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656points
112comments
#15of 2,195 in 2019
Top 1%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

22 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 18 critical, out of 63 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.

Design: 3 for, 4 againstIdea: 5 for, 1 againstPricing: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful, well-organised list of self-hosted apps

    From 3 comments
    • Really cool list, some stuff I hadn't seen, thanks for posting.
      jamil7 on HN
    • Perfect, this is really nice! Love the highres screenshots!
      rjakobsson on HN
    • I was going to say this really needs to be sorted by category. Then I noticed under filter was categories. So, actually, its perfect.
      omarhaneef on HN

Objections

  • Search returns unrelated results

    From 2 comments
    • Congrats on launching. Search could use some work: - Search for Bot, get a bunch of unrelated results. - Search for Email, get accounting/translation/etc tools. - Search for…
      k-godwin on HN
    • This is a great and interesting idea. The search could use a bit of tuning. I only found a lot of unrelated stuff by searching for "feed" and "rss" .
      Seb-C on HN
  • Site times out under load

    From 1 comment
    • Website constantly times out for me, stuff doesn't load etc. Not sure if that's because of traffic due to this post or not.
      recrudesce on HN
  • Screenshots add little value

    From 1 comment
    • Nice list - not sure the screenshots add a great deal though.
      edf13 on HN

Requests

  • Add more projects such as Bitrix24 and others

    From 3 comments
    • Bitrix24 isn't on the list, even though self hosted editions are available since 2008 - https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/ Am I blind or there is no 'Submit' section on the…
      JackPoach on HN
    • Awesome list - thanks for preparing this. Shameless plug: Would you be open to listing our project Rudder, an open-source Segment alternative.…
      soumyadeb on HN
    • This looks awesome! Would you be willing to add my project (10K+ GitHub stars)? https://github.com/amark/gun It is a self-hosted Open Source alternative to Firebase, with graph…
      marknadal on HN

Questions

  • How do projects get submitted?

    From 2 comments
    • My company (cloudron.io) provides an App Store for self-hosted apps. We have an app store listing page which has the description and screenshots of each app.…
      gramakri on HN
    • Bitrix24 isn't on the list, even though self hosted editions are available since 2008 - https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/ Am I blind or there is no 'Submit' section on the…
      JackPoach on HN

Alternatives named

  • Awesome Self-Hosted on GitHub

    From 1 comment
    • the screenshots are a nice touch, but I still prefer https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
      leemailll on HN
  • Cloudron app store

    From 1 comment
    • My company (cloudron.io) provides an App Store for self-hosted apps. We have an app store listing page which has the description and screenshots of each app.…
      gramakri on HN

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