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Self host a private Campfire chat for your team or organization

Campfire is a web-based chat application you can host for your own team or organization. If you run a small business, chat is where day-to-day work actually happens: quick questions, sharing files, and keeping decisions from getting lost in email. Campfire gives you a private, company-owned place for those conversations.

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Plane for Self-Hosted Teams: Managing Infrastructure + Website Projects

Plane, an open-source workspace for project management that works really well for teams managing self-hosted systems and custom web builds. Today we’ll walk through a real example using a fictional client, Acme Co. They’ve hired our small web studio to build a new marketing site and set up

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Self host a Beszel Hub to monitor servers and containers

In this screencast we’re looking at self hosted Beszel, a lightweight server monitoring platform that’s ideal for small businesses that run cloud servers or on‑prem machines and want visibility without a heavy monitoring stack. For example, imagine a small web agency hosting client sites in Docker. You

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Standard Notes self hosted: private, encrypted notes for business

Standard Notes, a secure note‑taking app built for people who want privacy without giving up convenience. If you run a small business, you’re constantly handling sensitive information: client meeting notes, vendor pricing, internal procedures, passwords you’re not ready to put in a shared system, or draft proposals

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Self host Flowise to chat with your site content

Flowise is an open source platform for building agentic systems by connecting modular building blocks into a workflow. Imagine you run a niche software directory and support site. Customers keep asking the same questions: “Do you have a Docker Compose example for this app?” or “Which apps support SSO?” Instead

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Self host and own your customer data with Twenty CRM

Twenty is a modern, self-hosted platform designed to help you manage your customer relationships and own your CRM. Let’s see how a small business like Formable, which provides managed hosting services, can use Twenty to keep track of leads, clients, and internal workflows—all in one place. Whether you’

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Self host digital document signing and processing for contracts with DocuSeal

DocuSeal, the open source document signing solution that's changing the way small businesses handle their paperwork. Whether you're a small business owner, a freelancer, or creator, DocuSeal offers a secure and cost-effective way to manage your document signing needs. Let's consider a small vacation

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Never Lose a Tax Receipt Again! AI-Powered Receipt Wrangler

Welcome to Receipt Wrangler, your go-to self-hosted solution for managing receipts and taking charge of your business expenses. Imagine you're a small business owner, like Jane, who runs a local bakery. Jane is constantly on the move, juggling everything from ingredient purchases, equipment repairs, and filing taxes. With

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Why Self-Hosted Jitsi Meet is Better for Business – Control Your Data, Save Money

Jitsi Meet is an open source video conferencing solution that offers secure and user-friendly virtual meetings. It's perfect for businesses looking to maintain privacy and control by self-hosting their own communication platform. Jitsi Meet is a powerful tool for small businesses like yours, offering a secure, customizable, and

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Self host MinIO for private cloud S3-compatible storage and backups

MinIO, an open-source object storage solution that's perfect for small businesses looking to self host their data efficiently. MinIO provides an Amazon Web Services S3-compatible API, making it a versatile choice for businesses that need a reliable storage platform that can be deployed on public or private clouds.

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Livestream with Self Hosted Restreamer and Moblin

Livestream connection issues? Self hosted Restreamer to the rescue, a powerful open-source application designed to help small businesses harness the power of live video streaming without incurring additional costs for hosting or software licenses. Whether you're a creator with a livestream or a local business wanting to engage

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Immich: Self Hosted Media Backup Solution

Immich, the self-hosted photo and video management solution designed to help small businesses and creators backup, organize, and manage their media files. Immich can be a valuable asset for a local realty team looking to backup property photos and videos stored on their mobile devices. Immich is a powerful tool

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Launch your content into orbit with self hosted Strapi

Strapi, the open-source Headless CMS designed to accelerate your website development process. Whether you're a small business looking to enhance your online presence or a developer eager to build robust applications, Strapi offers a flexible solution to help you achieve your goals. Imagine you're a small

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Create AI assistants with self hosted Quivr

Quivr, a powerful self hosted tool designed to transform how small businesses manage and utilize their knowledge. Imagine having a personal AI assistant that learns and evolves with your business, continuously improving its ability to provide relevant information and insights. That's exactly what Quivr offers. For small businesses,

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Self Host Custom Chat Assistants with Open WebUI

Welcome to Open WebUI, an innovative, self-hosted AI chat interface designed to improve how small businesses create and use AI assistants in their daily tasks. Imagine running a boutique consultancy firm that needs to handle multiple client interactions, project documents, and research tasks—all while ensuring data privacy and accessibility.

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Kimai for Self Hosted Time Tracking

Kimai is a powerful and flexible time tracking solution that can help your business manage time and resources more effectively. Whether you're a small business owner or managing a large team, Kimai has the tools you need to keep track of your customers, projects, activities and time. One

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Self host ChangeDetection and monitor websites for changes

ChangeDetection is an invaluable tool for small businesses that need to stay informed about changes to web pages that are crucial for their operations. ChangeDetection allows you to keep a close eye on anything from price changes and restock notifications to more complex changes like text in PDFs or updates

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Self-hosted Calendly alternative: Easy! Appointments

Easy!Appointments is a versatile tool perfect for businesses looking to manage their online bookings with ease. With Easy!Appointments, you can set up booking slots where clients can reserve time with you based on your availability. It will work great for single individuals or bigger teams. We use Easy!

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Firefly III: Self Hosted Budget Management

Firefly III, the open source finance manager that's perfect for small businesses looking to take control of their finances. If you're running a small business, keeping a clear record of your financial transactions is crucial, and that's where Firefly III comes in with its

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TeamViewer or Anydesk alternative, self-hosted RustDesk

Looking for a self-hosted TeamViewer or Anydesk alternative? Meet RustDesk, the open source remote desktop solution that's perfect for small businesses looking to maintain remote control over their digital workspace. With RustDesk, you can easily connect to your office computer from anywhere in the world. Let's

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n8n: self-hosted Zapier alternative

n8n, a powerful workflow automation tool that lets small businesses connect various applications and automate complex tasks with minimal coding. Today, we'll demonstrate how n8n can enhance your business operations with a few example workflows. n8n is a versatile tool that can handle a variety of tasks, from

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Stay Alert and Mobile with self hosted NTFY

Enhance your small business's alert system using NTFY, a powerful tool that lets you send notifications directly to your phone or desktop. We'll demonstrate how NTFY can be integrated with Uptime Kuma to monitor your services and with N8N to automate notifications. NTFY is a versatile

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Paperless-ngx for business document management

Paperless-ngx, the digital document management system that's perfect for small businesses looking to declutter their workspace and manage their documents efficiently. Let's dive in by showing you how to upload a document and explore its features. For those who use other applications like Syncthing, Formable can

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Work Smarter with Self-Hosted Nextcloud

Nextcloud is the leading open-source collaboration platform designed to help small businesses take control of their data and communication. Nextcloud isn't just a file-sharing service; it's a comprehensive suite that integrates Files, Talk, Groupware, and Office into a single, seamless experience. Imagine you're running

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Self-hosted Flame: A Start Page for Your Team

Flame, an open-source, self-hosted start page for your server that streamlines your daily workflow and keeps your favorite applications and bookmarks at your fingertips. Imagine you're a small business owner, and every day you juggle between various web applications – from your email client to your knowledge base running