Self-hosted projects using Rust

IronCalc is a modern open-source spreadsheet engine for building and embedding spreadsheets, with XLSX reading/writing and language bindings including WebAssembly.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Google Docs+3

Dim is a self-hosted media manager that indexes, organizes, and beautifies your media libraries with a modern web UI for browsing and playback.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Plex+6

Efficient, minimal collaborative code editor with real-time editing in the browser, OT-based syncing, WebSocket communication, and optional SQLite persistence.

MITLikely dormant

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Replit+5

Ryot is a self-hosted personal tracking platform for media, workouts, and daily habits, with analytics, integrations, and an API for your own data.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MyFitnessPal+12

Svix is an open-source webhook service that handles event ingestion, signing, retries, and endpoint management with scalable delivery and client libraries.

MITActively maintained

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Svix+6

Stoat is an open-source, self-hostable chat platform for communities and teams, offering text channels, permissions, moderation tools, and a web app.

Actively maintained

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Discord+13

Enterprise-grade zero-trust access management platform providing WireGuard VPN with true protocol-level 2FA/MFA, plus integrated OpenID Connect SSO and user/device controls.

Actively maintained

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Defguard Cloud+19

Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server for browsing and streaming your personal music collection from web browsers and mobile devices, with multi-user support.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+9

Self-hosted server for comics, manga, and digital books with a built-in web UI, OPDS catalog support, and a REST API for library browsing and reading.

MITActively maintained

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Comixology+7

SQLPage is a fast SQL-only web app builder that turns .sql files into interactive web pages and APIs on top of your existing database.

MITActively maintained

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Retool+19

Static Web Server (SWS) is a lightweight, cross-platform Rust web server for serving static files with HTTP/2, TLS, compression, caching headers, and SPA fallbacks.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Apache HTTP Server+5

A Rust-written, memory-safe web server offering automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, KDL configuration, HTTP/2/HTTP/3, reverse proxying, and built-in tooling for serving web apps.

MITActively maintained

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Apache HTTP Server+3

Self-hosted service to centralize, manage, and play your DRM-free and emulation game library across desktop and web clients, with automatic scanning and metadata.

Open source Linux server OS with a web UI and marketplace for installing, configuring, monitoring, and backing up self-hosted services.

MITActively maintained

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Umbrel+15

Self-hosted email archiving server that syncs from IMAP, stores a local compressed archive, and provides fast full-text search via Web UI and REST API.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MailStore Server+3

Oxker is a Rust-based TUI for monitoring and managing Docker containers, including logs viewing, filtering, sorting, and common container actions.

MITActively maintained

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Docker+2

Kubetail is a real-time Kubernetes logging dashboard and CLI that merges multi-container workload logs into a single timeline, running on desktop or inside your cluster.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Datadog Log Management+9

Open source headless CMS and real-time graph database with schema tooling, full-text search, tables, documents, files, and SDKs for web apps.

Actively maintained

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Contentful+12

Self-hosted, client-side encrypted note and file sharing service inspired by PrivNote, with view/time limits and an optional CLI client.

MITActively maintained

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Privnote+2

Hook0 is an open-source Webhooks-as-a-Service platform to send events via a single API call with subscriptions, retries, persistence, and monitoring.

Actively maintained

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Svix+5

Lightweight self-hosted cloud storage with end-to-end encryption, chunked file transfer, private search, and secure share links via a web UI.

Actively maintained

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Dropbox+15

Open-source Rust-based CLI to parse, scale, search, import and serve Cooklang recipes; generates shopping lists, reports, and a browsable web UI.

MITActively maintained

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Paprika Recipe Manager+6

Cup is a lightweight Rust tool with a CLI and web UI to check Docker container image updates across registries, designed to avoid exhausting registry rate limits.

Open source game server hosting and management tool with a web dashboard, file manager, real-time status, and user permissions for Minecraft and other multiplayer servers.

AGPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Pterodactyl Panel (Cloud)+4

Lightweight single-binary Rust pastebin and file-upload server with expiring and one-shot links, URL shortening, MIME detection and simple token auth.

MITActively maintained

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Pastebin+5

Websurfx is a self-hostable meta search engine in Rust that aggregates results from multiple sources with a modern UI, caching, filtering, and privacy-focused defaults.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Search+6

PinePods is a self-hosted podcast management server with multi-user support, gPodder sync, smart playlists, and apps for web, mobile, desktop, and CLI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Spotify+2

Chhoto URL is a lightweight, high-performance self-hosted URL shortener in Rust, focused on simplicity, speed, and minimal features.

MITActively maintained

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Bitly+12

High-performance Rust proxy supporting HTTP/SOCKS5 forwarding, transparent proxying, TLS MITM, ICAP integration, ACLs, auth, and observability features.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Bright Data+10

Bencher is a continuous benchmarking suite with a CLI, API server, and web console to track benchmark results over time and catch performance regressions in CI.

Actively maintained

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CodSpeed+1