Hacker News with Generative AI: Self-Hosting

Forgejo v10.0 – self-hosted lightweight software forge (forgejo.org)
Forgejo v10.0 was released 16 January 2025.
403ing AI Crawlers (coryd.dev)
Now that I'm self-hosting this site and the associated infrastructure, the public facing part of the site (where you're reading this) is served via a boring old Linux/Apache/PHP stack. Which means I had to write an .htaccess file.
Personal Mail Server on OpenBSD (2019) (nicolascarpi.github.io)
It’s time to host your email yourself!
Featbit: Enterprise-level feature flag platform that you can self-host (github.com/featbit)
Fast WYSIWYG tool for building and self-hosting professional documentation sites (tiledocs.com)
Create professional documentation websites with our no-code online editor
Building a Self-Hostable Product (fusionauth.io)
In this article, you’ll learn about the architecture, business model, and software design choices necessary to create a self-hostable developer tool.
Zero to Prod in C – Creating Server and Hosting (brightprogrammer.in)
I recently started looking into self-hosting, and after spending two almost sleepless nights, I finally have a solution to self host any service and link it to an endpoint with your domain name.
Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app (github.com/hoarder-app)
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
When Self–Hosting Fails: The Night My Blog Vanished (bytedrum.com)
It was 1:09 AM on a quiet Friday night when my digital world went dark. In an instant, my carefully crafted blog and homelab setup vanished from the internet, leaving me feeling like I’d built a high–tech sandcastle only to watch the tide wash it away. The culprit? Not a sophisticated cyber attack or a critical bug in my code1, but something far more mundane and frustratingly out of my control: an unannounced ISP outage.
Show HN: Self Hosted AI Server Gateway for Ollama, ComfyUI and FFmpeg Servers (servicestack.net)
ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser (zetaoffice.net)
Work from any device, maintain control over your data with self-hosting or our CDN, and enjoy seamless integration with your existing systems.
Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production (github.com/opennextjs)
OpenNext takes the Next.js build output and converts it into packages that can be deployed across a variety of environments. Natively OpenNext has support for AWS Lambda, and classic Node.js Server.
Abbey: Self-hosted AI interface server for documents, notebooks, and chats (github.com/US-Artificial-Intelligence)
Abbey is an AI interface with notebooks, basic chat, documents, YouTube videos, and more. It orchestrates a variety of AI models in a private self-hosted package. You can run Abbey as a server for multiple users using your own authentication provider, or you can run it for yourself on your own machine.
How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) (bsky.sh)
Did you know? You can self-host and/or mirror almost all of Bluesky's infrastructure today!
Postbaby: Open-source, self-hostable, localStorage-based sticky-note app (postbaby.org)
Commercial Opportunities in a Renaissance of Self-Hosting (johnys.io)
The accessibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness of self-hosting today are fascinating. You can buy commodity hardware at one-tenth the annual cost of renting it on Amazon Web Services, connect it smoothly to the public internet behind a residential IP with Cloudflare Tunnels or Tailscale, and seamlessly deploy with a host of solutions from a mature Docker ecosystem to DHH’s Kamal. For a total cost of several hundred dollars, I now have about $15,000 of annual AWS compute running in my basement.
Show HN: Firecrawl-Simple – Stable fork of Firecrawl optimized for self-hosting (github.com/devflowinc)
Self-Hosting Marketing Automation Software: A Guide (laudspeaker.com)
Marketing and customer engagement software continues to grow in usage, and sophistication and maybe the most crowded software category in terms of number of vendors. With such a wide variety of SaaS marketing automation  options, self hosting can seem like an odd choice. But there are still  many companies for whom self-hosting makes sense. In this article we get into some of the considerations that may lead you to self-hosting over paying for a SaaS vendor
Show HN: Rust Based Desktop Client for Self Hostable Personal Cloud over S3 (github.com/doshareme)
This repository contains source code for desktop clients for DoShare Personal Cloud, support MacOS, Linux, and Windows operating systems is included as scope any features and ideas or bugs will be considered. Any other issue outside these specific OS is outside the scope of the repository.
ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives (sweeting.me)
In the wake of the [recent attack](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message) against Archive.org, [ArchiveBox](https://archivebox.io) has been getting some increased attention from people wondering how to **self-host their own internet archives**.
I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server (geek.sg)
Inspired by numerous people migrating their Next.js applications from Vercel to self-hosted VPS on Hetzner due to pricing concerns, I decided to explore self-hosting some of my non-critical applications. Additionally, I wanted to push my technical boundaries by running Llama 3.2 using Ollama and making its API available to power AI applications for my business, Wisp.
Show HN: I built indiehost to automate self-hosting on a VPS with Coolify (indiehost.io)
Indiehost automates your VPS setup so you can get back to building your apps. Save time, save money, and own your data.
Gokapi: Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative with AWS S3 support (github.com/Forceu)
Gokapi is a lightweight server to share files, which expire after a set amount of downloads or days. It is similar to the discontinued Firefox Send, with the difference that only the admin is allowed to upload files.
BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software (bookstackapp.com)
BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server (github.com/cozis)
This is a minimal web server designed to host my blog. It's built from scratch to be robust enough to face the public internet. No reverse proxies required! You can see it in action at http://playin.coz.is/index.html.
Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting (knhash.in)
There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system to load up software and install. This was the 2000's, when computers prided themselves on being personal computation devices. A Chromebook was a curiosity at the time, promising to run most of your software in "someone else's computer"; all you needed was the internet and the interface. The Chromebook was a reckoning.
Ziglang.org migrates from AWS to self-hosting (ziglang.org)
You often hear this story in tech news: some project got increasingly popular, so they had to migrate from their simple, one-computer setup to some kind of autoscaling cloud hosting solution to meet demands.
Self-Hosting at Home and Privacy (dataswamp.org)
You may self-host services at home, but you need to think about the potential drawbacks for your privacy.
Nntpit: Minimalist Reddit2nntp Gateway (github.com/taviso)
This is a simple reddit2nntp gateway server that lets you use a newsreader to follow discussions on reddit. The intention is for you to run it locally, tell your newsreader to connect to localhost, and subreddits will appear as newsgroups!
Coding on iPad using self-hosted VSCode, Caddy, and code-server (tailscale.com)