Tools & Self-hosting

Reviews and guides on productivity tools, self-hosting, automation, and development infrastructure. Practical setups that have proven useful in production.

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Curator's note

I self-host most of my infrastructure and constantly evaluate tools for my companies. These are the tools, setups, and automation patterns that have actually proven useful in production.

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Free local meeting transcription with Meetily

Free, open-source meeting transcription that runs 100% on your computer. No cloud, no subscriptions.

How I use Manus Browser Operator in daily marketing work

If you want to try similar workflows in your own tools - overview of how Browser Operator works and how I use it for marketing.

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smolvm: portable, lightweight microVMs with sub-200ms cold starts self-hosting

Replacing an entire modern stack with Postgres databases

Cloudflare Registrar API now in beta - register domains anywhere devops

Fiverr Left Customer Files Public and Searchable on Cloudinary devops

DockDoor - Free Alt+Tab and Dock Preview Window Switcher for Mac productivity

CCGram: Telegram Bridge for AI Coding Agents via tmux automation

Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't self-hosting

Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026? frontend

EmDash: WordPress successor that solves plugin security backend

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer self-hosting

Back to FreeBSD: Part 2 - Jails devops

Pocket ID - simple passkey-only OIDC provider for self-hosted services self-hosting

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: $1,432 to $233/mo self-hosting

Crawlee for Python: Unified Web Scraping and Browser Automation automation

Plain: Django Fork Rebuilt for AI Coding Agents backend

Cotypist: AI Autocomplete for Mac productivity

Folder Peek: Pin Folders to the macOS Menu Bar productivity

Hyperkey: turn caps lock into a free shortcut namespace on macOS productivity

TypeWhisper 1.1 for macOS - Private Speech-to-Text productivity

Everything Claude Code: Preloaded Agent Skills and Commands productivity

Zumly - Zoom-based navigation for the web frontend

OpenScreen: Free Open-Source Alternative to Screen Studio productivity

A simple and fast macOS launcher productivity

Sol: Free Open-Source macOS Launcher productivity

ngrok: AI & API Gateway - Secure Tunnels & Traffic self-hosting

Tuna - Native macOS Launcher with Modal Input Modes productivity

Pocket ID - Lightweight Passkey-Only OIDC Provider self-hosting

Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords by Law productivity

Tinyauth - lightweight OIDC authentication server for self-hosted apps self-hosting

Dobase - Your workspace, your server self-hosting

Perplexica, a Self-Hosted Open-Source Alternative to Perplexity AI self-hosting

jsongrep is faster than {jq, jmespath, jsonpath-rust, jql} productivity

Perplexica: self-hosted open-source alternative to Perplexity self-hosting

Dynacat, a Glance Fork With Dynamic Widget Auto-Refresh self-hosting

Komodo: Self-Hosted Build, Deploy, and Server Management Platform self-hosting

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) devops

Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity) productivity

Keeper.sh: open-source calendar sync and calendar MCP server self-hosting

yoloAI: Disposable Sandboxes End AI Agent Permission Fatigue automation

Meetily: Privacy-First AI Meeting Assistant, Otter Alternative productivity

ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift} productivity

lnav: Terminal Log Viewer with Built-In SQLite Queries productivity

Why I love NixOS self-hosting

Atomic: Self-Hosted Knowledge Base with Semantic Linking and MCP self-hosting

Google Workspace CLI: 40+ Recipe Skills for Cross-Service Automation automation

Dockhand - Modern Docker Management self-hosting

Keep | Save and search your bookmarks from anywhere productivity

OpenCLI + Claude Code may be a power move automation

Professional video editing, right in your browser productivity

Sonar: Docker-Aware Port Inspector That Replaces lsof Workflows self-hosting

Cmux: Run Multiple AI Coding Agents in Parallel on macOS productivity

Technitium DNS Server self-hosting

Cmux: terminal multiplexer built for AI coding agents productivity

Cockpit: web-based graphical interface for Linux server administration self-hosting

cook, a Single-Binary Terminal Agent With Reusable Prompt Templates automation

Karakeep: Self-Hosted Bookmark Manager With AI Tagging self-hosting

Claude Code with Docker: Local Models, MCP, Sandboxes | Docker automation

Ductor: Control Claude Code and Codex From Telegram automation

Lightpanda: 11x Faster Headless Browser for Scraping and AI Agents automation

NYT Loads 49 MB and 422 Requests for One News Article frontend

Why I Love FreeBSD self-hosting

Pencil.dev: AI-Native Visual Design with Drag-and-Drop Editing productivity

Top 5 Claude Code Plugins productivity

Agent Safehouse: Kernel-Level Sandbox for AI Coding Agents on macOS self-hosting

Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering backend

DenchClaw - AI CRM, hosted locally on your Mac productivity

Copyparty: Single-File Python Server for Every Transfer Protocol self-hosting

Denchclaw Turns Claude Code Into a File-Based CRM for Sales automation