We search for, and discover the best new self-hosted web-based and open-source apps for startups, enterprise, agencies and freelancers.
Open-source
Utopia is a free open-source React development and design environment that allows developers to enjoy a visual real-time coding and design within one platform. Utopia is a browser-based project that can run on a server or any local computer. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Utopia is
Microscope
Microscope-PiCam is a free open-source web-based solution that acts as the soul of a Raspberry Pi based microscope. It is an ideal solution for taking still images using a 12 MP HQ camera attached to a gemmological microscope. The project has detailed instructions on how to setup your Raspberry Pi
Productivity
What is CardDAV? The CardDAV is an extension for the WebDAV which allows users to sync and backup their contact from CardDAV server to several clients and multiple devices. What is CardDavMate? CardDavMATE is an open source CardDAV (vCard) web client implementation released under GNU Affero General Public License (version
Productivity
CalDavZAP is an open source CalDAV web client implementation released under GNU Affero General Public License (version 3.0). Unfortunately, the project did not receive major updates since 2015, but it is still used by many users. Features * 100% JavaScript+jQuery CalDAV web client/application - no special server software
Self-hosted
What is Xandikos? Xandikos is a free open-source self-hosted CalDav and CardDav server that uses Git as a backend. It has been tested on a dozen of CalDav, and CardDav as well as vCard clients, which you will find in this post. Xandikos comes with a rich documentation for end-users,
CMS
Statamic is the flat-first, Laravel + Git powered CMS designed for building beautiful, easy to manage websites. It may look like WordPress in away, but it comes with dozens of unique custom features that allow developers to build large scale websites. Statamic comes with a rich dashboard that grants the site
Linux
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for Linux servers. It uses the system APIs and commands to create an informative user-friendly dashboard for users. Features 1. Easy to setup 2. Manages and view logs easily 3. Allows users to filter through logs 4. Pause and resume logs 5. Storage manager
programming
What is Dart? Dart is an open-source general purpose programming language that can be used to produce stable, fast, apps for desktop, mobile and web. While it is around for years, it was only popular when it is used as the core for Flutter, the ever-growing framework for building mobile
Frameworks
What is Fresh Web Framework? Fresh is a next generation web framework, that built for speed, reliability, and simplicity. It is built on top of TypeScript and uses it primarily for development. Fresh highlights Just-in-time rendering on the edge. * Island based client hydration for maximum interactivity. * Zero runtime overhead: no
programming
Clash is a free open-source terminal-based Tunnel system that supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS servers, written in the Go programming language. Features * Local HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS server with authentication support * VMess, Shadowsocks, Trojan, Snell protocol support for remote connections * Built-in DNS server that aims to minimize DNS pollution attack impact,
medicine
SMART is a free medical images and illustration collection by dedicated artists of the Servier medical group. It offers a 3000+ professional high quality medical illustration that anyone can use in their publication, research paper, or PowerPoint presentation. The collection is organized in several groups: 1. Anatomy and human body
Development
GitHub and GitLab are free web-based version control system and collaboration platforms for developers. While, they are free on certain aspects, many developers and companies like to have their own version control system self-hosted on their servers. What is Gitly? Here we present Gitly, which is an open-source alternative written
programming
Mint has all the tools you need to write error free, easily readable and maintainable applications in record time.
Wiki
Filesystem and git-based wiki engine written in Go using Mycomarkup as its primary markup language.
Web-based Apps
What is GROWI? GROWI is a new open-source Wiki engine for teams that supports real-time editing It is built on top of Node.js and MongoDB. It also uses Redis, and ElasicSearch for full-text search functionality. Features 1. It uses Markdown by default: (Create hierarchical pages with Markdown) 2. Comes
Education
What is RosarioSIS? RosarioSIS is a Free & open source Student Information System (SIS), also known as School Management System (SMS) or even School ERP. It is designed to address the most important needs of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students, and clerical personnel. However, it also adds many components
programming
What is OmniDB? OmniDB is an open source browser-based app designed to access and manage many Database Management systems, e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL. OmniDB can run either as an App or via Browser, combining the flexibility needed for various access paths with a design that puts security first.
Open-source
Free and Open-source Headless CMS and Application Framework built with TypeScript, Node.js, React and MongoDB
web development
What is Cockpit? Before we start we have to clarify that: there are two Cockpit projects, one is for managing servers and the other Cockpit project is for creating a headless API system, which is our topic today. The Cockpit CMS is an open-source self-hosted headless CMS "content management
programming
What is a physics simulation engine? A physics simulation engine is a custom software engine that grants developers add visual effetcs, simulate and tweak objects and enviroments accroding to the law of physics in 2D, 3D or both. With physics engine software, developers and artists apply real-world physical properties, such
CMS
A Headless API-based CMS is a content management system that offers an API endpoint to view, manage, and create content, users, and settings instead of the classical web interface. Many developers like API-based approach as it is easier to scale, build, manage, and allows developers to use any front-end technologies
Self-hosted
CMS, or Contest Management System, is a distributed system for running and (to some extent) organizing a programming contest. CMS has been designed to be general and to handle many types of contests, tasks, scoring, etc. Nonetheless, CMS has been explicitly built to be used in the 2012 International Olympiad
Open-source
A flat-file system is a solution that save records, and data in a plain files, instead of depending on an external database to store its content. Unlike database dependent systems, which requires you to setup, configure, prepare, and manage your database before installing your system, the flat-file solution has everything
Open-source
What is Ace? Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a browser based editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page or