A list of software that i have selfhosted and my opinion on them.
Portainer
Website: https://www.portainer.io/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/portainer/portainer
“Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.”
- easy to setup
- ui not very intuitive, have to look for things at beginning
- give a good overview over containers
- makes it easy to manage containers
Open Project
Website: https://www.openproject.org/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/opf/openproject
“OpenProject is the leading open source project management software.”
I have only used the all in one container!
- setup is ok
- sometimes mediocre performance
- huge amount of features
- good documentation
- might be overwhelming at first, you should write guides for your users or give them instructions
- almost all in one solution
Check Mattermost Focalboard as an alternative.
Mattermost Focalboard
Website: https://www.focalboard.com/download/mattermost/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard
“Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.”
- easy to setup
- not nearly as many features, compared to openproject
- only a simple board for task management
- easy to use, no instructions needed
- no user management when run as service without mattermost suite?
- inviting new users works using email
- adding users to boards is not very clear
ChangeDetection
GitHub repo: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
“The best and simplest self-hosted free open source website change detection, monitor and notification service. Restock Monitor, change detection. Designed for simplicity - the main goal is to simply monitor which websites had a text change for free. Free Open source web page change detection, Restock Monitoring, Visualping and Apify alternative”
- easy setup
- using features takes time to figure out
- easy to setup notifications
- medium to setup filters and find all possibilities
- couldnt get the browser to work for automating actions on websites
Whitebophir
Website: https://wbo.ophir.dev/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir
“Online collaborative Whiteboard that is simple, free, easy to use and to deploy”
- easy to setup
- great for quick notes
- great for sharing ideas and sketches
- good performance
- easy to share boards and get user to access it
FreshRss
Website: https://freshrss.org/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
“FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.”
- easy to setup
- great built in tool for finding and reading rss feeds
PrivateBin
Website: https://privatebin.info/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin
" A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES. “
- easy to setup
- great and easy configuration, lots of options
- good documentation
- easy to use, even non tech people
- fast