White Ravens
Open-source, in the open.
Field notes from a small collective building self-hosted services, privacy-respecting tooling, and the rough edges of running software in the open — plus the lessons we collect along the way.
Nothing here is sponsored. Everything here is MIT (unless noted). Pull up a chair.
Latest Posts
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Yarr: RSS Never Died, It Just Moved to Self-Hosters
A lightweight, self-hosted RSS reader that syncs across devices and keeps your feeds private.
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Colanode: Local-First Collaboration Without the SaaS Tax
Replace Slack and Notion with one self-hosted workspace.
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Archivum Null: Encrypted File Sharing Without the Cloud
Share files securely without accounts, clouds, or trusting a third-party server.
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WriteFreely: Own Your Publishing Platform Without the Overhead
Own your blog without the complexity of WordPress.
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Discourse: Own Your Community's Conversation Layer
A better home for your community: searchable, organized, and fully yours.
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Strapi: Headless CMS That Runs on Your Server
Own your content — a self-hosted headless CMS built for developers.
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Rybbit: Analytics Without the Surveillance
A privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics.
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Pi-hole: Network-Wide Ad Blocking at the DNS Layer
Block ads for every device on your network with a single, lightweight DNS server.
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linkding: A Bookmark Manager You Actually Own
What if you could finally stop losing useful links without handing your bookmarks over to a third party?
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Actual Budget: Own Your Money Data
What if your budget stayed truly yours?
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Paperless-ngx: Self-Hosted Document Archival That Actually Scales
Finding a document shouldn’t be harder than finding a file.
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Immich: Your Photo Library Without the Black Box
Tired of storing your photos in someone else’s cloud?
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archivum-null: Why Immutable Storage Matters for Legal Evidence
Legal evidence lives or dies by its chain of custody — and most cloud storage breaks that chain the moment a file touches a third party.
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