selfh.st
selfh.st · Group blog · on HN since 2023
Publisher of a newsletter and directory covering self-hosted software, with weekly news, app roundups and user surveys.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend it as a maintained directory for finding open and closed source software to run yourself.
37HN people shared it
16linked it in comments
25stories submitted
417story points
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Most-shared posts
- 1Browse Self-Hosted Software10 people · 157 points · first shared 2024 · 61 comments on HN
- 2This Week in Self-Hosted: The latest in self-hosted news8 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 3My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 20242 people · 121 points · first shared 2025 · 33 comments on HN
- 4A Directory of Self-Hosted Software2 people · 56 points · first shared 2024 · 4 comments on HN
- 5You are all a bunch of sick freaks2 people · 56 points · first shared 2025 · 16 comments on HN
- 6My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 20252 people · 10 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 72025 Self-Host User Survey Results2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 8Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Notion2 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 9A Collection of Self-Hosted Dashboard Icons1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 10This Week in Self-Hosted (25 August 2023)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Merriam-Webster Officially Recognizes 'Dockers' as a Synonym for 'Containers'1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 12Our Favorite Tools for Monitoring Container Updates1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13This Week in Self-Hosted (18 August 2023)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14This Week in Self-Hosted (2023-07-28)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 152023 Self-Host User Survey1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
austin-cheney · 2026-04-29
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.
putna · 2026-03-03
prefer https://selfh.st/
also https://1vps.com/self-hosted-apps/ with different UI if you like
smitty1e · 2025-12-29
"Not me," said entropy, "I was already there at the outset."
Less cutely, this is an interesting topical site/newsletter => https://selfh.st
mschild · 2025-09-08
Highly recommend [0]selfh.st if you are looking for software to run locally. Its a maintained directory for open and closed source software.
[0] https://selfh.st/apps/
nsb1 · 2025-07-25
For those interested in self-hosting, here's a site that maintains a collection of self-hostable services.
https://selfh.st
boredpudding · 2025-01-09
I have used the ASRock N100DC-ITX with some ram, ssd and an old disk.
I run: Jellyfin, Home Assistant, VPN, Nextcloud, Qbittorrent. More things are on https://selfh.st
Everything is in Docker + Portainer. Makes it super easy to manage. The setup uses 17 watts.
justusthane · 2024-12-26
Check out https://selfh.st for finding things! Go to the Apps page. Their weekly newsletter is also good.
devd00d · 2024-04-15
Two sites are alreading doing this really well:
https://osssoftware.org/ https://selfh.st/
breput · 2025-06-30
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/
skoskie · 2025-02-21
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/
windexh8er · 2024-12-26
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-n… [4] https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi-yubikey/ [5] https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Dashboard [6] https://runtipi.io/
Brainspackle · 2024-04-15
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)
renegat0x0 · 2024-04-13
cuu508 · 2024-04-04
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.
ChrisArchitect · 2024-04-04
Official post about this: https://selfh.st/blog/introducing-selfhst-apps/
peter_d_sherman · 2024-04-05
Related:
https://selfh.st/apps/