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).

Audio lectures become structured, Markdown-formatted notes in about a minute with ScribeWizard (also known as GroqNotes). Upload an MP3, WAV, or M4A file - or paste a YouTube link - and the app runs a three-stage pipeline on Groq's LPU inference hardware: Whisper Large v3 transcribes the audio, a larger Llama model drafts a comprehensive outline of the material, and a faster Llama model fills each section with detailed content. This scaffolded prompting strategy is the core idea: the strong model handles structure where quality matters most, the fast model handles volume, and Groq's 1200+ tokens-per-second inference keeps the whole process near real time. Output renders as clean Markdown with support for tables and code blocks, and finished notes download as text or PDF. Model selection is configurable - swap in other Groq-hosted open models like Mixtral or Gemma to trade speed against quality or work around rate limits. Built as a single Streamlit app by Benjamin Klieger at Groq, it needs only a Groq API key to run, making it one of the simplest self-hosted AI tools to operate.

100% portability is Nanote's one non-negotiable principle as a self-hosted note-taking app. There is no database - notebooks are plain folders and notes are plain Markdown files on your filesystem, so the same notes remain fully manageable from a terminal, Notepad, or any other editor, and walking away from Nanote costs nothing because your data was never in a proprietary format to begin with. Built with Nuxt and TypeScript around the Milkdown editor, it layers modern conveniences on that plain-file foundation: fast content search across all notes using OS-optimized tooling (ugrep), native Markdown rendering, image and file attachments, and a mobile-friendly layout for reading and editing on a phone. Clever remark directives make plain text interactive - typing ::file inserts an inline upload picker, while ::today, ::now, and ::tomorrow expand to live dates and times. A fully typed REST API with validation covers automation, and access is protected by a configurable secret key. Deployment is one container with three env vars: paths for notes, uploads, and config, all bind-mountable so your Markdown lives wherever you want it - including inside an existing sync setup. AGPL-licensed and actively daily-driven by its author.

"Somewhat lightweight, low-friction" is how Silicon Notes' author describes the personal knowledge base - written after DokuWiki's editor "drove me mad" and no existing wiki quite fit. The philosophy is that small frequent annoyances compound into cognitive load with no return, so everything here is optimized for frictionless daily use. Notes are written in plaintext Markdown and rendered as clean HTML with Pygments syntax highlighting for code blocks; pages get bi-directional relationships (backlinks), so the knowledge base becomes a connected web rather than a folder tree; and full-text plus title search retrieves anything fast. A table of contents lives in the left sidebar - "where it belongs" - editable while you read without scrolling away. Page history tracks revisions for auditing and rollback, JSON export/import keeps everything portable, and the mobile layout is genuinely usable. The stack is deliberately minimal: Python and Flask with Mistune for Markdown and SQLite for storage - no big frameworks, just a few small dependencies. One honest caveat: there is no built-in authentication, so deploy it behind a VPN, private network, or reverse-proxy auth layer. For a solo engineer's brain, it is exactly enough.

Writing docs should feel like editing a modern document, not wrangling Markdown files - CodeX Docs delivers that on Editor.js, the block-styled editor its CodeX team builds and thousands of products use. Content is composed from clean blocks (headings, lists, code, images, embeds) with a UI that reads well on both desktop and mobile, and pages render statically with human-readable, SEO-friendly URLs. Structure is free-form: pages nest to any depth, so a flat FAQ and a deep product manual coexist in one instance, and the UI tunes to fit - collapse sections, hide the sidebar. The operational footprint is deliberately tiny. No database is required: the default driver persists to a local folder, with MongoDB available when you want it, and the whole app configures through one YAML file (overridable with APP_CONFIG_ environment variables) covering title, start page, auth password, and JWT secret. Editing mode sits behind password authentication. Thoughtful extras are wired in: readers can report misprints straight to your Telegram or Slack, Hawk error tracking catches frontend and backend exceptions, and Yandex Metrica analytics is a one-line config. A ready-made Helm chart covers Kubernetes. Written in TypeScript.

