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24 alternatives to CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs
Contribute to gmrandazzo/CheapSecurity development by creating an account on GitHub.
CheapSecurity is a lightweight CCTV system designed to run on Linux single-board computers. It offers self-hosted video surveillance, allowing users to manage camera feeds locally rather than relying on cloud services.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites.
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Hello, I'm building SadServers.com, a SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers in a "Capture the Flag" fashion. I hope this is useful, to learn more about the project please see https://github.com/fduran/sadservers
2022 · sadservers.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! A few years ago someone kept trying to steal my motorcycle, so I decided to make a small camera with really long battery life to catch them. The hardware/software is totally open source, but the companion app only supports macOS currently. (I'm a big fan of native apps, and didn't want to block releasing on Linux/Windows support.) I wrote some blog posts about the process: PCB design: https://toaster.llc/blog/pcb Enclosure design: https://toaster.llc/blog/enclosure Image pipeline:…
2024 · toaster.llc · its alternatives →
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I needed a security camera inside my house, one that would send motion notifications to my smartphone and would allow me to livestream remotely. However, I could not find one that I could trust due to privacy concerns. Many of them upload the plaintext of videos to their servers and none is fully open-source as far as I know. Therefore, I decided to use my spare time to build one from scratch. Called Privastead (as in Private Homestead), it uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption (between the camera local hub and the smartphone) and is mostly implemented in Rust (except for part of the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Per-executable network bandwidth monitoring for Linux
2022 · elesiuta.github.io · its alternatives →
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Telebugs▲391Hey hackers! In January 2025, I started building Telebugs. It's an installable error tracker that works with Sentry SDKs. I come from a Rails background and previously worked at an error tracking/APM company, so I figured: why not build my own? I wanted a simple, reliable tool I could own outright, without surprise bills for overages. Telebugs is built with Rails 8, Hotwire, TailwindCSS, and SQLite. Like 37signals’ ONCE products (my inspiration), it’s pay-once: prep your hardware, run one command, and you’ll be up and running in 10 minutes (5 minutes refers to the actual installation…
2025 · telebugs.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I previously introduced an open source private home security camera in 2024, which uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284412. It was called Privastead then and it's now renamed to Secluso. John Kaczman found my project from here and has been working on it with me over the last year and half. We've made a lot of improvements to the software, which we would like to share with you: - You can now set this up on your Raspberry Pi in less than 5 minutes with no technical expertise using our easy-to-use GUI deploy tool. We've…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS. Contribute to leodeim/vpsmon development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · longren.io · its alternatives →
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Monitor cyber threats on your online services
2022 · app.crowdsec.net · its alternatives →
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A beautiful web dashboard for Linux. Contribute to tariqbuilds/linux-dash development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A little web server written in C for Linux. Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy. Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on Bor, an open-source system for centralized Linux desktop management. Bor consists of a lightweight Go agent and a central server. Policies are streamed to clients over mTLS/gRPC in real time—no polling—and currently support Firefox, Chrome, KDE, dconf, polkit and package management, with more coming. Version 0.8 introduces several new policy types - Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business and FirewallD zones, along with a number of improvements and fixes. I'd love feedback on the architecture, policy model, and whether this is something you'd consider for…
Aug 2026 · getbor.dev · its alternatives →
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Havoc Shield▲113All-in-One Cybersecurity Platform: 12 Tools in 1 Dashboard
2021 · info.havocshield.com · its alternatives →
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SSH-based "VPN for poors". Contribute to ivanilves/xiringuito development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project contains no code from Linux, BSD, Minix, or any other OS. Everything up until this point is written entirely from scratch, including a pure microkernel (that only implements multiprocessor priority scheduling, memory management, and interprocess communication), a work-in-progress implementation of the standard C library, and a variety of servers that provide drivers and other essential OS functionality. At the time of writing this post, the servers provide drivers for the keyboard, NVMe SSDs (that works on real hardware), a Unix-like virtual file system (with a single root…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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User space WireGuard port-forward in Rust. Contribute to aramperes/onetun development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a tool to manage encrypted local backups of secrets. The core idea is that it aims to be usable without depending on it, meaning that even if the software disappeared from the face of Earth tomorrow, your data would still be recoverable. It also integrates nicely with NixOS (which is what I use, though it does not require NixOS to be used). I have summed up a bit of explanation and some answers to reasonable questions in a blog post: https://baldino.dev/blog/secs-man/
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Encrypted, secure, private web connection for safe browsing
2020 · vpnunlimited.com · its alternatives →
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Several months ago, I posted in Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284412) about this project (previously named Privastead, now changed to Secluso). It's a privacy-preserving home security camera that uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption between the camera and the mobile app. The post received a good amount of attention and there were many good comments. Since then, my project cofounder and I have made major improvements to the project. The project previously would act as a hub for an IP camera, which was otherwise closed source. But now, our camera software can…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Dastardly▲57A lightweight web app security scanner for your CI pipelines
2022 · portswigger.net · its alternatives →
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Obserware▲71Interactive system monitoring for GNU/Linux distributions
2021 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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Having been regularly annoyed by Proton and even Gmail search on emails, especially after working every day with coding agents in the past year or so, I wanted to catch up the experience of searching emails to the rest of the world. Not a big innovation, but a real itch scratcher as far as I'm concerned.
Jun 2026 · margaine.com · its alternatives →
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