self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
Recent window: last 5.2 months
(2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior
5.2 months.
security · 291 members ·
Data as of 2026-09-30
This cluster comprises developer-centric utilities, decentralized networks, and security tools built for self-hosting, local execution, or private data storage. It is primarily adopted by software engineers, sysadmins, and privacy advocates seeking complete control over their computing environments. What distinguishes this cluster is its strong emphasis on local-first architectures, Rust-based tooling, and open-source or self-hosted alternatives to mainstream cloud services.
Metrics
- Stage
- crowded
- Recent count
- 187
- Prior count
- 71
- Total count
- 291
- Momentum
- 163.38
- Attention
- 0.35
- Crowding
- 0.87
- Concentration
- 0.81
- Opportunity
- 0.33
Opportunity components
- Attention
- 0.35
- Low crowding
- 0.13
- Momentum (normalized)
- 0.66
- Low concentration
- 0.19
Source split
- github
- 19 (0.10)
- hn
- 56 (0.30)
- ph
- 111 (0.59)
- yc
- 1 (0.01)
Dominant source: ph · Divergence: 0.59
Members
|
Name
|
Source
|
Upvotes ▲
|
Launched
|
| I built an encrypted BLE dongle for pasting stuff to air-gapped devices |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-04 |
| Kubernetes operator that manages Keycloak configurations |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-12 |
| CommitGate |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-21 |
| Tlx |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-25 |
| Potatoverse platform for webapps, SQLite and static binary |
HN |
5 |
2026-02-28 |
| KeyEnv |
HN |
5 |
2026-01-18 |
| Gottp |
HN |
5 |
2026-02-11 |
| Baby Vault |
HN |
5 |
2026-02-11 |
| Shrouded, secure memory management in Rust |
HN |
5 |
2026-03-23 |
| WooTTY |
HN |
5 |
2026-03-04 |
| Cloudstic |
HN |
5 |
2026-03-03 |
| SelfCertForge, manage root CAs and self-signed certs on macOS/Windows |
HN |
5 |
2026-05-13 |
| Lightweight C++23 S3 client with no extra deps (just curl and OpenSSL) |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-13 |
| SimpleW |
HN |
6 |
2026-09-08 |
| I built an open-source, local-first alternative to LangSmith |
HN |
6 |
2026-05-08 |
| Potatoverse platform for webapps, SQLite and static binary |
HN |
6 |
2026-03-01 |
| UltraLocked |
HN |
6 |
2025-11-17 |
| Kekkai |
HN |
6 |
2026-02-03 |
| Raven |
HN |
6 |
2026-09-09 |
| better-env |
HN |
6 |
2025-11-23 |
| I made a Rust Terminal UI for OpenSnitch, a Linux application firewall |
HN |
6 |
2025-11-21 |
| I built a minimal open-source CMS (FREE) |
HN |
6 |
2026-01-02 |
| Terminal-Wrench, a dataset of 331 realistic hackable environments |
HN |
6 |
2026-04-15 |
| Freenet alpha, a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web |
HN |
6 |
2026-01-08 |
| 2FA Authenticator |
PH |
6 |
2026-09-29 |
| Auto-Unpublish NPM Packages Published Outside CI |
HN |
6 |
2025-11-27 |
| Trustmux |
HN |
6 |
2026-06-21 |
| zpoint |
GITHUB |
7 |
2026-09-17 |
| Liberty |
HN |
7 |
2026-01-14 |
| Beacon CLI for self-hosted monitoring, remote access and deployments |
HN |
7 |
2026-05-28 |
| Git-workty |
HN |
7 |
2026-01-06 |
| Open-source Agent in Rust that can't delete your database |
HN |
7 |
2025-11-16 |
| CI/CD in your terminal, zero YAML |
HN |
7 |
2026-03-25 |
| Awesome-Public-Key-Infrastructure-Platform |
GITHUB |
7 |
2026-09-15 |
| Execute local prompts in SSH remote shells |
HN |
7 |
2026-03-11 |
| Ctx |
HN |
7 |
2026-01-23 |
| Git-agecrypt |
HN |
7 |
2026-04-27 |
| Limen |
HN |
7 |
2026-04-25 |
| Velo |
HN |
7 |
2026-02-21 |
| CambiOS |
HN |
8 |
2026-06-11 |
| Shuck |
HN |
8 |
2026-04-30 |
| dev101x-pentest-lab |
GITHUB |
8 |
2026-09-16 |
| Privacy focused client side password generator |
HN |
8 |
2026-08-19 |
| Cc-md |
HN |
8 |
2026-02-21 |
| KeeperPass |
PH |
8 |
2026-09-23 |
| I just fixed .env once and for all |
HN |
8 |
2025-11-23 |
| fresh-session-remote-browser |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-26 |
| brave-search-api-examples |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-21 |
| Hosting-File-Manager |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-11 |
| cdn-tunnel |
GITHUB |
9 |
2026-09-16 |