Your entire mail system can live in one self-hosted suite with OpenMail, from SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 delivery to three-pane webmail and the admin console that runs it. Standard clients such as Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and phone apps connect over SMTP ports 25, 587, and 465, IMAP ports 143 and 993, and POP3 ports 110 and 995, while people use the three-pane webmail with folder tree, conversation list, and reading pane at port 3000. You read, write, reply, forward, batch-organize, drag messages between folders, filter stars, search sender, subject, and body text, and follow conversations threaded automatically by their References headers. The rich-text composer autocompletes recipients, accepts dragged attachments and pasted screenshots, saves drafts every 12 seconds, sends on a schedule, and inserts reusable templates imported from HTML or generated with AI. Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint can draft replies, translate mail into twelve languages, and summarize messages, with provider keys encrypted on your server. Administrators get real-time mail statistics with 14-day send and receive trends, user quotas and bans, multi-domain aliases and catch-all addresses, outgoing queue visibility, and audit logs. Adding a domain generates DKIM keys and copy-ready SPF, DKIM, and DMARC DNS records with one-click checks, while rule-based spam scoring, TOTP two-factor authentication, and role-based permissions protect accounts in ten interface languages including right-to-left Arabic and Urdu. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

QuickDrop functions as an ephemeral, self-hosted file distribution node and pastebin that eliminates account requirements for rapid data transfers. Users can drag individual files, paste plain text code snippets, or drop entire folder structures while preserving complete directory hierarchies through automated client manifests. Resumable chunked transfers split multi-gigabyte payloads into resilient blocks, ensuring dependable uploads over unstable network connections. Senders can protect sensitive documents with optional AES encryption at rest, individual passphrase requirements, and automatic metadata stripping that removes GPS coordinates and camera EXIF markers. Granular share token policies restrict access by enforce maximum download quotas, burn-after-reading limits, or strict calendar expiration timestamps. In-browser viewers generate instant previews for code syntax, Markdown documentation, PDF reports, audio tracks, and high-resolution images without downloading files locally. Built-in QR code generators allow mobile devices to retrieve shared payloads instantly across local wireless networks. System operators can govern storage lifecycles through an administrative control panel with configurable retention windows, automated background garbage collection, and custom storage caps. 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 to consolidate fragmented digital life into a private personal cloud, Eclaire centralizes tasks, notes, documents, photos, and web bookmarks into a unified workspace powered by local artificial intelligence. Users can save web articles to generate clean Markdown copies and searchable PDF archives, automatically bypassing clutter and dead links. The integrated document ingestion engine extracts tabular data from spreadsheets, performs optical character recognition across uploaded receipts and handwritten images, and indexes multi-page PDF manuals for rapid full-text search. Conversational assistant panels allow operators to interrogate their accumulated library using natural language, asking for cross-document summaries, research timelines, or action items extracted from meeting transcripts. Background workers prioritize asynchronous indexing queues, categorizing image libraries with visual object tags and managing recurring task deadlines with automated Telegram alert notifications. External automation flows can interact directly with the unified storage layer via an OpenAI-compatible REST API, allowing mobile shortcuts and custom scripts to ingest bookmarks and dictate notes remotely. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Insights LM gives you a NotebookLM-style research assistant that runs on your own infrastructure and answers strictly from the documents you feed it. Build a notebook for a project, drop in PDFs, pasted text, website links, and audio files, then ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in those sources rather than the open internet. Every answer carries citations you can click to jump straight to the passage it came from, so verifying a claim takes seconds instead of a fresh search. Findings worth keeping become notes saved alongside the notebook, building a private knowledge base that grows with your research. When reading is too slow, generate an audio overview and listen to two hosts discuss your material like a podcast episode, perfect for absorbing a long report on a walk. Teams use it to interrogate internal documentation, onboard new hires against company knowledge, and brief themselves before meetings without uploading confidential files to a third-party service. Because the whole stack is yours, you choose which AI models do the reading, including local models for fully private work. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

"Get to your most important links, FAST" - Hiccup's README states its whole mission in that one line, and the static start page delivers it. It is a client-side React single-page app - no backend, no database, no accounts - driven entirely by a config.json that defines featured link cards, categorized sections, and search providers. The search bar is the power feature: it queries your own links by name, URL, and tag while simultaneously offering external providers like Google, DuckDuckGo, and Amazon (plus custom URL-template providers you define), with arrow-key navigation and Enter to launch, so muscle memory replaces mousing. Editing happens in the browser - drag and drop links and background images, tweak cards in edit mode - with changes persisting to localStorage; a built-in config manager exports the JSON for hosting, and remote profile loading pulls a shared config across every browser and device you use. Multiple profiles keep home-server, work, and dev-tool link sets separate. PWA support installs it on a phone home screen, caching strategies keep it fast offline, read-only mode suits kiosk displays, and Cmd/Ctrl+/ reveals the full hotkey reference. Serve it from any static host and point your new tab at it.

