OSS insights
A live data dashboard for the 227 self-host repos we track. Regenerated on every deploy.
Each section below diffs the live GitHub state against our latest monthly snapshot (May 2026 — captured May 10, 2026). No human edits this page; it just shows whatever the data says today. Subscribe via the /insights/feed.xml RSS feed or hit /api/insights.json for the structured version.
For a narrative read of the same corpus, see State of Self-Host 2026 — same data, story-shaped.
What moved since May 2026 169
Compares each repo's current GitHub state to the May 2026 snapshot. Health flips (alive→stale→dead) cross thresholds; "freshly committed" is anything that shipped a new commit since the snapshot — they tend to dominate when the snapshot is recent.
Recovered ↑ — 3
| Repo | Was | Now | Stars | Last commit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PicGo + libvips/sharp (DIY) lovell/sharp | stale | alive | 32.2k | Apr 26, 2026 | view tool → |
| MediaCMS mediacms-io/mediacms | stale | alive | 4.90k | May 13, 2026 | view tool → |
| BIND isc-projects/bind9 | dead | alive | 740 | May 14, 2026 | view tool → |
Freshly committed since the snapshot — 166
| Repo | Health | Stars | Snapshot commit | New commit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n8n n8n-io/n8n | alive | 187.8k | May 9, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | view tool → |
| Ollama ollama/ollama | alive | 171.4k | May 8, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | view tool → |
| Open WebUI open-webui/open-webui | alive | 137.0k | May 9, 2026 | May 10, 2026 | view tool → |
| Excalidraw excalidraw/excalidraw | alive | 123.2k | May 6, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | view tool → |
| Supabase supabase/supabase | alive | 102.3k | May 8, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | view tool → |
| Immich immich-app/immich | alive | 100.5k | May 9, 2026 | May 13, 2026 | view tool → |
| Hugo + Decap CMS gohugoio/hugo | alive | 88.0k | May 9, 2026 | May 13, 2026 | view tool → |
| Uptime Kuma louislam/uptime-kuma | alive | 86.7k | May 9, 2026 | May 13, 2026 | view tool → |
| Syncthing syncthing/syncthing | alive | 84.0k | May 9, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | view tool → |
| vLLM vllm-project/vllm | alive | 79.9k | May 10, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | view tool → |
Fastest-growing OSS alternatives 10
Star delta between the May 2026 snapshot and the current build. Reads as "X new stars since the last scan".
| Repo | Stars then | Stars now | Δ | % gain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open WebUI open-webui/open-webui | 136.4k | 137.0k | +579 | +0.42% | view tool → |
| LiteLLM BerriAI/litellm | 46.4k | 46.9k | +526 | +1.1% | view tool → |
| n8n n8n-io/n8n | 187.3k | 187.8k | +478 | +0.26% | view tool → |
| vLLM vllm-project/vllm | 79.5k | 79.9k | +406 | +0.51% | view tool → |
| DocuSeal docusealco/docuseal | 16.1k | 16.5k | +378 | +2.3% | view tool → |
| Immich immich-app/immich | 100.2k | 100.5k | +326 | +0.33% | view tool → |
| Excalidraw excalidraw/excalidraw | 122.8k | 123.2k | +313 | +0.25% | view tool → |
| Directus directus/directus | 35.4k | 35.7k | +273 | +0.77% | view tool → |
| Ollama ollama/ollama | 171.1k | 171.4k | +241 | +0.14% | view tool → |
| Uptime Kuma louislam/uptime-kuma | 86.5k | 86.7k | +222 | +0.26% | view tool → |
Most-starred this week 10
Top 10 by absolute live GitHub stars across every OSS alternative we list.
| # | Repo | Stars | Health | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | n8n n8n-io/n8n | 187.8k | alive | view tool → |
| 2 | Ollama ollama/ollama | 171.4k | alive | view tool → |
| 3 | Open WebUI open-webui/open-webui | 137.0k | alive | view tool → |
| 4 | Excalidraw excalidraw/excalidraw | 123.2k | alive | view tool → |
| 5 | Supabase supabase/supabase | 102.3k | alive | view tool → |
| 6 | Immich immich-app/immich | 100.5k | alive | view tool → |
| 7 | Hugo + Decap CMS gohugoio/hugo | 88.0k | alive | view tool → |
| 8 | Uptime Kuma louislam/uptime-kuma | 86.7k | alive | view tool → |
| 9 | Syncthing syncthing/syncthing | 84.0k | alive | view tool → |
| 10 | vLLM vllm-project/vllm | 79.9k | alive | view tool → |
Quietest large repos 10
≥1k stars but no commit for >180 days. Either coasting on past traction or quietly going stale — useful when picking what to actually self-host.
| Repo | Stars | Last commit | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maybe Finance maybe-finance/maybe | 54.1k | Jul 24, 2025 | 10mo ago | view tool → |
| Focalboard mattermost/focalboard | 26.2k | Jun 11, 2025 | 11mo ago | view tool → |
| UVdesk uvdesk/community-skeleton | 18.6k | Oct 1, 2025 | 7mo ago | view tool → |
| DevPod loft-sh/devpod | 14.9k | Nov 14, 2025 | 6mo ago | view tool → |
| Send (Timvisee fork) timvisee/send | 5.72k | Jul 1, 2025 | 11mo ago | view tool → |
| BioDrop EddieHubCommunity/BioDrop | 5.71k | Jul 1, 2024 | 23mo ago | view tool → |
| HTTPie Desktop httpie/desktop | 3.94k | Mar 19, 2025 | 14mo ago | view tool → |
| Trilium Notes TriliumNext/Notes | 2.92k | Jun 24, 2025 | 11mo ago | view tool → |
| OhMyForm ohmyform/ohmyform | 2.89k | Oct 31, 2024 | 19mo ago | view tool → |
| Statping-ng statping-ng/statping-ng | 1.97k | Jun 4, 2025 | 11mo ago | view tool → |
Methodology: live GitHub fetch on every Vercel build (same source as /freshness/),
diffed against the latest row in the repo_health_snapshots Supabase table.
Snapshot cadence: monthly, on the 1st (cron runs at 06:00 UTC). Structured version:
/api/insights.json. RSS: /insights/feed.xml.