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    selfh.st

    selfh.st · Publication · on HN since 2023

    Publisher of a newsletter and directory covering self-hosted software, with weekly news, app roundups and user surveys.

    Visit blogHN submissions
    Open Source & LinuxDevOps & Cloud
    What HN says

    HN commenters recommend it as a maintained directory for finding open and closed source software to run yourself.

    Stats for nerds
    37HN people shared it
    25linked in comments
    417story points
    Apr 2026last shared
    2024people per year2026

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Browse Self-Hosted Software
      10 people · 157 points · first shared 2024 · 61 comments on HN
    2. 2
      My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024
      2 people · 121 points · first shared 2025 · 33 comments on HN
    3. 3
      You are all a bunch of sick freaks
      2 people · 56 points · first shared 2025 · 16 comments on HN
    4. 4
      A Directory of Self-Hosted Software
      2 people · 56 points · first shared 2024 · 4 comments on HN
    5. 5
      My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025
      2 people · 10 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
    6. 6
      2025 Self-Host User Survey Results
      2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Notion
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      A Collection of Self-Hosted Dashboard Icons
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2024 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      This Week in Self-Hosted (25 August 2023)
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      This Week in Self-Hosted: The latest in self-hosted news
      8 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • windexh8erDec 2024

      Most people will use nginx-proxy [0] or Traefik [1] for front ending home labs with LetsEncrypt certs... Beyond that people will protect them with things like Tailscale [2], Cloudflare Tunnels [3] or even just mTLS [4] for protected access.

      Home labbing today has a lot of amazing software and it's hard to keep up!

      And as for dashboarding [5] on top of all this there are a lot of options.

      Also, for those new to the game who want an easier way to approach take a look at Tipi [6].

      [0] https://nginxproxymanager.com/ [1] https://traefik.io/traefik/ [2] https://tailscale.com [3] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/ [4] https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi-yubikey/ [5] https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Dashboard [6] https://runtipi.io/

    • austin-cheneyApr 2026

      Pull requests are a core feature of git, the protocol, so I think you probably mean certain PR features more than just PRs.

      Issue trackers can be self-hosted from fully mature applications via docker images. You might find something here: https://selfh.st/apps/

      CI is typically actioned from a configuration file in your repository to a CI SAAS solution, which could be anything. Travis CI was popular for a long time. When I was big into CI SAAS my favorite was Semaphore CI.

    • cuu508Apr 2024

      From https://selfh.st/apps-about/ –

      > How can I add my project to the list?

      > Feel free to reach out and share the details of your project with me.

      > Note that I will not manually intervene with the order in which your project is displayed. The current sort options (repository stars, last activity, alphabetical) are an objective method for displaying projects without personal bias.

    • skoskieFeb 2025

      This product looks awesome and the mobile app looks exceptional. But if it’s not self-hosted and in some kind of standard format,you’re SOL when the company shuts down. Even though you can export your data, where are you supposed import it to?

      Here are some possible alternatives: https://selfh.st/alternatives/notion/

    • BrainspackleApr 2024

      This was my first thought. With projects like the "awesome lists of..." stuff too, I feel those do a pretty good job of distilling the more popular or in demand projects to browse through. Then you've got places popping up around those, like https://selfh.st/apps/ (which I just discovered via HN a week or two ago)

    • breputJun 2025

      Has it? How many PiHole, ESPHome, and other random Raspberry Pi Home Assistant "servers" are out there? I suspect it has never been more popular.

      On a related note, I'm enjoying the Self-Host Weekly newsletter[0], which is full of random open source self-hosting products.

      [0] https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-06-27/

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