Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Forgejo Appliance, a private Git server based on OrbStack and Tailscale
an opinionated blueprint for deploying Forgejo in an OrbStack VM with Ubuntu, PostgreSQL and the tsbridge reverse proxy - highpost/forgejo-appliance
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling. What it does: - Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM-aware context management) to local models running on consumer hardware - Takes an 8B model from ~53% to ~99% on multi-step agentic workflows without changing the model - just the system around it - Ships with an eval harness and interactive dashboard so you can reproduce every number I wanted to run a handful of always-on agentic systems…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…
2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →
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Logical multi-master PostgreSQL replication. Contribute to pgEdge/spock development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist
2022 · drift.maxleiter.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight boilerplate for a universal webapp based on koa, mongodb, node, vue, and webpack - yunhan0/koa-vue-fullstack
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ForgeMT is a multi-tenant platform for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on AWS. It gives platform teams an IaC-driven way to operate ephemeral EC2 runners and ARC/Kubernetes runner scale sets for many tenant repositories. - cisco-open/forge
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I finally got fed up with making work + personal Git repos work on my machine. Ever clone a work repository and accidentally make commits using your personal email? Or forget how to make your work repos use your work SSH key? Yeah... same. So I built the tool I've always wanted. GitPersona - a CLI tool for managing many git profiles on a single machine. Shoutout to my boy Codex for helping me finally ship this.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shameless plug for the functionality my team shipped to beta just before Christmas. For context, Forge is Atlassian's product extensibility framework that lets you write your own plugins (for lack of a better word) for our cloud SaaS products: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/ Coming up in a few weeks from another of my teams will be a feature we call "Dynamic Pipelines" which will let you use a similar Forge lambda function to mutate/generate Bitbucket Pipelines workflows at runtime.
2024 · bitbucket.org · its alternatives →
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Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Vercel and Render
Apr 2026 · deploystack.builtbymohit.com · its alternatives →
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There are plenty of ways to deploy your apps. PaaS options like Vercel or Netlify are convenient but can get pricey as projects scale. VPS hosting is cheaper, but setting it up (Linux, networking, SSL, etc.) can be daunting. That’s why glueh-wyy-huet (https://github.com/glueh-wyy-huet) and I (https://github.com/biersoeckli) built QuickStack during our bachelor studies at Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences. QuickStack simplifies deployment by letting you deploy directly from a Git repo or Docker registry to any VPS. It’s free, open source, and…
2025 · quickstack.dev · its alternatives →
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Linter for dangerous Postgres migration patterns in Diesel and SQLx. Prevents downtime caused by unsafe schema changes. - ayarotsky/diesel-guard
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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lazygit-style TUI for Postgres. Navigate schemas, run queries, view explain plans — without leaving the terminal. - lucasfrederico/pgcraft
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built Server Compass because I got tired of two extremes: paying $200+/month to Vercel/Railway for a polished deploy experience, or wrestling with self-hosted panels (Coolify, CapRover, Dokploy) that eat up half my VPS resources just to run their dashboard. The core idea: A GUI SSH client that gives you Vercel-like deployment UX on your own VPS. Nothing gets installed on your server except your apps – every command runs over SSH from your desktop. What it does: - 1-click deploys from GitHub repos or 160+ pre-built templates (Postgres, WordPress, Ghost, Supabase, n8n,…
Sep 2026 · servercompass.app · its alternatives →
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I built this because I was job hunting and my best work lives on private self-hosted Gitea server. The options for sharing wasn't too much to brag about and I'm not a fan of github. Making my repos public was out of the question due to exposure of IP and so was adding recruiters as collaborators or sending ZIPs. So I made ShareMyGit which generates a read-only share link to your private repos or portfolio of repos. No mirroring, no duplication, no account creation for viewers. Works with gitea.com, forgejo-instansed and self-hosted instances of both or community ran forgejo instances.…
Feb 2026 · sharemygit.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm a heavy Obsidian user. I recently got tired of the two usual sync tradeoffs: 1. File-based sync (iCloud/Dropbox/Syncthing) that leaves you waiting for changes to propagate, or hands you a "conflicted copy." 2. Self-hosted setups (like CouchDB) that need touching VMs and dockerized databases to sync markdown. So I built YAOS: a local-first, real-time sync engine for Obsidian. Self-hosting OSS should have better UX. You can deploy the backend to your own Cloudflare account in one click. It fits comfortably in Cloudflare's free tier (costing $0/month for normal…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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It's time we talked about something many developers, data analysts, and even web application servers are guilty of: downgrading PostgreSQL connection security. Too often, we see connections dropped from full TLS verification to "any TLS" (i.e., sslmode=require) or, even worse, plain text connections. Why? Because most cloud providers, like AWS or Google Cloud SQL, use non-public Certificate Authorities for PostgreSQL. The result? Unverified TLS connections because no one has time to set up all devices across an organization to trust custom certificate authorities. And here's the most…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Forge▲2The modular Go framework for production backend services
Feb 2026 · forge.xraph.com · its alternatives →
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This idea has been floating in my head for about 10 years. Some of you might remember LowEndSpirit.com back before it became a forum, I started that. I've been obsessed with making tiny, cheap VPS actually useful ever since. TierHive is my attempt to make 128MB VPS great again :) It's a NAT VPS (KVM) platform with true hourly billing. Spin up a server, use it for 3 hours, delete it, pay for 3 hours. No monthly commitments, no minimums beyond a $5 top-up. The tradeoff is NAT (no dedicated IPv4), but I've tried to make that less painful: - Every account gets a /24 private subnet with full…
Mar 2026 · tierhive.com · its alternatives →
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[DEPRECATED] Git based static page deploy system like github pages. Based on nginx and gitolite. - shuhaowu/gioku
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy - jiangwenyuan/nuster
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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EU-sovereign Git hosting. Your code, your data, your rules.
Jul 2026 · gitbuild.dev · its alternatives →
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wsgrok▲7I built it for myself because ngrok didn't let me add one more domain unless I paid $12 more. I probably should've looked for alternatives before building my own, but my grudge got in the way . Once I started, I wanted to make it better than the other options. Silly, I know. No one probably cares. I plan to open source it sometime next year because I’ve got other projects to finish first. It's free until I deplete my cloud credits, then it will switch to a tier-based model with a free option.
Jan 2026 · wsgrok.com · its alternatives →
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Over the past few months, as we scaled our internal AI Agents, we hit a dead end: Running LLM-generated arbitrary code in Docker is basically running naked on security due to container escape risks. But using full traditional VMs takes minutes to boot and eats too much memory to support high-density concurrency. We loved the developer experience of SaaS sandboxes on the market, but they are closed-source, expensive, and have too high a barrier to entry for self-hosting. So, our team decided to build our own. After months of grinding, using RustVMM and KVM, we built a blazing-fast,…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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