The stack I actually use.

Affine

Affine is a next-generation knowledge base that offers a local-first, self-hosted, and collaborative workspace. It aims to combine the functionalities of tools like Notion and Miro into a single, versatile platform with enhanced data privacy and control.

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HeyForm

HeyForm is an open-source form builder designed for small business success. It allows users to create engaging, customizable forms to collect and analyze data, integrate with various applications, and simplify workflows.

Keycloak Theme Builder

A visual no-code builder that generates fully valid Keycloak v26 FTL login themes. Customize colors, fonts, logos, and per-client branding — then export a deployment-ready ZIP.

Netdata

Netdata provides real-time, per-second monitoring and troubleshooting for systems and applications. It offers autonomous monitoring with self-learning AI built-in, operating independently across your entire stack, aiming for 80% faster incident resolution.

OpenCode

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that helps developers write code in their terminal, IDE, or desktop. It supports multiple LLM providers and editors while prioritizing user privacy by not storing any code or context data.

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What I install first.

Ackee

Ackee is a self-hosted, Node.js based web analytics platform focused on privacy. It provides website metrics without the use of cookies, user tracking, or personal identifiers, ensuring user anonymity while still providing valuable insights.

Agent Ready

A Cloudflare tool that helps website owners understand how to optimize their sites for AI agents, covering authentication, content control, format, and payment mechanisms.

AnonAddy

AnonAddy is an open-source, privacy-focused email aliasing and forwarding platform. It allows users to create unlimited aliases, encrypt forwarding, use custom domains, and deploy full self-hosted instances for enhanced email privacy and security.

Apache Spark

An open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing with streaming, SQL, machine learning, and graph processing capabilities.

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Appwrite

Appwrite is an open-source backend server that provides essential services for web and mobile app development. It offers features like authentication, databases, file storage, functions, and realtime APIs, enabling developers to build scalable applications faster. Deployment is self-hosted via Docker and Kubernetes.

Authelia

Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server providing multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for web applications. It acts as an OpenID Connect 1.0 Provider and companion for reverse proxies, offering secure access management.

AutoKitteh

The Swiss Army knife of workflow automation, allowing effortless building, deployment, and management of durable workflows for both simple tasks and complex processes.

Backrest

Backrest is a web-based dashboard designed for managing PostgreSQL backups using pgBackRest. It offers configuration, scheduling, and restore operations within self-hosted environments, simplifying database backup management.

Baserow

Baserow is an open-source no-code database platform that offers a spreadsheet-like interface for building collaborative databases and applications. It is available for self-hosted deployment or as a hosted service, providing flexibility and control over your data.

Beszel

Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring dashboard providing real-time CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics across multiple machines. It offers a web-based interface for monitoring Docker stats, historical data, and configurable alerts.

Bitvise SSH Client

Bitvise SSH Client is a free SSH client for Windows. It provides secure remote access via SSH, SFTP, and tunneling capabilities.

Blocky

A fast and lightweight DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go. Improves network performance with customizable blocking, caching, and modern DNS protocol support.

BookStack

BookStack is a self-hosted documentation and knowledge base platform. It offers a user-friendly GUI with a book, chapter, and page hierarchy, providing a nice alternative to wikis for organizing and sharing information.

Cal

A developer-friendly, open-source scheduling platform for managing bookings, appointments, and meetings with integrations and customizable features.

CapRover

CapRover simplifies Docker application deployment with a one-click PaaS platform, featuring a web interface and CLI for managing web apps, databases, and static sites on self-hosted servers.

CasaOS

CasaOS is a personal cloud operating system focused on delivering a simple personal cloud experience around the Docker ecosystem. It allows you to connect all your data, access your server anytime, anywhere, and manage backups easily, providing a user-friendly interface for managing Docker applications.

Checkmate

Self-hosted uptime and performance monitoring platform that checks websites and APIs, sends downtime alerts, and provides dashboards for visualizing availability history and performance metrics.

Chirpy

Chirpy is an open source, privacy-friendly comment system that serves as a modern Disqus alternative for websites and online communities.

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Clawdbot

Clawdbot is an AI assistant that automates tasks like clearing your inbox, sending emails, managing your calendar, and checking you in for flights. It operates via chat apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, providing a personal AI experience on your own machine.

Cloudflare R2

Cloudflare R2 is a distributed object storage service that offers developers a globally distributed, highly performant, and cost-effective storage solution. It's designed to be compatible with the Amazon S3 API, allowing for easy migration and integration.

Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a cloud-based platform that provides end-to-end media management solutions, including image and video storage, transformation, optimization, and delivery. It simplifies the process of handling media assets for websites and applications.

CodeAgents

A centralized platform to learn and compare major AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode through interactive simulators, quizzes, and side-by-side comparisons.

CodeWiki

CodeWiki is a documentation tool, originally developed at Google, for creating and managing software documentation. It aims to provide a centralized and collaborative platform for developers to document their code and share knowledge.

CoreControl

Self-hosted control center for managing servers and services, providing monitoring, command execution, and a web dashboard for centralized system administration.

Crikket

Crikket is an open-source bug reporting tool that helps teams capture, annotate, and share bug reports with all the necessary technical context in one click. It provides an alternative to tools like jam.dev and marker.io, focusing on streamlining the bug reporting process.

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Documenso

Documenso provides enterprise-grade e-signature capabilities for everyone. It offers fully compliant signatures out of the box, ready to use or to be built upon. It delivers a frictionless signing experience for users at any scale.

Dozzle

Dozzle is a self-hosted application for monitoring and logging Docker containers in real-time. It provides shell access, multi-host support, alerts, and SQL-based log analysis capabilities.

EMQX

EMQX is a scalable MQTT broker for IoT messaging, delivering high-performance real-time communication with security and management features.

Ganache

Ganache is a local blockchain simulator for Ethereum development. It allows developers to safely and easily test smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps) before deploying to a public network.

Ghost

Ghost is an open-source blogging platform and CMS focused on publishing, newsletters, and memberships. It offers a rich editor, theme customization, and tools for managing subscriptions and content.

GitLens

GitLens supercharges Git within VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, providing contextual annotations, interactive visualizations, and AI-powered capabilities. It's designed to enhance developer workflows and help teams ship better code faster.

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Googlebot Checker

This tool helps you check if your website's HTML content is being cut off by the Googlebot indexing bot due to the 2MB crawl limit. It ensures that your important content is fully indexed by Google.

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Iconscout

Iconscout is a design resources marketplace that offers a wide range of high-quality icons, illustrations, 3D assets, and stock photos. It provides a platform for designers to find and download resources for their projects, and also allows creators to sell their work.

Infisical

Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets management platform. It helps developers manage and protect their secrets across environments, ensuring secure and reliable access to sensitive data.

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InvoiceShelf

InvoiceShelf is a comprehensive invoice management and automation software designed to streamline invoicing, payment tracking, and reporting. It helps businesses create professional invoices, manage expenses, and get paid faster.

Kaggle

Kaggle is a data science and machine learning community that offers competitions, datasets, notebooks, and learning resources. It allows users to collaborate, learn, and compete in solving data science challenges.

Keyshade

Keyshade helps you securely synchronize your API keys and .env files across teams. It uses public key encryption for real-time secret management and offers zero-config rotation and version control for your credentials.

Learn Your Way

Learn Your Way is an interactive experience on Google Labs that uses generative AI to reimagine textbooks. It offers a novel approach to learning, aiming to improve learning outcomes through personalized and adaptive content.

Lens

Lens is a powerful debugging tool for Node.js applications. It provides a UI to inspect requests, database queries, and more, right from your browser. It supports Express, Fastify, NestJs and AdonisJS.

LetterFeed

LetterFeed is a self-hosted platform for publishing newsletters, aggregating them into a single feed. It allows receiving newsletters through dedicated email addresses and exposes them as RSS feeds for easy consumption.

Marble

Marble is a simple way to manage your blog and media. Write, upload, and publish with a clean interface and simple API.

Medusa

Medusa is a flexible, open-source commerce platform for developers and agents. It's built to be customized by developers and AI, offering a framework for building unique commerce experiences and workflows.

Memos

Lightweight self-hosted note-taking and knowledge sharing platform with markdown support, embeds, and searchable memos focused on privacy.

Obsidian

Obsidian is a powerful local Markdown vault application that features backlinks, a graph view, and a large plugin ecosystem. It is designed for personal knowledge management (PKM), documentation, code snippets, and building a 'second brain' workflow.

Oday Explain

Oday Explain is a free online whiteboard tool designed to help users visualize and share ideas, co-create solutions, and present them to others. It offers features like workspaces, canvases, and online sharing capabilities, all available for free.

