Self-Hosted Apps Licensed BSD-3-Clause

6 self-hostable apps released under BSD-3-Clause you can run on your own server — compared on specs, deployment difficulty, and the SaaS each one replaces.

Backend & BaaS

Appwrite

Batteries-included backend-as-a-service with auth, databases, storage, functions, messaging, and realtime — a self-hosted, Docker-based alternative to Firebase.

PHPMongoDB

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VPN & Mesh Networking

Headscale

An open-source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server — run your own coordination plane for a private WireGuard mesh and keep using the official Tailscale clients, without depending on Tailscale's hosted service.

Go

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Monitoring

Healthchecks

A cron job and background task monitor: your scheduled jobs ping a URL when they finish, and Healthchecks alerts you when the ping does not arrive on time. It watches jobs from the inside — the dead-man's-switch half of monitoring that endpoint checkers miss entirely.

PythonDjangoPostgreSQL

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Pastebin

MicroBin

A small, self-contained pastebin and file-sharing server: paste text or upload a file, get a short link, optionally with an expiry, a password, client-side end-to-end encryption or a burn-after-reading limit. A single Rust binary with a built-in admin page.

Rust

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VPN & Mesh Networking

NetBird

An open-source WireGuard-based mesh VPN that connects your devices, servers, and clouds into a single private network with SSO and access controls — a self-hostable alternative to Tailscale and Twingate. The client is BSD-3-licensed; the self-hosted control-plane components (management, signal, relay, combined) are AGPL-3.0.

Go

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Sa

E-commerce

Saleor

A headless, GraphQL-first commerce platform: products and variants, multi-channel and multi-currency selling, checkout, orders, warehouses and promotions, run from a React admin Dashboard. The stack is a Python and Django API, Celery workers, PostgreSQL and a Redis-compatible cache; it ships the API and Dashboard, not a customer-facing storefront, so you build or adopt one against the GraphQL API. The API and the Dashboard are both BSD-3-Clause.

PythonDjangoGraphQLPostgreSQLCelery

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