Garlic Hub runs your digital signage network from one self-hosted console, managing the players, the media library, and the playlists behind every screen without per-device fees. Build presentations as SMIL playlists: full-screen master playlists for a single message, reusable internal playlists for shared blocks like opening hours, and multizone layouts that split one display into independent areas. The visual zone editor arranges those areas by percentage or pixels, even overlapping, while the template editor produces image content without leaving the browser. Media arrives from local uploads, external links, screencasts, cameras, or stock platforms, organized in hierarchical folders with bulk actions. Date and time conditions, recurrence, and triggers from touch, key presses, or network messages decide what plays when, and nested playlists can take over by priority. Players fetch updates by polling or receive an immediate push when reachable, and the fleet view shows status at a glance with remote publish, refresh, and screenshot actions. Roles per module, OAuth2 tokens, a REST API, and webhooks let larger operations automate publishing and guard who changes what, in six interface languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Run every TV, menu board, kiosk, and video wall from one browser dashboard with ScreenTinker, a digital signage CMS you host yourself, with no per-screen license fees. Players cover Android TV, Fire TV, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Amazon Vega OS, Roku, Raspberry Pi, Windows, ChromeOS, and any web browser. Upload images and video, turn each PDF page into a slide, or design animated decks in the slide editor with templates, optional voiceover, a music bed, and an optional AI designer that works from a prompt using your own model endpoint. Widgets add clocks, weather, RSS tickers, moderated social walls, live IPTV streams, and iCal or JSON data bound straight into a slide. A weekly calendar handles recurring schedules, priorities, and time zones, and Preview at shows what a given screen will play at any chosen moment. Group screens to push playlists and bulk commands, split displays into zones, or join several panels into a video wall with bezel compensation. Live remote control, CSV proof-of-play reports, and offline email alerts keep a fleet in check, while web and Android players cache content and keep playing through outages. Workspaces, six role levels, optional approval before publishing, OIDC single sign-on, white-label branding on your own domain, and a scoped REST API serve agencies and larger teams. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

An e-ink frame on your kitchen wall should show your calendar, not beg a cloud subscription for permission; Larapaper is the self-hosted TRMNL server that keeps those screens yours. Devices on your network announce themselves and auto-join, and the admin panel tracks each unit's battery, WiFi strength, firmware, and current screen, from the official TRMNL OG and X to SeeedStudio DIY kits, reTerminal panels, Kindle and Kobo e-readers, and Raspberry Pi displays. Content comes from wherever you like: native plugins and recipe mashups, more than a thousand catalog recipes importable from TRMNL and the community, your own Liquid or Blade markup written in the web editor, or a simple POST to the screen API from any script. Playlists rotate screens on a schedule, so the morning shows trains and weather while the afternoon shows the build board. The render pipeline draws with headless Chrome, converts through ImageMagick to each device's exact palette, and caches results so sleepy e-ink clients wake, fetch, and sleep again in seconds. Run it beside the official cloud as a proxy when you want hybrid coverage, on SQLite for a shelf box or Postgres for a fleet, with dark mode in the admin and Docker Compose for deployment. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

The family calendar is split across phones, the meal plan lives in someone's head, and the chore chart fell off the fridge: Home Screens turns a spare screen into a self-hosted family command center that puts calendars, weather, chores, meal plans, and photos on one shared display. You compose each screen in a drag and drop editor, placing any of 46 built in modules on a configurable canvas: clocks in 18 styles, weather in 14 views, calendars, to do lists, news, stock and crypto tickers, sports scores and standings for 15 leagues, traffic, air quality, and moon phases. Screens rotate through seven transitions, and a hub and spoke setup lets one server drive several physical displays, each with its own layout, dimensions, rotation, and scheduled profile. The phone remote wakes or sleeps displays, adjusts brightness, starts visual timers and morning routines, and runs the family organizer: chore charts with rewards, a meal planner with grocery list, shared to do lists, school timetables, and a notes board. Calendars arrive from Google, iCloud, or any iCal feed, weather from nine providers, and backgrounds from your uploads, Unsplash, NASA, Immich, Google Photos, iCloud, or OneDrive. Modules can appear or hide based on live conditions, plugins add new module types from a directory or a URL, and everything is stored locally with no cloud account. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Built for e-ink screens, Tesserae composes calm wall dashboards from your calendar, weather, and Home Assistant data in a browser, then renders each frame at the panel's exact resolution. Lay out pages as a grid of cells or on a free canvas of widgets, text, and shapes, with a live preview. What you see is what paints. Dozens of bundled widgets cover weather, calendars, clocks, news, to-do lists, and photos, and a community catalog adds more widgets, themes, and templates. Frames are dithered to each panel's measured palette, so photos and gradients stay clean on Spectra 6 color, mono, and grayscale screens. One server drives a whole fleet. Each panel keeps its own dashboards, schedules, and rotations, and smart sync renders just before a battery panel wakes while quiet hours let it sleep overnight. Seeed reTerminal and XIAO panels flash from the browser, and Pimoroni Inky, Waveshare, M5Stack, TRMNL-compatible devices, and KOReader Kindles and Kobos work too. Inside Home Assistant it runs as a sidebar App. Home Assistant widgets show entities, history, energy, and cameras, and MQTT discovery turns each panel into a device with its frame, battery level, and signal. No account is needed, and update checks stay off unless you opt in. Ask Claude or any MCP client to lay out a dashboard, check a preview, and push it. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