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OpenCut

OpenCut is an open-source, privacy-first video editor designed for simplicity and ease of use. It's a cross-platform tool that aims to provide powerful editing capabilities without unnecessary complexity, making it accessible to a wide range of users.

Openfang

Openfang is an open-source agent operating system. It's designed as a full operating system for autonomous agents, built from scratch in Rust, rather than a chatbot framework or orchestrator.

OpnForm

OpnForm is a user-friendly form builder that allows you to create and share forms quickly without coding. It offers a generous free plan with unlimited forms, fields, and responses, making it an accessible solution for various form needs.

Papermark

Papermark is an open-source, self-hostable DocSend alternative. It allows for secure link-based document sharing with built-in analytics and custom domains, giving you control over your document sharing process.

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PostHog

PostHog is a Product OS that helps product engineers build successful products. It offers product analytics, session replay, feature flags, and more, all in one platform. It aims to provide a single source of truth about your customers.

Reactive Resume

Reactive Resume is a free and open-source resume builder that simplifies the process of creating, updating, and sharing your resume. It offers a variety of templates and customization options, allowing users to create professional-looking resumes without any cost.

SafeLine

SafeLine is a self-hosted Web Application Firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy designed to protect web applications from various attacks and exploits. It filters and monitors HTTP traffic to block malicious requests and prevent unauthorized data from leaving the app.

Scrutiny

Scrutiny is a self-hosted S.M.A.R.T monitoring system for hard drives. It provides dashboards, alerts, and analytics to track storage device health and reliability, ensuring data safety and preventing potential failures.

Sharp

A high-performance Node.js image processing library for fast and efficient manipulation of images.

Shoogle

Shoogle is a tool that allows you to search for components across multiple Shadcn UI libraries. It simplifies the process of finding the right UI elements for your projects by aggregating components from various sources.

SiYuan

SiYuan is a privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management system. It supports complete offline usage and end-to-end encrypted data sync. Fuse blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to refactor your thinking.

StatusDock

StatusDock is a modern, self-hosted status page solution. It keeps your users informed with real-time service status updates, incident tracking, and automated notifications. It is built with Next.js and Payload CMS, giving you full control over your data and infrastructure.

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Stitch

A cloud-based data integration platform that simplifies ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) workflows for replicating data from sources to destinations.

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Tailscale

Tailscale is a zero config VPN that installs on any device in minutes. It creates a secure, private network between your devices, no matter where they are.

Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior is a command-line task manager that helps you manage your tasks efficiently via the terminal. It is a free and open-source tool for task tracking and organization.

Teleport

Teleport is an Access Plane. It consolidates every aspect of infrastructure access. Teleport provides secure access to servers, applications, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.

Termius

Termius is a modern SSH client designed for productivity and collaboration. It supports macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, offering features like secure sync via encrypted vault, IDE-style autocomplete, and one-click connections to eliminate re-entering credentials.

TinaCMS

TinaCMS is an open-source, Git-backed headless CMS that empowers developers to build customizable content editing experiences directly into their websites. It allows content creators to easily manage and update content with real-time visual editing.

Toggl Track

Toggl Track is a time tracking tool designed to help users analyze productivity and optimize workflows. It allows you to track time spent on various tasks.

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Ubersuggest

Ubersuggest is a comprehensive SEO tool designed to help improve your website's ranking on search engines. It offers features such as keyword research, competitor analysis, site audits, and content ideas to optimize your SEO strategy.

Umami

Umami is a modern, privacy-focused analytics platform. It helps you collect, analyze, and understand your website data, enabling you to focus on growth while respecting user privacy.

Wazuh SIEM

Wazuh is a free, open-source security monitoring solution. It provides threat detection, incident response, and compliance monitoring capabilities by collecting and analyzing security data from endpoints.

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WhoDB

Lightweight, next-gen data explorer with chat-driven querying across multiple databases like Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, and more.

Windmill

An open-source developer platform that turns scripts into webhooks, workflows, and UIs, powered by a high-performance engine.

Zen

Zen is a personal note-taking application designed for focused writing. It uses standard Markdown files stored in a local SQLite database, ensuring no vendor lock-in. It offers features like flexible tags, rich Markdown support, instant search, and offline mode.

Zsh

Zsh is a powerful and highly customizable shell designed for interactive use, scripting, and as a login shell. It offers a wide array of features, including advanced tab completion, extensive theming options, and a robust plugin ecosystem, making it a favorite among developers and power users.