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Selfhosted Control with awesome-selfhosted

Name: Selfhosted Control with awesome-selfhosted
Author: awesome-selfhosted

Host your own network services and web apps. For founders seeking privacy and control.

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free (self-hosted)

326,064 stars+3,934★ this week15,264 forksGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Jun 30Updated 10/12/2026100% free · open source

What it is

Use this skill to find and host popular free network services on your own servers.

Real use case example

"A solo developer, Sarah, wants to set up a self-hosted email service and calendar for her clients. She uses this skill to find and deploy free, open-source alternatives, which she can host on her own servers. After 30 minutes of setup, she's up and running, with complete control over her data and hosting costs."

Best insideSelf-hostedAny AI Client

When to use it

•When looking for open-source alternatives to popular SaaS products
•When trying to reduce dependence on third-party services and increase data control
•When exploring cost-effective solutions for setting up internal tools and services

Ready-to-paste prompt

Search for 'project management' in the awesome-selfhosted README to find self-hosted alternatives to popular project management tools

Heads up: Be aware that some self-hosted applications may require specific system requirements, dependencies, or technical expertise to set up and maintain, so it's essential to review the application's documentation before attempting to self-host

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

⚡ Runs out of the box

A prompt/skill package — nothing to install beyond adding it to your AI tool.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/awesome-selfhosted && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/awesome-selfhosted/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/awesome-selfhosted/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Selfhosted Control with awesome-selfhosted works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Selfhosted Control with awesome-selfhosted is a documents-only repository (3 doc files) — something you read, not something you run. There is nothing to install. Last commit this month, Other license.

Size

Documents only

3 documents · ~1 h to skim

Setup

Nothing to install

A guide / curated list. Just read it and follow the links.

Runs on

Nowhere — you read it

A reading resource, not a program.

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it

What's in each folder

.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)2 files

_static/Folder1 files

READMEOther licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

⚡ Runs out of the box

A prompt/skill package — nothing to install beyond adding it to your AI tool.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/awesome-selfhosted && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/awesome-selfhosted/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/awesome-selfhosted/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

Quick Actions

Details

Creator

awesome-selfhosted

Do this with a working workflow

Pages we wrote and tested that put a skill like this to work — importable n8n templates, outcome guides and Claude Desktop configs.

Outcome guide

Turn meeting notes into a summary email automatically

Paste the transcript into a private form and the workflow writes and emails a concise recap — decisions, owners, open questions — that people will actually read.

MCP config