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Customer Support Inbox
Handle customer communication, tickets, and shared team responses.
Family Media Library
Manage movies, music, audiobooks, and photo memories at home.
Forms & Data Collection
Collect feedback, submissions, and survey responses without SaaS.
Homelab Monitoring
Watch uptime, containers, and resources across your home servers.
Identity & Access Stack
Run SSO, user directories, and access control inside your own environment.
Internal Docs & Wiki
Keep team documentation and SOPs inside your own infrastructure.
Lightweight CRM
Track contacts and deals without heavy suites.
Low-Resource VPS
Find projects that run well on a small VPS with modest RAM and CPU.
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Promoted Projects
Pelican Panel is a free, open source game server management panel, born as a community fork of Pterodactyl. The web panel (Laravel + Filament, AGPL-3.0) deploys and manages game servers through the Wings daemon (Go, MIT), which runs each server isolated in its own Docker container. Features: one-click server installs from configurable eggs, real-time console and resource monitoring, scheduled tasks, fine-grained user permissions, 2FA, and an API. Deployment: panel via Docker Compose or bare metal (PHP 8.4, SQLite by default, MySQL/MariaDB supported); Wings requires Docker on the host. Docs: https://pelican.dev/docs. Supports Minecraft, Terraria, Palworld, Valheim, Factorio, and dozens of other games.
Fredy: Automate your real estate search in Germany. Get instant notifications for new listings from ImmoScout24, Immowelt, and more.
HTMLy is an open source databaseless PHP blogging platform. A flat-file CMS that allows you to create a fast, secure, and powerful website or blog in seconds.
The home of the phpList community, documentation and forums. phpList is Open Source newsletter and email marketing software: it is free to download
Espial is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server. - jonschoning/espial
Free and open-source employee onboarding platform. Onboard new hires through Slack or the web portal.
Let your users access their data. Gain valuable insights at the same time. Open, lightweight, self hosted and free.
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Deployment: https://github.com/romenkova/doska#self-hosting, or https://doska.sh/docs/self-hosting. One line installer, or through docker-compose. Docs: https://doska.sh/docs General info: https://doska.sh or https://github.com/romenkova. Licence: MIT https://github.com/romenkova/doska?tab=MIT-1-ov-file Supported platforms: server - anything that can run Docker, client - web browser, macOS app (other platforms coming soon)
Opinionated email server
A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server
Open Source standalone trashmail solution that ships its own mail server
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
A web client for WeeChat
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The agent that grows with you.
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-…
The open source coding agent.
AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.
Ollama is the easiest way to automate your work using open models, while keeping your data safe.
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