Self-Hosted

A collection of 26 posts

Discourse

Discourse + SSO: Implement Single Sign-On with OAuth2 and OIDC

Managing separate logins for your community forum is a headache nobody asked for. Your users already have accounts in your main app, your CRM, or your identity provider. Making them create yet another password for Discourse is friction you can eliminate. Discourse ships with solid SSO support out of the

Taiga

Why Your Team Should Ditch Jira for Taiga

Your project management tool shouldn't cost more than some of your team members. But if you're running Jira for a growing team, you've probably noticed the bills climbing faster than your sprint velocity. Here's the uncomfortable math: Jira Standard runs $7.91/

Apache Superset

Apache Superset + PostgreSQL: Build Executive Dashboards Your Team Will Actually Use

Your company has data. Probably a lot of it. And somewhere, someone is asking for "a dashboard" to make sense of it all. The problem? Tableau costs $70/user/month, and you have a perfectly good PostgreSQL database sitting there, full of insights nobody can access without writing

Self-Hosted

The 2026 Homelab Stack: What Self-Hosters Are Actually Running This Year

Spend five minutes on r/selfhosted or any homelab forum and you'll notice something interesting: the conversations have changed. Two years ago, everyone was asking "what should I run?" Now they're sharing sophisticated stacks that rival small business infrastructure. The self-hosting movement has matured.

Appwrite

The Rise of Open-Source Backend Platforms: Firebase, Supabase, and Appwrite Compared

Something interesting happened in backend development over the past two years. Firebase, once the default choice for startups building their first app, started losing ground to open-source alternatives. Not because Firebase stopped working, but because developers realized they were trading convenience for control. The shift tells a bigger story about

Comparison

Elestio vs Railway vs Render vs Fly.io: Which Platform Actually Fits Your Needs?

If you're looking to deploy applications in 2025, you've probably stumbled across Railway, Render, and Fly.io. They're everywhere in developer discussions, and for good reason. They promise easy deployments, git-push workflows, and that sweet "it just works" experience. But here'

NocoDB

Why Your Team Should Replace Spreadsheets with NocoDB (And Save Hours Every Week)

Somewhere in your company right now, there's a spreadsheet causing problems. Maybe it's the customer list that three people edited simultaneously and now has duplicate rows. Maybe it's the project tracker that grew so complex nobody remembers which formulas depend on what. Or maybe

Uptime Kuma

Why Every Small Business Needs Uptime Monitoring (And How Uptime Kuma Makes It Affordable)

Your website goes down at 2 PM on a Tuesday. You find out three hours later when a customer emails asking why they can't place an order. By then, you've lost sales, frustrated customers, and damaged trust you spent months building. This happens to small businesses

BookStack

Why Your Team Needs a Knowledge Base (And How BookStack Makes It Simple)

Every company has the same problem: knowledge scattered across random Google Docs, outdated Notion pages, and that one Slack message from six months ago that nobody can find. When an employee leaves, they take half the company's knowledge with them. When a new hire joins, they spend weeks

Jitsi

Why Your Business Should Own Its Video Calls (And How Jitsi Makes It Affordable)

Video calls have become the backbone of modern business. Team standups, client presentations, job interviews, board meetings. If your company went remote or hybrid in the past few years, you probably spend hours each week on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. But here's something worth thinking about: every conversation

Development

Gitea Actions: Build Your Own GitHub-Like CI/CD Pipeline Without the Price Tag

GitHub Actions changed how teams think about CI/CD. But at $4 per user per month (and that's just for the Team plan), the costs add up fast. For a 20-person team, you're looking at $960/year before you even run a single pipeline. Here'

Development

Why Your Business Needs Single Sign-On (And How Authentik Makes It Affordable)

Your employees are drowning in passwords. The average worker manages credentials for 70-80 different applications—and that number keeps growing. The result? Sticky notes with passwords, repeated credentials across services, and IT tickets for forgotten logins that never seem to stop. This isn't just an annoyance. It'

