Alternatives to Online Services

Personal Cloud Platforms

• arkOS - Development Ceased. (More Info..)
  • Crowd-funded. Open Source.
• Sandstorm
  • Sandstorm is an open source platform for personal servers.
  • Sandstorm lets you run your own server and install apps like EtherCalc, GitLab, Wekan, Wave, and more as easily as you'd install apps on your phone.
  • Apps.
  • Uses a model like Docker for installing apps.
• YunoHost
  • Debian-based distro aiming to make self-hosting accessible to everyone.

One-Click Installer

• BitNami
  • 90+ applications.
  • Can install on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Mail server (with Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, etc.).

• Zimbra
  • Download
  • Videos
• RoundCube
  • Screenshots
  • It's free and open source.
• SmarterMail (only for Windows)
  • There's a free edition that is fully functional.
  • It has an API (sort of).
• hMailServer
• MailInABox Source Code
  • Works on Ubuntu but not Windows.

Web Mail UI

• Kite
• Mailpile
  • Crowd-funded project. Open source. Looks promising. Will be supported on arkOS.
• Mailur
  • Webmail client with Gmail-like conversations.

Chat

• Prosody IM XMPP Chat Server
• Kaiwa browser-based, HTML5-only chat client
• Rocket Chat Alternative to Slack
• Let's Chat Self-hosted chat app for small teams
• Mattermost is an open source, on-prem Slack-alternative
• Zulip powerful open source group chat runs on your own server

IRC

• Shout

Blog

• Wordpress
• Ghost

Wiki

• This wiki should be used for collecting knowledage.
• Must have WYSIWYG editing.
• Should be open source.
• Realms Wiki
  • Git based wiki written in Python Inspired by Gollum, Ghost, and Dillinger. Basic authentication and registration included.
  • Source Code

Note Taking

• Alternative to OneNote, Evernote, etc.
• RedNoteBook
  • Desktop-based, no phone apps.
  • Cross-platform, open source.
• Good example is Workflowy but it's not open source and can't be self-hosted.
• LittleOutliner
• OpenNote
• MagPie
  • Git-backed Evernote replacement.
  • No longer under active development. More info.
• Paperwork
  • Source Code
  • OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep.
  • Demo.

Bookmark Management

• Bookie
  • Python based delicious.com replacement
  • Demo
  • No longer active. Demo website is down.
• Shaarli
  • personal, minimalist, super-fast, no-database delicious clone

Browser-based Document Editing

• Alternatives to Google Docs and Office Online
• EtherPad
• Reveal.js for Presentations
• hyhyhy for presentations. Source code. Uses Ruby, produces static pages.
• Hastebin is an open source pastebin written in node.js
• Remark is a simple, in-browser, markdown-driven slideshow tool. It can be hosted on GitHub gists via GistDeck (Source Code)

RSS Reader

• Selfoss
• TinyTinyRSS
  • Android Client.
  • Secure TinyTinyRSS.
  • Themes.
  • How to Build Your Own Syncing RSS Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS.
• NewsBlur
  • Android Client

Read-It-Later

• Alternatives to Instapaper, Readibility, and Pocket.
• Wallabag.
• Goose is an Article Fetching service. It's open source.
• ~~Filo ~~
  • Simple but cute Instapaper clone. Written in Rails.
  • It's open source.
  • No longer active. Demo site is down.

GTD/ToDo software

• This is alternative to RTM (Remember The Milk)
• TaskBoard
  • A Kanban-inspired app for keeping track of things that need to get done.
  • Looks like Trello which is very good.
  • You can create multiple boards and multiple sections in each board.
  • Has an API.
  • Uses Markdown for text.
  • AngularJS, Bootstrap and SQLite.
• TaskFreak
  • Doesn't have mobile apps.
  • Doesn't look very good.
• Kanboard
  • Kanboard is a simple visual task board software. Features and screenshots.
  • Source code
• Wekan
  • Open-source kanban board that let you organize things in cards, and cards in lists.
  • Written in Meteor Javascript Framework, using Node.js and MongoDB.
  • Deployable to Sandstorm and Docker.
• ToDo.txt
  • UI:
    • TodoTxtJs
    • HTML5
    • DayTasks (Desktop client for Linux)
  • Mobile Apps
    • Todo.txt for Windows Phone 7
    • Todo.txt for Android
• Full list of GTD software

