Self-host stacks

9 curated open-source bundles, picked by who's running the stack — not by category.

Each stack is 4-6 OSS picks that live well together: shared auth, shared VPS, shared integration patterns. Pick the one that matches what you're building, then drill into each tool's page to see the migration sketch from the SaaS it replaces.

Don't want to manage a VPS? See /managed/ — vendors that run these tools for you.

Indie Hacker self-host stack compose ready
5 picks · starts at $30/mo · hardest easy

Solo founder shipping a SaaS side-project who wants integrations, analytics, email, and deploy on one cheap VPS — not five SaaS subscriptions.

Replaces: Zapier · Google Analytics · Mailchimp · Calendly · Heroku
Remote team self-host stack compose ready
5 picks · starts at $30/mo · hardest moderate

Distributed team of 5-25 replacing Slack + Notion + Asana + Zoom + 1Password with one VPS bill.

Replaces: Slack · Notion · Asana · Zoom · 1Password
Customer support team self-host stack compose ready
4 picks · starts at $30/mo · hardest moderate

Support org running live chat + email inbox + community forum + status broadcasts without paying Intercom + Help Scout + Discourse Cloud + Mailchimp separately.

Replaces: Intercom · Help Scout · Discourse Hosting (Discourse.org) · Mailchimp
Dev platform self-host stack compose ready
5 picks · starts at $45/mo · hardest moderate

Engineering team of 5-20 self-hosting git + CI + image registry + error tracking + cloud dev envs because GitHub Enterprise is overkill but a public repo is wrong.

Replaces: GitLab · CircleCI · Docker Hub · Sentry · GitHub Codespaces
Observability on $5 self-host stack compose ready
5 picks · starts at $43/mo · hardest hard

Solo or small-team operator who wants uptime checks + dashboards + analytics + status page + paging — and refuses to budget Datadog money for it.

Replaces: UptimeRobot · Datadog · Google Analytics · Statuspage (Atlassian) · PagerDuty
Marketing team self-host stack compose ready
5 picks · starts at $35/mo · hardest moderate

Growth/marketing team retaining first-party data — emails, attribution, forms, content — without piping through Mailchimp + HubSpot + Google Analytics + Typeform.

Replaces: Mailchimp · HubSpot · Google Analytics · Typeform · Substack
Product team self-host stack compose ready
5 picks · starts at $45/mo · hardest moderate

Product manager + small product team running event analytics + planning + spec docs + user-research scheduling + in-product surveys on owned infrastructure.

Replaces: Amplitude · Linear · Notion · Calendly · Typeform
AI builder self-host stack compose ready
4 picks · starts at $220/mo · hardest easy

Developer building LLM-powered apps who wants local inference + a chat UI + IDE assist + translation, all running on their own hardware or a rented GPU box.

Replaces: OpenAI API · ChatGPT · GitHub Copilot · DeepL
Privacy-first self-host stack compose ready
5 picks · starts at $35/mo · hardest moderate

Security-conscious team or regulated org keeping analytics + credentials + SSO + notes + video inside its own perimeter, with zero data egress to US ad-tech.

Replaces: Google Analytics · 1Password · Auth0 · Evernote · Zoom