Self-hosted projects using Ruby

Huginn is an open-source automation platform that runs agents to monitor web data, process events, and trigger actions — self-hosted and extensible.

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IFTTT+17

Discourse is open-source forum software for community discussion, support, and knowledge sharing, with moderation tools, customization, and built-in chat.

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Flarum Cloud+11

Chatwoot is an open-source customer support platform with a shared inbox for live chat, email, and messaging channels, plus automation, reporting, and a help center.

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Intercom+19

Postal is an open source mail delivery platform for sending and receiving email, with SMTP support, web-based management, and tools for running your own SendGrid-style se...

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SendGrid+10

Open-source eCommerce platform for B2C and B2B with a modular architecture, headless APIs, and support for multi-store, multi-currency, and extensibility via extensions.

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Shopify+10

OpenProject is an open source project management platform for planning, tracking, and collaborating on work with Gantt charts, agile boards, roadmaps, and time reporting.

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OpenProject (Cloud)+19

Open-source federated social network built around independently run pods, privacy via Aspects, and standard social features; implemented in Ruby on Rails.

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+6

Self-hostable DocuSign alternative to create fillable forms and collect legally binding eSignatures with API and webhooks.

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Docusign+13

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom and web conferencing platform with real-time audio/video, screen sharing, whiteboards, breakout rooms, polling, and reco...

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Zoom+14

Dawarich is a privacy-focused, self-hostable location history tracker and Google Timeline alternative with interactive maps, trips, stats, and data import/export.

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Fog of World+9

Canvas LMS is an open-source learning management system for course delivery, assignments, grading, communication, and integrations for schools and universities.

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Google Classroom+10

Open source, web-based helpdesk for managing customer support tickets across multiple channels like email, chat, phone, and social media.

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Zendesk+19

Solidus is an open-source Ruby on Rails eCommerce framework with a powerful admin, REST API, and extensible architecture for building customizable online stores.

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VTEX+1

Octobox is a self-hostable GitHub notifications manager that adds archiving, starring, enhanced issue/PR context, filters, search, and keyboard-driven triage.

Stringer is a self-hosted RSS reader built on Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, offering keyboard shortcuts and a Fever-compatible API for use with supported mobile clients.

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Feedly+7

Judge0 CE is an open-source, sandboxed online code execution system with an HTTP JSON API for running untrusted code in many programming languages at scale.

Feedbin is a web-based RSS reader for organizing and reading feeds with full-text extraction, powerful search, filtering actions, and a REST-like API for clients.

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Feedly+19

Canine is an open source Kubernetes deployment platform that provides a Heroku-like PaaS experience with Git-driven deploys, web UI management, and built-in SSL and secre...

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Heroku+10

Open-source web and API service to create encrypted, single-view links for sharing secrets with configurable expiry and optional passphrase protection.

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Onetime Secret+6

OpenStreetMap is a community-built map of the world with a web interface and APIs for editing, browsing, and accessing open geographic data.

Loomio is a collaborative decision-making tool for group discussions, proposals, and polls, helping teams make transparent decisions asynchronously with a clear record.

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Diligent Boards+16

AnyCable is a realtime server for reliable two-way communication over WebSockets and SSE, designed to power chats, notifications, presence, and streaming updates for any...

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Socket.IO Cloud+4

Open-source Ruby on Rails blogging and publishing platform (formerly Typo) with themes, plugins, multilingual support and an official demo.

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WordPress.com+9

Manyfold is a self-hosted web app to organize, preview, and share 3D models for 3D printing, with tagging, metadata, and disk reorganization tools.

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Thingiverse+8

Open source ecommerce marketplace for farmers, food producers, co-ops, and food hubs to sell local produce online and manage orders, customers, and distribution.

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MarketMan+2

Open-source Rails web app for David Allen's GTD: manage next actions, contexts, projects, tags, feeds and statistics; Docker-friendly and multi-user.

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Todoist+16

Self-hosted project management with kanban boards, issue tracking, multiple views, and built-in time tracking and reports.

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Trello+19

OSEM (Open Source Event Manager) is a web app for managing conferences, including call for papers, scheduling, registration, ticketing, and event splash pages.

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pretalx Hosted+14

Self-hosted Ruby on Rails web interface to browse and manage Docker Registry (HTTP API v2) repositories, tags, and manifests, with optional tag deletion.

Self-hosted meme search engine that indexes images with local AI captions and vector embeddings for fast semantic and keyword search, tagging, and filtering.

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Google Photos+5