Cloud Storage

• Run your own Dropbox server
• SparkleShare
• OwnCloud
  • Has apps built on top of it, including Calendar and Contacts.
  • Has sync capabilities.
  • Has lots of apps.
• Cozy
  • Personal Cloud you can host, customize and fully control
  • Sync your contacts, calendars and files between your devices and your personal server
  • Demo
  • Source Code
  • Runs on Linux, available for VirtualBox, Docker and DigitalOcean. Installations.
  • Looks really good. Built using Node.js
  • Built custom apps
  • Already existing custom apps
• Pydio
• Camlistore is a different kind of storage.
  • Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem.
  • Camlistore (Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed Storage) is under active development.
• Tonido
• Seafile
• OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.
  • Very similar to Synology software

Newsletter

• Mailtrain

Remote Desktop Service

• LogMeIn
• TeamViewer
• Five Best Remote Desktop Tools
• 5 of the Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Software for Linux.

Photos

• Trovebox (formally OpenPhoto)
  • Community Edition.
  • Has mobile apps: Android.
  • Company has shut down in March 2015.
• Lychee - Photo Management Server
  • Demo

Mind Mapping Software

• My Mind
  • Demo

Design tool

• Gravit.
  • Source Code.

IFTTT Clone

• Huginn
  • more than IFTTT-clone
  • Video
• WhenBot

Server Management Dashboard

• ZPanel
• Webmin
• Ajenti

Web Analytics

• Piwik
  • Open Source. Code
  • Video
  • PHP, MySQL.

VPN Server

• OpenVPN
  • Source code
• Pritunl
  • Source Code
  • Python.

Link shortening service

• Shrinkr

Social Network

• ThinkUp to collect Tweets and Facebook data. No longer available.
• Diaspora Social Network
• Twitter-like Social Media Network
  • GnuSocial (formally StatusNet)
  • Pump.io
• Movim
  • Source Code
  • Looks good, based on XMPP, written in PHP
• Heim
  • A real-time community platform.
  • It looks like a chat room.
  • Demo
  • Source Code
• Telescope
  • With Telescope, you can set up a site like Product Hunt or Hacker News in minutes. And you'll then be able to tweak your app's layout, colors, and branding without having to write a single line of code.
  • Built with Javascript and Meteor
  • Demo and Source code

Password Manager service

• Keepass
• Move Firefox Sync from Mozilla's servers to my own VPS.
  • http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html
  • http://thias.marmotte.net/2010/10/firefox-sync-with-your-own-server/
• Google Wave (Now, Apache Wave)

Diary

• DayJournal
• Gitbook

Peer-to-Peer Sync

• BitTorrent Sync
• SyncThing

Push Notification

• Alternative to Pushbullet
• Pushjet
  • Open source with number of projects
  • Has a Server API written in Python, and an Android client

Source Code Management

• Gogs
  • A self-hosted Git service written in Go
  • Source code
• GitLab
  • Alternative to GitHub.
  • Runs on Linux
  • Features

Personal Assistant

• Sopel (formally Willie) is a simple, lightweight, open source, easy-to-use IRC utility bot, written in Python. It can leave notes for people, give you reminders, check RSS feeds.
  • List of Commands.
• Hubot.

Public Datasets

• OpenFoodFacts

SSL

• Let's Encrypt

Resources

• PRISM Break
  • List of alternatives to online services on multiple platforms.
• awesome-selfhosted
  • List of alternatives to online services.

Android Tablet

• How to easily share files between tablet and computer.
• How to access shared folder on home computers from tablet

Linux VPS Hosting

• Linode

• Digital Ocean

• BeyondVPS

• A2Hosting

• VR

• DME Hosting

• BuyVM

Windows VPS Hosting

• SoftSys Hosting

Tips on choosing a host

Webmin - Free Control Panel for Linux

Virtualmin - For managing the domains and users

Search for hosting offers on forums like:

• http://www.webhostingtalk.com
• http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104
• https://lowendbox.com/