Cards / sources
Where we find apps
The places we look when choosing which app to make a card for, what an app needs to qualify, and the apps we have looked at that are not cards yet. Apps change quickly, so each source shows when it was last reviewed.
Sources
| Source | Good for | How we use it | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-selfhosted (opens in a new tab) | established self-hosted apps in about 90 categories, with licence, stars, platforms and last update our tools read its data directly. It is curated, so new AI tools reach it after a delay | Read automatically | 2026-11-01 |
| MCP Registry (opens in a new tab) | MCP servers; ones with packages run on your own machine, ones with only remotes are already hosted | Followed by our AI agent | 2026-11-01 |
| GitHub topics (opens in a new tab) | new and fast-growing projects: vector-database, llmops, llm-observability, local-llm, ai-agents, comfyui, whisper, text-to-speech, mcp-server sort by recently updated; stars alone favour old projects | Followed by our AI agent | 2026-11-01 |
| Awesome-LLMOps (opens in a new tab) | LLM observability, serving and evaluation tools | Followed by our AI agent | 2026-11-01 |
| Trendshift (opens in a new tab) | GitHub repositories trending now; how Edge0 turned up | Browsed by a person | 2026-11-01 |
| Hacker News (opens in a new tab) | launches and Show HN posts for new self-hostable tools | Browsed by a person | 2026-11-01 |
| OpenAlternative (opens in a new tab) | open-source alternatives to named commercial products, which matches how people phrase a need ("replaces") | Browsed by a person | 2026-11-01 |
| selfh.st (opens in a new tab) | a weekly newsletter of self-hosted releases and new projects; its icon library supplies the cards' icons | Browsed by a person | 2026-11-01 |
What an app needs to become a card
- not archived, and updated in the last six months
- a Docker image for amd64 and arm64, or a native macOS build (said so in its entry)
- needs no third-party service to run
- has a licence a catalog can list
Looked at, not yet a card
Listed so the same app is not researched twice. A reason describes the app as it was on that date, and any of these can become a card.
| App | Notes | Looked at |
|---|---|---|
| Flowise (opens in a new tab) | archived by its maintainers in August 2026 Worth another look if it is unarchived. | 2026-10-31 |
| Milvus (opens in a new tab) | standalone mode runs with etcd and MinIO beside it, a larger setup than the other vector databases; kept as a later candidate | 2026-10-31 |
| LanceDB (opens in a new tab) | an embedded library rather than a server, so there is nothing to publish | 2026-10-31 |
| ComfyUI (opens in a new tab) | no official Docker image yet, and it has no sign-in of its own Worth another look if an official image is published. | 2026-10-31 |
| InvokeAI (opens in a new tab) | the published image is amd64 only and uses an NVIDIA GPU; kept as a conditional candidate | 2026-10-31 |
Know a source or an app we have missed? Tell us (opens in a new tab), or add your own app.