Tools

Open-source tools that can replace a paid SaaS product. Each entry shows its compose file, a difficulty rating with the reason, and the license. The compose status on each entry says whether docker compose config passed on that exact file.

Showing all 5 published entries.

• immich

  Difficulty: Hard

  High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

  4 services (2 database or broker: valkey, postgres), 4 volume mounts, 6 env values to set, no elevated host access. Heuristic score 8 of 11: hard.

  License: AGPL-3.0. Compose file: not checked yet.

• open-webui

  Difficulty: Easy

  User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

  2 services, 2 volume mounts, no env values to set, no elevated host access. Heuristic score 2 of 11: easy.

  License: Unknown. Compose file: not checked yet.

• ntfy

  Difficulty: Easy

  A small server that turns an HTTP request into a push notification on your phone or desktop.

  Replaces: Paid push-notification services, such as Pushover.

  One container. It mounts /var/cache/ntfy and /etc/ntfy from the host, and the user: UID:GID line is a placeholder that you replace or remove.

  License: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only. Compose file: config check passed.

• Umami

  Difficulty: Medium

  Web analytics without cookies, stored in a Postgres database that you run.

  Replaces: Hosted web analytics, such as Google Analytics.

  Two services: the app and a Postgres database in a named volume that you back up. You must replace the placeholder secrets before the first start.

  License: MIT. Compose file: config check passed.

• Uptime Kuma

  Difficulty: Easy

  Checks your websites, ports and services on a schedule and sends an alert when one goes down.

  Replaces: Hosted uptime monitoring services, such as UptimeRobot.

  One container. Its data is a ./data folder next to the compose file, and it needs no outside services.

  License: MIT. Compose file: config check passed.