LobsterBoard lets you assemble custom monitoring dashboards from 50 pre-built widgets using a visual drag-and-drop editor, covering everything from CPU and memory gauges to AI subscription trackers, stock tickers, and camera feeds on your own server with zero cloud dependencies. The snap-grid editor handles layout composition with resize handles and a property panel, so you drag widgets onto a canvas, configure their data sources, and the dashboard is live. Real-time system statistics flow through Server-Sent Events, updating CPU load, memory pressure, disk usage, network throughput, and Docker container status without page refreshes. Five built-in themes range from a dark default to a retro CRT terminal aesthetic, a warm sepia paper look, and pastel options for different display environments. The template gallery lets you export complete dashboard layouts with auto-captured screenshot previews, share them with other users, and import configurations as a full replacement or selective merge. Custom pages extend beyond dashboards into notes, kanban boards, or any free-form layout you need. Built-in widgets connect to iCal feeds for calendar events, RSS sources for news aggregation, weather APIs for local conditions, and financial data providers for cryptocurrency and stock prices. The whole system runs from a single server.cjs file with zero cloud dependencies or external frameworks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. BSL-1.1 licensed (free for non-commercial use; converts to MIT in 2030).

The de facto dashboard of observability: Grafana is the open-source frontend that turns the data stores you already run into interactive graphs. It does not store metrics itself; it connects to the data stores you already run and turns their contents into interactive dashboards. Supported sources number over 150 via plugins: Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Monitoring, and many more. Dashboards are built from a large library of panel types (time series, heatmaps, tables, gauges, logs) with template variables for reusable, parameterized views. Unified alerting evaluates rules against any connected data source, not just Prometheus, and routes notifications to Slack, PagerDuty, email, and other channels with grouping and silencing - unlike Prometheus Alertmanager, a single rule can combine a Loki log pattern, a PostgreSQL query result, and a CloudWatch metric. Dashboards serialize to JSON and data sources configure via provisioning files, so the entire observability setup can live in Git and deploy repeatably across environments. Explore mode adds ad-hoc querying outside dashboards, with split view for correlating a metric spike against the matching log lines, and access control spans organizations, teams, folder permissions, and OAuth, LDAP, and SAML integration. Written in Go and TypeScript, AGPL-licensed. Self-hosting gives you unlimited users, dashboards, and queries at flat hosting cost, without Grafana Cloud's usage-based pricing.

Marble gives your blog, changelog, or product updates a calm editorial home, then hands clean JSON to whatever website you already built. Writers work in a focused rich-text editor with headings, lists, code blocks, images, video, and embeds, while a readability score quietly grades each draft as it grows. Every post carries authors, one category, tags, a cover image, and typed custom fields, so a changelog entry and a long guide can share one predictable structure. Your frontend pulls sanitized HTML or Markdown through the REST API or typed SDK, filtering by category, tag, or search in a single request. Read-only public keys serve published posts safely, while scoped private keys unlock drafts and write access for the tools you trust. Uploads of images, video, audio, and documents land in a media library with alt text and dimensions, ready to embed anywhere. Signed webhooks announce every change to your site, Slack, or Discord with retries and a delivery log, and an MCP server lets AI agents search and draft content too. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

With 37,000 GitHub stars and over 45 million downloads powering 500,000+ deployed projects, Directus is the most widely adopted open-source backend platform that connects to your existing SQL database without requiring schema migrations or data duplication. Point it at PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL, SQLite, OracleDB, or CockroachDB and it instantly generates production-ready REST and GraphQL APIs complete with filtering, sorting, pagination, field selection, and relational queries — all derived from your actual schema with zero configuration. The visual Studio provides a full no-code management interface where non-technical teammates create content, manage assets, build dashboards, and configure access policies without engineering involvement. Field-level granular permissions govern every API request and Studio action through composable policies applied to roles, users, and AI agents identically. A built-in AI Assistant writes copy, translates content across languages, creates records, and routes items for review directly within the Studio interface. The native Model Context Protocol server connects Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible tool to your live data governed by the same access policies. Real-time WebSocket subscriptions push collection changes instantly for collaborative editing and live dashboards. Extensibility covers custom endpoints, hooks, interfaces, displays, layouts, modules, and operations. Deploy via Docker with environment-variable configuration or use Directus Cloud for managed hosting. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. BSL-1.1 licensed with free self-hosting.

