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Discover the 9️⃣ Best Self-Hosted, Open-Source Repositories on GitHub 💫

Saurabh Rai on November 28, 2023

What is Self Hosted Software? A self-hosted project refers to software, applications, or services installed, managed, and operated from ...
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Saurabh Rai

Creating this article was fun, and I learned about many different self-hosted open-source startups and big projects/ventures by indie developers.

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Garimu Alonso

How do you create images like this?

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Saurabh Rai

DALLE - 3. But you can do, Bing Image Gen as well.

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Johann Abberton

A lot of image-generation tools are there. Midjourney is the finest.

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Saurabh Rai

Yeah, Deepfloyd also exists

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Cost-Effectiveness 💰: More budget-friendly in the long run. Self-hosting cuts down on recurring cloud service fees, making it an intelligent choice for startups mindful of expenses.

But does this also mean that scaling will be at our own cost?

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Saurabh Rai

Yes, if you are hosting or integrating any of these services in your app/software. And if you experience a surge in demand, then yes. It's going to be at your cost.

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Nathan Tarbert

This is awesome!

Thanks so much for listing BoxyHQ among this list of amazing services!

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Saurabh Rai

You're welcome @nathan_tarbert, Jackson has enterprise-grade features and is pretty stable, plus open-source.

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Biplob Sutradhar

🔥🔥🔥 list... Curious about MeetFAQ..

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Saurabh Rai

Thanks a lot Biplob!
Yes, MeetFAQ is great 👍

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annaredbond

Love the attention to self-hosted! The control and compliance of self-hosting can be so so important

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Saurabh Rai

Yes, @annaredbond, Self Hosted OSS is an essential part. They're here to stay!

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flyingCrp

Thanks for your list. so cool.
and Is there a list for personal use?
I bought two ECS at a low price

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Saurabh Rai

Yes, most of the software is open source with Apache 2.0 license. Therefore allowing for personal usage. How did you get ECS at a low price?

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Yafuso Bera

Nice list of self hosted repositories, and thanks for explaining about the terms since it gets thrown around a lot.

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Saurabh Rai

Thanks 🤩

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Ori Roza

Thanks looks great!

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Saurabh Rai

You're welcome!

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Bap

Big fan of SWIRL!

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Saurabh Rai

Yes, same here!! Swirly Swirl!!

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Jester

Pretty big list. 💀

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Saurabh Rai

Thanks :)

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Matija Sosic

Thanks for the mention! (Wasp)

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Saurabh Rai

You're welcome!

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Neha Sharma

Great list, would like to know more recommendations from the comments.

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Neha Sharma

Awesome list! How do you find such repositories?

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Saurabh Rai

GitHub, Quine, OpenSauced, LibHunt these are the places.

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Liyas Thomas

We are building an open source {self-hostable} Postman alternative: Hoppscotch - API request builder for web.

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

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Nevo David

Awesome list!
love seeing MeetFAQ and Clickvote 🎉

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Saurabh Rai

You're the only Indie Dev working on 2-3 projects. I appreciate your efforts towards the OSS Community and the helpful work MeetFAQ will be doing.

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Utpal Nadiger

This is super helpful. Thanks for curating this list @srbhr!

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Saurabh Rai

You're welcome @utpalnadiger :)

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Geri Máté

Great list, I'm a fan of Clickvote!

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Saurabh Rai

Great concept and awesome tool. Thanks for liking the list.