White Ravens
One self-hosted project a week.
What it does, what using it is like and where it falls short, from a small collective that runs its own services and builds open-source tools of its own.
Nothing here is sponsored. Everything here is MIT (unless noted).
Latest Posts
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Jitsi Meet: Video Calls on Your Own Server, Joined From a Link
You can run video calls for your team or family on your own server, and send people a link that opens in their browser.
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Mastodon: Your Own Social Network Server, Still Connected to Everyone Else
You can run a social network server of your own that still follows and is followed by people on every other Mastodon server.
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Odoo: Sales, Stock and Invoices in One Open Source Suite
One open source suite can run a small company’s sales, stock, invoicing and website, and you can start with a single app and add the others later.
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RomM: One Browsable, Playable Library for Your ROM Collection
RomM turns a messy folder of ROMs into one browsable library that plays in the browser and syncs saves between your devices.
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OpenCloud: A Shared File Space That Follows Your Team
OpenCloud is an open source platform for storing, sharing and editing files together, on a server you control, with sync to laptops and phones.
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Archivum Null: Send a File With a Link That Deletes Itself
Sending one sensitive file should not leave a permanent copy in two mailboxes; Archivum Null shares it through an encrypted link that expires.
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BunkerWeb: NGINX, ModSecurity and Bot Filtering in One Reverse Proxy
BunkerWeb puts NGINX, ModSecurity with the OWASP Core Rule Set, rate limits, bot challenges and Let’s Encrypt behind one reverse proxy.
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Memos: Self-Hosted Notes That Stay Yours
Why a self-hosted note app beats cloud lock-in for people who actually write.
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ArchiveBox: Stop Trusting Links to Stay Alive
Why self-hosters should own their web archives instead of hoping pages stay live.
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PrivateBin: Zero-Knowledge Pastebin — The Server Never Sees Your Paste
How client-side encryption turns a pastebin into a tool the server can’t read — and why that matters.
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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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