If editors should publish without waiting on developers, and developers should keep full control of the design, Umbraco is the free content management system built around that split. A page begins in the Block Grid editor, where reusable blocks nest inside Areas and each block is sized on a column and row grid. Live preview shows the result before anything goes out. Publish and unpublish times can be scheduled in the editor's own time zone, and any page can roll back to an earlier version from its Info tab. One content node can exist in several languages, and split view puts two of them side by side. The Media section holds images, video, and other files. Visitors can register and log in as members, new members can be placed in member groups, and pages can be hidden from anyone not logged in. On the code side, templates and partial views shape the front end, while the opt-in Content Delivery API returns content items as JSON for mobile apps and any other front end. Webhooks notify outside services when content is published, unpublished, or deleted. Custom dashboards and property editors extend the backoffice, and the Marketplace lists open-source and commercial packages for the rest. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Roughly 43% of all websites and over 60% of the CMS market run on WordPress - the GPL-licensed platform that scales from a personal blog to publishing operations and WooCommerce stores. The Gutenberg block editor composes pages from reusable blocks, and full site editing extends block control to headers, footers, and templates; tens of thousands of plugins and themes cover essentially every capability a site might need, from SEO and caching to membership and e-commerce. WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" marks the platform's biggest structural update since Gutenberg itself: a React-based DataViews admin replaces the legacy list tables with instant filtering, a provider-agnostic AI Client API ships with connectors for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, media processing moves into the browser via WebAssembly, and a universal Font Library manages typography across block, hybrid, and classic themes with local hosting for GDPR compliance. New Breadcrumbs, Icons, and lightbox Gallery blocks reduce plugin dependence, and server-side PHP block registration simplifies development. The REST API and WP-CLI make it automatable end to end. Self-hosting is what WordPress was designed for: your content, database, plugin choices, and upgrade schedule stay entirely under your control, free of wordpress.com plan limits.

The leading open-source headless CMS with over 72,800 GitHub stars and more than 20 million npm downloads, Strapi has powered content APIs for thousands of organizations since its creation in 2015, providing a complete backend for websites, mobile applications, IoT devices, and any frontend framework through auto-generated REST and GraphQL endpoints. The visual Content-Type Builder lets editors define collections, single types, components, dynamic zones, and relations without code, while Strapi AI introduced in 2026 generates complete content schemas from natural language descriptions, Figma file uploads, or existing JavaScript application code analysis. Version 5 rewrote the platform with a TypeScript-first architecture, replacing the Entity Service with the Document Service API, switching admin panel builds from Webpack to Vite, and integrating internationalization directly into core with unlimited locale support. Database flexibility spans PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite with automatic migration handling. The media library manages uploads to local storage, Amazon S3, or Cloudinary with image optimization and responsive formats. Granular role-based access control defines permissions per content type, field, and locale. The plugin marketplace extends functionality with GraphQL, SEO, email, custom fields, and community contributions, while lifecycle hooks, custom controllers, and middleware enable arbitrary backend logic. Draft and publish workflows, webhooks for external system integration, API token authentication, data import and export, and CRON job scheduling round out a platform that handles content operations from prototype to production. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Write a post once in LightPost and it goes out to Bluesky, Mastodon, X, Instagram, Threads, Discord, LinkedIn, Telegram, and Facebook Pages on your schedule, with YouTube video uploads handled in the same workspace, from a dashboard running on your own server. The composer fans one message out to every connected account, including several accounts on the same platform, and each destination can receive text, images, or both within that network's limits. Drafts can be saved, edited, and duplicated, and scheduled times follow your browser's timezone so a week of announcements can be queued in one sitting. Images come in from public JPEG links or a saved library, with alt text and a preview before anything ships. Every delivery is tracked per account with links to the published posts, and when one network fails you retry just that destination instead of blasting the successful ones twice. The queue persists across restarts and overdue posts resume on their own, so an overnight reboot never eats a scheduled campaign. Built-in setup guides walk you through eligibility, credentials, and permissions for each platform, account connections can be verified or reconnected from the same panel, and your credentials stay encrypted on your disk with optional password protection and exportable post history. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Passive slide decks put audiences to sleep, which is why Claper turns any presentation into a two-way live session where every attendee can vote in polls, submit questions, and react in real time from their phone. Speakers upload existing PDF or PowerPoint decks directly into the web studio and interleave interactive poll, quiz, form, and web embed slides between their static pages without rebuilding presentations from scratch. Conference organizers and educators share a short join code or QR link so hundreds of participants can enter the attendee room instantly from any mobile browser without installing an app or creating an account. During the talk, the presenter console displays incoming audience questions sorted by upvote popularity, alongside moderation controls to approve, pin, hide, or mark inquiries as answered on the main screen. Live polling supports multiple-choice, rating scale, and open-text prompts that animate into real-time bar charts and percentage breakdowns as votes arrive, while timed quizzes grade participant responses automatically. Integrated real-time speech transcription generates live captions and searchable session transcripts so international and hearing-impaired attendees can follow every spoken word. Universities and corporate training teams connect Claper directly to Moodle or OpenID Connect identity providers via LTI 1.3 to synchronize student rosters, push quiz scores to gradebooks, and export complete CSV engagement reports after every session. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.