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Local-first software (2019)

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863 points gasull | 2 comments | 05 Jul 25 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ibizaman ◴[05 Jul 25 16:15 UTC] No.44473720[source]▶
That’s essentially what I’m trying to make widely available through my projects https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks and https://github.com/ibizaman/skarabox. Their shared goal is to make self-hosting more approachable to the masses.

It’s based on NixOS to provide as much as possible out of the box and declaratively: https, SSO, LDAP, backups, ZFS w/ snapshots, etc.

It’s a competitor to cloud hosting because it packages Vaultwarden and Nextcloud to store most of your data. It does provide more services than that though, home assistant for example.

It’s a competitor to YUNoHost but IMO better (or aims to be) because you can use the building blocks provided by SelfHostBlocks to self-host any packages you want. It’s more of a library than a framework.

It’s a competitor to NAS but better because everything is open source.

It still requires the user to be technical but I’m working on removing that caveat. One of my goals is to allow to install it on your hardware without needing nix or touching the command line.

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1. virgoerns ◴[05 Jul 25 18:47 UTC] No.44474676[source]▶
I love that you include hledger! It's amazing piece of software, even if a little obscure for people unfamiliar with plaintext accounting!
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2. ibizaman ◴[05 Jul 25 21:48 UTC] No.44475833[source]▶
I love that application. I plan to make some improvements to the web UI. I’d love to have multiple tabs with saved reports. That would allow my spouse to use it quite easily. I’ll be adding that at some point.