nowfound

Alternatives

Products that do what CLI tool that makes your app self-hostable in one command does

I've been exploring the self-hosting world for some time now, and I wanted to simplify things with one command and avoid having to jump through hoops to make my application self-hostable. I thought many of these could be automated, so I'm automating everything related to self-hosting, one after the other. Please check the roadmap for what I have in mind. I'm open to anyone who wants to contribute and give feedback.

  1. 1AC
  2. 2

    Automate self-hosting of commercial open source products

    2023

  3. 3

    A low code platform to build internal tools

    2021

  4. 4

    GitHub’s official free and open source command line tool

    2020

  5. 5

    Parallel agents & headless CI/CD in your terminal

    Feb 2026

  6. 6SH
  7. 7HS
  8. 8
    Deposure185

    Launch your APIs live effortlessly

    2025

  9. 9CA
  10. 10TC
  11. 11BC

    I've been building a cli for my homelab/self-hosted setup. The original motivation was getting tired of stitching together deployments, monitoring, remote SSH access and random scripts. It’s a open source CLI, all-in-one tool for monitoring, secure remote accces (tunnel and terminal), log forwarding, automated deployments. No exposed ports, or endpoint, everything is configurable how the user wants it. One use case that multiple friends are interested in is replacing HomeAssistant’s Nabu Casa subscription with tunneling through BeaconInfra. The cloud/control-plane part…

    May 2026 · github.com

  12. 12PI
  13. 13

    Seven years in the making (I admit that I did get a kid at some point which slowed down progress and brought it to a halt quite a few times), I decided to finaly release it, with a rather drastic change to the now (I believe) generous licensing model. Unlike current major players in this field, I decided to go with uncrippled, free version for commercial use for corps with up to 1M USD ARR. I poured my heart and soul into this, not because I was looking for financial success, but because I felt it just had to be done, given the price hikes wherever you look today. While my wife and kid were…

    12d ago · fdeploy.com

  14. 14

    Create a new production-ready project by one CLI command

    2021

  15. 15DC
  16. 16OC
  17. 171C

    2021 · lightbottle.dev

  18. 18AC
  19. 19IB

    TLDR; I built a tool that turns any API into a CLI designed for ai agents --- Got tired of dealing with bloated context windows from MCP servers and skills that stuff entire API docs into the agent's context CLIs fix this, agents run a single command to self-discover everything an API has to offer So, built a tool to generate them for any api. All CLIs are written in Go, fast and lightweight, no dependencies Help text (via the --help flag) is the killer feature: all context for each command/endpoint/parameter is extracted directly from the user-facing API docs and enhanced with…

    Mar 2026 · instantcli.com

  20. 20SE

    2024 · github.com

  21. 21AO

    Hi HN! My name is Abhishek. I've spent my career working on Operating Systems and Infrastructure at places like Replit, Google, and Microsoft. Today, I'm excited to launch Arrakis: an open-source and self-hostable sandboxing service designed to let AI Agents execute code and operate a GUI securely. GitHub: https://github.com/abshkbh/arrakis Watch Claude build a live Google Docs clone using Arrakis via MCP – with no re-prompting or interruption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ5cAnhAdPQ Key Features - Self-hostable: Run it on your own infra or Linux…

    2025 · github.com

  22. 22AS

    Hello everyone, While working on other projects, I found myself always having to connect and use SELECT * to see dummy entries or new users. I favored the CLI for monitoring my database entries, especially because I was testing and just adding dummy users + our first normal users in projects. So it became a bit tiring always having to connect to postgres, mysql and give select * queries from the CLI.

    2024 · github.com

  23. 23IB

    Recently moved all of my apps to a $4/mo VPS using Coolify Saved tons of $$, and can self-host my Ghost/Wordpress/Postgres instances etc. Built a tool to help others do the same

    2024 · indiehost.io

  24. 24SO

    Hey HN, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on. My startup previously built B2B SaaS, and large enterprises sometimes wanted to self-host it for data residency reasons - but this was a nightmare to build and support. I chatted to other builders/founders and it seems this pain is pretty common. But people tolerate it because the biggest customers often require self-hosting. So we’ve built and open-sourced Shepherd to make it easier to manage these self-hosted deployments. It’s MIT licensed, and provides: 1 - Simplified deployment with a UI to create and manage Helm charts, for…

    2025 · trustshepherd.com

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Refine with a description →