Applications

Outline: The Open-Source Notion Alternative Your Team Actually Needs

Your team's knowledge is scattered everywhere. Meeting notes in Google Docs, project specs in Notion, onboarding guides in random Slack threads, and that critical process document... somewhere in someone's email? This is the reality for most growing teams. And honestly? Notion and Confluence were supposed to

Immich

Immich API: Build Custom Photo Workflows and Automate Your Library

I didn't think I'd care about a photo management API. Then I realized my family has 50,000 photos scattered across devices, and Google's AI is training on every single one of them. Immich changed that. It's a self-hosted Google Photos alternative

Slack

We Calculated How Much Slack Actually Costs—Then Found Two Alternatives That Save Teams $15,000/Year

We Calculated How Much Slack Actually Costs—Then Found Two Alternatives That Save Teams $15,000/Year Your CFO just sent that email again. "Can we talk about our software costs?" You know what's coming. Slack is eating 15% of your SaaS budget, and it'

Zulip

Zulip API Integration: Build Custom Bots and Automate Team Notifications

Zulip API Integration: Build Custom Bots and Automate Team Notifications Here's the thing about team chat: the real power isn't in the messages themselves—it's in what you can automate around them. CI/CD pipeline failed? Your team should know instantly. New customer signed

Wekan

Why Your Team Should Ditch Trello for a Self-Hosted Kanban Board

Why Your Team Should Ditch Trello for a Self-Hosted Kanban Board You know that moment when your entire marketing team is staring at a blank screen because Trello is down? Or when finance asks why you're paying $12.50 per user per month for what's essentially

LobeChat

The Best Open-Source ChatGPT Interfaces: LobeChat vs Open WebUI vs LibreChat

The ChatGPT interface has become the standard for how we interact with AI. That clean chat bubble layout, the markdown rendering, the ability to switch models mid-conversation—we all expect it now. Here's what's interesting: that interface is no longer proprietary. A wave of open-source projects

Supabase

Supabase Authentication: Implement OAuth, Magic Links and Row-Level Security

Authentication is the part of building apps that nobody wants to deal with. You'd rather be shipping features, not debugging why OAuth tokens expire at 3 AM. That's exactly why Supabase Auth exists. It handles the painful stuff—OAuth providers, passwordless magic links, session management—so

Penpot

Why Penpot Is the Open-Source Figma Alternative Your Design Team Needs

Your design tool bill just went up. Again. If you're running a small agency, a startup, or even a marketing team that dabbles in UI mockups, you've probably noticed that Figma's pricing keeps climbing. In 2025, teams are facing 40% higher costs year-over-year. For

InfluxDB

InfluxDB + Telegraf: Build a Complete Metrics Pipeline for Your Infrastructure

If you're still using Prometheus for everything, you're probably overcomplicating your life. Don't get me wrong—Prometheus is fantastic for certain workloads. But when you need to store millions of metrics per second with flexible retention policies and actually query them without pulling your

Meilisearch

Why Your Website Needs Instant Search (And How Meilisearch Makes It Easy)

Have you ever visited an online store, typed something in the search bar, and waited... and waited... only to get results that didn't match what you were looking for? You probably left. Most people do. Here's the thing: users expect Google-speed search everywhere they go. When

zammad

Why Your Small Business Needs a Real Ticketing System (And How Zammad Delivers)

Let me paint a picture you probably recognize: customer emails scattered across three different inboxes, support requests buried in social media DMs, and that one urgent issue from last Tuesday that somehow slipped through the cracks. Sound familiar? If you're running a small business and still managing customer

Zep

Zep + LangChain: Give Your AI Assistant Persistent Memory

Your chatbot has amnesia. Every time a user starts a new session, your AI assistant forgets everything—their name, preferences, previous conversations, all of it. Gone. You're essentially building a goldfish with a PhD. This isn't a minor inconvenience. It's why your customer support

AI

Why Private AI Is the Biggest Self-Hosting Trend of 2025

Why Private AI Is the Biggest Self-Hosting Trend of 2025 Something interesting happened this year. While everyone was obsessing over ChatGPT subscriptions and Claude API bills, a quiet revolution was brewing in home offices and server rooms around the world. People started running their own AI. Not toy projects. Not