Self hosted, open source software

Kimai

The price everyone charges for time-tracking is insanity when Kimai is available. I self host this behind a cloudflare tunnel and it's the easiest $20/month we save. I've even seen it available on CPanel, managed hosting installations. It's a no-brainer for a freelancer.

Kimai Time-Tracking

Kimai - free and easy time-tracking for freelancer, agencies and companies with user and invoice handling.

Flame Dashboard

When you have a network of contractors and a bunch of cobbled together services, this self hosted dashboard helps keep things straight.

GitHub - pawelmalak/flame: Flame is self-hosted startpage for your server. Easily manage your apps and bookmarks with built-in editors.

Flame is self-hosted startpage for your server. Easily manage your apps and bookmarks with built-in editors. - pawelmalak/flame

Twenty CRM

I tried to self host this unsuccessfully, I'm a poor-to-moderate IT guy so I've happily started paying them to manage. Having an affordable, easy CRM has been so helpful. I have less than 100 contacts in there right now but with my small business don't need many more.

Twenty - The #1 Open-Source CRM

Twenty is a modern, open-source CRM alternative to Salesforce—fully customizable, affordable, and powered by the community.

N8N + Baserow

I use N8N for a few CRM automations, some social posting and experimentation (how about an Adobe Media Encoder node?!) but the star of this show is an app I made called SendIT.

Using templates I create on my Ghost blog, I've created a grip of custom emails I use when sending things to clients. I have templates for download and review links, delivery of assets, pitches and package tracking numbers. N8N runs the backend, Baserow made it easy to create a front-end. Highly recommended.

n8n.io - AI workflow automation tool

n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool

Baserow - Open source no-code database

Discover Baserow, the open-source no-code platform for building databases and applications. No code or technical skills needed. Start creating for free today!

Bookstack

I've put a ton of our information that gets re-used by producers and contractors into a private wiki. Travel details, processes, model release templates, everything in one place.

BookStack

BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

Nextcloud

What a pain the arse to setup! But now that it's working it powers our shared project files. Mainly between editor and assistant editor, I don't trust it to share files with clients (I use Frame.io and my Synology NAS) but as a central place for project files, coupled with rsync automated backups - it's brilliant!

Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform

The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe

Uptime Kuma

With all of these services, it's good to make sure they're up and alive. Uptime Kuma is excellent to ensure uptime. Coupled with notifications, I feel good that I'll catch anything that goes down. I've also run into having my portfolio down when a client was trying to access it, a nightmare. Uptime Kuma is that security that everything is working.

GitHub - louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool. Contribute to louislam/uptime-kuma development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cal.com

I don't self host this but, what an incredible piece of scheduling software. I hate booking meetings, making invites, the whole deal.

Cal.com | Open Scheduling Infrastructure

A fully customizable scheduling software for individuals, businesses taking calls and developers building scheduling platforms where users meet users.