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24 alternatives to HortusFox

Self-hosted collaborative plant parenting system

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HortusFox launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    Selfhosted and collaborative home plants management system

    2024 · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    A management and tracking app for indoor and outdoor plants

    2025 · its alternatives →

  3. 3HF

    HortusFox is a free and open-source management, tracking and journaling system for indoor and outdoor plants. It's 100% FOSS software under the MIT license, but still has grown to a scale that can be considered enterprise-scale. That was possible because of the great community that evolved around this leafy project, that kept me motivated as well as supported me in a very kind and lovely way. After a few months of no new version release, a few days ago I've published v5.3 of HortusFox, which provides some cool changes to help empower your plant parenting. You can see a very detailed…

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Empowerment for houseplant management

    2025 · its alternatives →

  5. 5S3

    2023 · plant.max-richter.dev · its alternatives →

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    HeyGrid▲258

    A link-in-bio tool and an infinite grid

    Oct 2025 · heygrid.co · its alternatives →

  7. 7HB

    Hey all, I just wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past month. After years of heavy frameworks, I really like the idea of using htmx, but it’s a little too low level for me and needs a thin layer above it to facilitate things like components, better syntax with complex JS inside of an attribute, etc To try and solve this problem with a very minimal stack (golang + htmx) that I've been really enjoying, I'm building this project to cater to my needs and was thinking it would be useful for other developers.

    2024 · htmgo.dev · its alternatives →

  8. 8MM
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    Improve your dev team’s work output, wellbeing & teamwork

    2024 · its alternatives →

  10. 10IM

    I recently dug up an old project in an attempt to improve on it. It's a code sandbox for playing around with HTMX in the browser, that runs a mock server within the sandbox iframe. The server "framework" is loosely based on Django, so if you're familiar with Django, you'll immediately understand what's going on. I recommend clicking through the examples. Github repo: https://github.com/lassebomh/htmx-playground Probably my favorite part is the lack of HTMX specific code. It's designed to mimic the client and server, but really nothing else. In principle, this means that…

    2024 · lassebomh.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Automate self-hosting of commercial open source products

    2023 · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Host LLMs across devices sharing GPU to make your AI go brrr

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Plant trees while you browse

    2025 · its alternatives →

  14. 14PB
  15. 15
    Leaf▲335

    Plug-n'-plant automatic cannabis home grow system

    2016 · its alternatives →

  16. 16
    Horti▲172

    Plant subscription that builds your confidence in plant care

    2019 · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    Verdoo▲158

    Unf*cking the planet, one tree at a time

    2021 · its alternatives →

  18. 18
    Umbrel▲195

    A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting

    2022 · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    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 →

  20. 20IM

    vfox is a cross-platform version manager(similar to nvm, fvm, sdkman, asdf-vm, etc.), extendable via plugins. It allows you to different versions for different projects, different versions for different shell. It also supports to lock runtime version for project or shell and support for existing config files .node-version, .nvmrc, .sdkmanrc for easy migration. Available Plugins: https://vfox.lhan.me/plugins/available.html Supported Shell: Powershell、Clink、Cmder、Bash、ZSH

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Flora▲107

    Focus better

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Prōpa▲75

    Share your plants, propagate your passion

    2021 · its alternatives →

  23. 23DT

    Hey, HN! With all recent agentic workflows being primarily terminal- and tmux-based, I wanted to share a little project I created about decade ago. I've continued to use this as my primary terminal "window manager" and wanted to share in case others might find it useful. I would love to hear about other's terminal-based workflows and any other tools you may use with similar functionality.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Home farming made easy.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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