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Personal finance

Actual Budget

A fast, local-first envelope-budgeting app with optional self-hosted sync. Most people are up and budgeting in minutes — privacy without the spreadsheet.

JavaScriptNode.js

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Bugsink

A deliberately small, self-hosted error tracker that speaks the Sentry SDK protocol — one container, SQLite by default, built to run your team's exception stream on a tiny box instead of an event-priced SaaS bill.

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Glances

A terminal system monitor in the lineage of top and htop, folding CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, sensors and container stats into one adaptive view. It can also serve a web UI and REST API, but it reports on the machine it runs on — it is a system monitor, not a hosted uptime service.

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Password manager

KeeWeb

A self-hostable web and desktop client for KeePass kdbx vault files — not a sync server. You host a single-page app behind your own domain and point it at a vault stored on local disk, WebDAV, or a cloud drive, so there is no database and no account system to run.

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linkding

A clean, fast self-hosted bookmark manager with tags, full-text search, and a browser extension — the easiest way to own your bookmarks.

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Netdata

Real-time, per-second monitoring of systems, containers, and applications with zero-configuration auto-detection and a lightweight C agent.

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Nginx Proxy Manager

Put your self-hosted apps behind clean domains with automatic Let's Encrypt TLS — all from a point-and-click web UI. The fastest way to get HTTPS on a home server without touching a config file.

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AI Chat Interfaces

Ollama

Lightweight local model runner and OpenAI-compatible API server for downloading and serving open LLMs on your own hardware, with optional NVIDIA/AMD GPU acceleration — CPU-only also works for smaller models.

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PocketBase

Open-source backend in a single Go binary — embedded SQLite database, built-in auth, realtime subscriptions, file storage, and an admin dashboard with zero external dependencies.

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