments switch and orchestrator that connects multiple payment processors through a single API, with modules for routing, vaulting, retries, and reconciliation.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Spreedly+8

Halo is an open-source CMS and site builder with themes, plugins, an editor, backups, REST APIs, and optional AI extensions for content and knowledge sites.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+18

Directus turns any SQL database into a headless CMS with an admin app, role-based access control, and instant REST and GraphQL APIs for custom applications.

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Directus Cloud+19

Open-source, API-first commerce backend with modular architecture for custom storefronts and marketplaces.

MITActively maintained

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Medusa Cloud+15

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

Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform with historical metrics, Docker/Podman container stats, configurable alerts, multi-user access, and an API.

MITActively maintained

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+9

cAdvisor (Container Advisor) collects, processes, and exports resource usage and performance metrics for running containers, with a built-in web UI and REST API.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+8

Open-source, privacy-first automated time tracker with local storage, extensible watchers, and dashboards for analyzing app, browser, and coding activity.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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RescueTime+6

ZincSearch is a Go-based, lightweight search engine for full-text indexing with Elasticsearch API-compatible ingestion, a Vue UI, and a schema-less document model.

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Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)+7

A Python-based notification library and CLI that routes messages to 120+ services via URL-based configurations, enabling self-hosted cross-platform alerts.

BSD-2-ClauseActively maintained

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Twilio+4

Gotify is a self-hosted notification server that delivers messages in real time via WebSocket, with a REST API, web UI, and optional clients like Android and CLI.

ZITADEL is an open source IAM/CIAM platform providing SSO, MFA, OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, user management, and multi-tenant organizations with audit logging.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Auth0+19

OpenSearch is an Apache 2.0 open source distributed search and analytics engine for indexing, querying, and analyzing large-scale data with REST APIs.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Amazon OpenSearch Service+19

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

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

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

Self-hostable online accounting software to manage invoices, expenses, payments, and cash flow for small businesses and freelancers.

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Akaunting Cloud+13

Self-hosted web app for managing pantry inventory, shopping lists, meal planning, and household chores with barcode support and a REST API.

Janus WebRTC Server is a lightweight, general-purpose WebRTC gateway for building real-time audio/video applications via plugins and a JSON-based API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ant Media Server Cloud+2

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

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Workday+19

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 extensibility.

MITActively maintained

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InvenTree Cloud+11

Self-hosted backup automation with a modern web UI, built on restic. Schedule, monitor, and restore encrypted backups from local or remote volumes to multiple repositories.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Duplicacy (Commercial)+15