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24 alternatives to Kahawai – An open source, modular media system

Kahawai is a self-hosted server for streaming your own movies, series, anime and music. Written in Rust on GStreamer, it plays the cheapest path that works and splits storage and transcoding across machines.

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, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    kuku▲539

    Your open-source, local second brain for every AI

    Jan 2026 · kuku.mom · its alternatives →

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    Kawara▲214

    Personal search engine for your videos

    2025 · kawara.ai · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to share the status with the Owncast project. If Wordpress is your self-hosted version of Medium, then this is your self-hosted version of Twitch. I've been little by little chipping away at building an easy to use and super useful live streaming server for individuals. It's still early days, but some recent updates include a dashboard where you can see some basic viewer metrics, configuration settings, and how your hardware is handling all that video crunching. We all know working with video can be intensive on the hardware side, so hopefully this helps people keep tabs on things.…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Actor runtime and distributed systems framework for Rust - LeonHartley/Coerce-rs

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, wanted to share my recent weekend hack project. I wanted to improve upon the existing space for looking up information about IP addresses and ASNs. The backend is written in Rust and pulls BGP data every 8 hours from the RIPE RIS project to build up a routing table and also adds geolocation information. The frontend is using React and Tailwind. Would love any feedback or suggestions on what to improve.

    2023 · ip.guide · its alternatives →

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    kaskade is a text user interface for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style! - sauljabin/kaskade

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A versatile web framework and library for building client-side and server-side web applications - ivanceras/sauron

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await

    2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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    I'm happy to announce the release of Polaris 0.15.0 . Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server, to enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. It is free and open-source software, without any kind of premium version. This release is the biggest one since Polaris' humble beginnings 9 years ago. It's technically not a rewrite but there is not much code that was left untouched. The highlights are: - New visual design for the web client (screenshots[1]) - Ability to browse the music collection by artist/album/genre, not only by file - Support for multi-value…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the facade. S3Stream is the stream storage primitive, used in AutoMQ, shipped as a Rust library. Coordination is a command log in Postgres.

    Aug 2026 · picomq.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kafkai▲168

    Fully unique and readable content generated by AI

    2020 · kafkai.com · its alternatives →

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    Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Truly cross platform, truly native. multiple backend GUI for rust - ivanceras/sauron-native

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    soketi▲161

    Your self-hosted, open-source WebSockets server

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Unique and readable content generated by AI

    2021 · kafkai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m excited to share Kameo, a lightweight Rust library that helps you build fault-tolerant, distributed, and asynchronous actors. If you're working on distributed systems, microservices, or real-time applications, Kameo offers a simple yet powerful API for handling concurrency, panic recovery, and remote messaging between nodes. Key Features: - Async Rust: Each actor runs as a separate Tokio task, making concurrency management simple. - Remote Messaging: Seamlessly send messages to actors across different nodes. - Supervision and Fault Tolerance: Create self-healing systems with actor…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go. - lovoo/goka

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! We posted a Show HN for Rivet last year for our container orchestration project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37188659). In that time, a lot has changed that I think HN will find interesting. Rivet is open-source actor infrastructure similar to Cloudflare's Durable Objects. Rivet itself already serves millions of MAU in production using our current container runtime – primarily for multiplayer games – and Rivet Actors are a new extension to support actor-like workloads. Rivet Actor's core primitives are RPC, state, and events. Actors are powered by Rust, V8…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS - matanolabs/matano

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Opensource IPTV service based on gstreamer can relay/encode/shift streams and many many other features.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! I got quite some feedback on a web server I'm building, so I'm rewriting the server to be faster and easier to use. I (and maybe some other contributors?) have optimized the web server performance, especially for static file serving and reverse proxying (the last use case I optimized for very recently). I also picked a different configuration format and specification, what I believe is easier to write. Automatic TLS is also enabled by default out of the box, you don't need to even enable it manually, like it was in the original server I was building. Yesterday, I released the first…

    2025 · ferron.sh · its alternatives →

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