Self-hosting guides

Pick an app. We'll show you exactly how to run it yourself — tested Docker installs, the RAM each one asks for, and the honest difficulty.

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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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Push notifications

Apprise API

A small HTTP API and web UI around the Apprise library: one request fans a notification out to any of the 150+ services Apprise supports, such as Telegram, Discord, Slack, email and ntfy. Configurations can be saved under a key and reused by scripts and apps.

PythonDjango

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Error tracking

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.

PythonDjango

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Monitoring

changedetection.io

Watches web pages for content changes and sends notifications through Apprise to Discord, Slack, Telegram, email, webhooks and more, with CSS/XPath/JSON filters to limit a watch to part of a page. Plain HTTP fetching works out of the box; JavaScript-heavy pages need an optional Playwright/Chrome browser container.

PythonFlask

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Database admin

CloudBeaver

The web edition of DBeaver: a browser-based database manager for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and other JDBC databases, with a SQL editor and a data editor (ER diagrams are in the paid editions).

JavaTypeScriptReact

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Developer tools

code-server

VS Code running on a server and opened in the browser, so you can edit code and use a terminal on a remote machine from any device. It is maintained by Coder and protected by a password by default.

TypeScriptNode.js

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File sharing

copyparty

A file server that shares folders through a web browser with resumable uploads and downloads, and can also serve them over WebDAV, SFTP, FTP/S, TFTP and SMB. It needs only Python, with optional extras for thumbnails, media indexing and audio transcoding.

Python

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Dashboards

Dashy

A personal dashboard for organising links to your self-hosted services, with status checks, widgets, themes and an in-browser config editor; the configuration is stored in a YAML file.

VueNode.js

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E-signature

DocuSeal

A self-hosted document filling and signing platform: turn PDFs into fillable forms with a WYSIWYG field builder, send them to one or more signers, and get back automatically signed PDFs with an audit log.

RubyRailsVue

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