Real-time collaborative Markdown behind your own firewall: HedgeDoc (formerly CodiMD, descended from HackMD's open-source edition) keeps team notes on team infrastructure. Share a note's URL and collaborators are editing together instantly - live cursors, changes appearing keystroke by keystroke - in a three-mode interface that toggles between raw Markdown, rendered preview, and side-by-side split. The Markdown dialect is extended where engineers need it: Mermaid, Graphviz, and Vega-Lite diagrams, MathJax for equations, syntax-highlighted code blocks, embedded content, and a presentation mode that turns a note into reveal.js slides with a single YAML header. A dropdown permission system controls each note - freely editable, limited to signed-in users, or locked read-only - and published notes become clean read-only pages for wider distribution. Revisions track every change with the ability to revert to any earlier version. The AGPL-3.0 codebase is light enough to run on a Raspberry Pi and deploys via Docker with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite. Authentication covers LDAP, SAML, OAuth2, and email. It deliberately stays a focused document editor - no page trees or kanban - and does that one job with excellent keyboard-first ergonomics for meeting notes, RFCs, runbooks, and shared scratchpads.

DailyHub is one calm page for a single person's whole day: today's open work grouped by project, the habits due this morning, and an inbox that catches everything that does not belong anywhere yet. The Today view greets you with a quick-add box, nudges about what is slipping, and a progress bar that fills as the day gets done. Focus mode pins the projects or tasks that matter and hides the rest until a date you pick or until you clear it, so the full list stops shouting. Projects carry status, due dates, and milestones, wear logos with accent colours derived from them automatically, and raise a banner when work stalls. Habits run on weekday schedules and report back with a 14-day consistency strip and a completion rate, so a streak is something you can see rather than guess. Analytics chart completions over time, break them down per project, and surface the weekday patterns that show when you actually get things done. A command palette jumps to any project, task, habit, or milestone from the keyboard, and light and dark themes keep long planning sessions easy on the eyes. An AI assistant can join through the built-in MCP endpoint: ask what is still open in the inbox, add a task to the website project for Friday, or mark today's workout done. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Codync turns the coding agents already installed on your computer into named bots you can message from your phone, so the Claude Code or Codex session on your desk keeps working while you are away. Each bot wraps one agent in one project folder, with its own standing instructions, memory, and approval rules, and several bots run side by side on one machine. Message any bot from the iPhone app, the desktop app, or a terminal; group rooms put bots in one thread, and an @name mention routes a question to exactly one of them. Bots ask each other for reviews inside the room and quote-reply to specific messages. File changes arrive as approval cards naming the file and computer, with Allow once, Always allow, or Deny; finished and blocked work both ping you as push notifications. The connection between phone and computer is end-to-end encrypted through a free relay, your own relay, or directly over the same Wi-Fi or Tailscale. Watch the computer's screen from your phone, hand a bot a computer-use tool, or talk to it in a voice call, and approve every new device per computer with a six-digit code. Your existing agent subscription does the work; Codync never calls a provider API with your login, and there is no paid tier. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Your contacts live in four different address books; Contrack merges Apple, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook into one self-hosted personal CRM you fully control. Importing merges the address books you already keep, and connecting a calendar or inbox lays past meetings and conversations along each person's timeline. Obvious duplicates merge themselves, borderline matches wait in a side-by-side review with field-level differences highlighted, and every merge can be undone for 90 days. A scribbled note such as 'met at Sarah's wedding, catch up quarterly' turns into fields, tags, dates, and reminders, while optional web research fills in roles and links with cited sources. Each morning, Pulse shows who is due a follow-up, whose birthday lands this week, and which friends have quietly gone a year without contact. Ask Contrack answers plain questions like 'who do I know in Lisbon' or 'who loves natural wine' by searching your notes and contacts locally. The map plots everyone by city, and drawing a loop around a neighborhood before a trip turns a visit into a dinner list in seconds. Households share one server while each profile keeps a private book, and the built-in MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor look up context and log notes for you. One-click verified backups snapshot the whole address book, passkeys handle sign-in, and open exports mean your data leaves whenever you do. 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.