Deploy Your Own SaaS
Curated list of self-hosted replacements for SaaS
Description
The subscription list gets longer every month: storage, notes, passwords, image hosting, boards, RSS. None of them is expensive alone, and together they are a standing bill. The more awkward part is that the data sits with someone else — a price rise is yours to accept, a shutdown is yours to migrate around, and a changed privacy policy is yours to agree to.
This repository states the case plainly: "the cloud" is just someone else computer, so use your own. It is a list organised by need, with dozens of categories — VPN, music streaming, photo hosting, file storage, notes, password management, kanban, mail, RSS, chat, monitoring, home automation — each listing open-source software you can deploy yourself.
What makes it usable is that it does more than name things: every entry carries a one-line description, its GitHub star count and when it was last updated, with a red or green marker telling you whether the project is still alive. Anything untouched for two years is flagged red. Those figures are refreshed by a script, so this is not a list of dead links written years ago. 10k stars, maintained by thirty-odd contributors.
Worth stating plainly: this is a list, not an application. The way to use it is to look up the category of whatever subscription you want to drop, see which self-hosted projects are mature, and go read their deployment docs.
Organised by need: Dozens of categories covering VPN, storage, notes, password management, photos, kanban, mail, RSS, chat, monitoring and home automation.
Activity markers: Each entry shows star count and last commit date, with a green or red light for whether the project is still moving — no need to open every link.
Automatically refreshed: A script re-fetches stars and update times on a schedule, so the list does not decay into a historical snapshot.
Self-hostable only: The inclusion rule is that you can run it on your own server or home hardware; managed services are out of scope.
A wanted list too: The MostWanted file records categories still lacking a mature self-hosted option, which is a good place to pick a project.
Community maintained: Thirty-plus contributors add and prune entries through pull requests rather than one person writing it once.
This repository states the case plainly: "the cloud" is just someone else computer, so use your own. It is a list organised by need, with dozens of categories — VPN, music streaming, photo hosting, file storage, notes, password management, kanban, mail, RSS, chat, monitoring, home automation — each listing open-source software you can deploy yourself.
What makes it usable is that it does more than name things: every entry carries a one-line description, its GitHub star count and when it was last updated, with a red or green marker telling you whether the project is still alive. Anything untouched for two years is flagged red. Those figures are refreshed by a script, so this is not a list of dead links written years ago. 10k stars, maintained by thirty-odd contributors.
Worth stating plainly: this is a list, not an application. The way to use it is to look up the category of whatever subscription you want to drop, see which self-hosted projects are mature, and go read their deployment docs.
Features
Organised by need: Dozens of categories covering VPN, storage, notes, password management, photos, kanban, mail, RSS, chat, monitoring and home automation.
Activity markers: Each entry shows star count and last commit date, with a green or red light for whether the project is still moving — no need to open every link.
Automatically refreshed: A script re-fetches stars and update times on a schedule, so the list does not decay into a historical snapshot.
Self-hostable only: The inclusion rule is that you can run it on your own server or home hardware; managed services are out of scope.
A wanted list too: The MostWanted file records categories still lacking a mature self-hosted option, which is a good place to pick a project.
Community maintained: Thirty-plus contributors add and prune entries through pull requests rather than one person writing it once.
