Self-Hosted Khoj: AI Over Your Docs, Not Just Another Chat Box
Khoj indexes PDFs and notes, runs custom agents, schedules research automations, and connects to local or cloud LLMs — your AI second brain on pgvector and Docker.
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Self-Hosted File Browser: Your Server's Files in a Browser, Nothing Else
File Browser is a lightweight Go web file manager — upload, share, and preview files on a mounted directory without Nextcloud overhead or Dropbox seats.
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Self-Hosted Trilium: One Note in Three Places Without Copy-Paste
Trilium Notes is a hierarchical PKM with note cloning, scripting, E2E-protected notes, and Docker sync on port 8080 — your second brain on a Canadian VPS.
Read articleSelf-Hosted ToolJet: Internal Dashboards When Engineering Has No Bandwidth
ToolJet is AGPL low-code for admin panels and dashboards — 80+ data sources, built-in database, JavaScript and Python, Docker with dual Postgres and Redis.
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Self-Hosted Reactive Resume: CVs Without Shipping Your Job History to SaaS
Reactive Resume is a free MIT-licensed resume builder — live preview, PDF export, share links, and Docker on 2 GB RAM for career centres and privacy-conscious job seekers.
Read articleSelf-Hosted PhotoPrism: AI Photo Search on the Files You Already Have
PhotoPrism indexes your existing photo folders — RAW, faces, maps, and powerful search — without uploading your archive to Google or rebuilding it from scratch.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Appsmith: Admin Panels Without a Six-Week Backlog
Appsmith is open-source low-code for internal tools — drag-and-drop dashboards wired to Postgres, REST APIs, and 25+ databases on a Canadian VPS you control.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Jan: ChatGPT Feel, Local Models, Your Hardware
Jan is an open-source ChatGPT alternative — download Llama and Qwen from HuggingFace, chat offline, and expose an OpenAI-compatible API on port 1337 from your own machine.
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Self-Hosted Gogs: Git Hosting When You Want the Smallest Forge Possible
Gogs has hosted private Git since 2014 — pull requests, issues, and webhooks on 512 MB RAM. The original lightweight forge, before you needed CI built in.
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