Self-Hosted Productivity & PM

14 stacks for anyone who wants project tracking without per-seat pricing. Each one is a vanilla compose.yaml that runs locally with docker compose up, with a measured RAM footprint and a one-step deploy to Miget from $5/month flat.

#the stacks

Actual Budget

Local-first envelope budgeting - end-to-end encrypted, synced by a $5 server you own.

1 service 256 MiB RAM from $5/mo

BookStack

A simple, beautiful wiki - shelves, books, chapters, pages. Confluence calm, on a self-hosted MariaDB.

2 services 2 GiB RAM from $13/mo

Buzz

experimental

Block’s team workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms - on a Nostr relay you own.

4 services 2.8 GiB RAM from $25/mo

Dawarich

experimental

Self-hosted location history - a Google Maps Timeline replacement that keeps your movements yours.

4 services 3.5 GiB RAM from $25/mo

Docmost

A real Confluence / Notion alternative - collaborative wiki on managed Postgres + Valkey + Buckets, no per-seat bill.

3 services 2.3 GiB RAM from $25/mo

Fizzy

37signals’ free kanban - fast boards for bugs, issues, and ideas. Trello without the per-seat bill.

1 service 512 MiB RAM from $5/mo

Karakeep

Bookmark everything - links, notes, images - archived, searchable, and AI-tagged on your own box.

3 services 2 GiB RAM from $13/mo

Linkwarden

A bookmark manager that preserves pages - screenshot, PDF, readable HTML - so your links never rot.

3 services 2 GiB RAM from $13/mo

Memos

The lightweight note hub - markdown thoughts captured in seconds, on your own $5 server.

1 service 256 MiB RAM from $5/mo

Miniflux

A minimalist, blazing-fast RSS reader - one Go binary on managed Postgres, your feeds on your own box.

2 services 1.1 GiB RAM from $13/mo

Outline

The team wiki that feels like a product - stateless on managed Postgres + Miget Buckets, no per-seat math.

3 services 2.3 GiB RAM from $25/mo

Paperless-ngx

Scan, OCR, and full-text-search every document you own - the paperless office, on your infrastructure.

3 services 3.3 GiB RAM from $25/mo

Plane

experimental

Open-source project management - issues, cycles, modules, roadmap. A Jira / Linear / ClickUp alternative, flat-priced.

5 services 6.5 GiB RAM from $49/mo

Stirling-PDF

50+ PDF tools in your browser, processed entirely on your server - the "free PDF site" without the data leak.

1 service 2 GiB RAM from $13/mo

#what each one needs

RAM and disk are what the compose file allocates, not guesses, and the plan is the smallest one that holds it. Databases and caches come managed and included on Miget rather than billed per instance.

StackServicesRAMDiskFits plan
Actual Budget 1 256 MiB 2 GB $5/mo
BookStack 2 2 GiB 10 GB $13/mo
Buzz 4 2.8 GiB 20 GB $25/mo
Dawarich 4 3.5 GiB 32 GB $25/mo
Docmost 3 2.3 GiB 10 GB $25/mo
Fizzy 1 512 MiB 3 GB $5/mo
Karakeep 3 2 GiB 15 GB $13/mo
Linkwarden 3 2 GiB 15 GB $13/mo
Memos 1 256 MiB 2 GB $5/mo
Miniflux 2 1.1 GiB 5 GB $13/mo
Outline 3 2.3 GiB 5 GB $25/mo
Paperless-ngx 3 3.3 GiB 25 GB $25/mo
Plane 5 6.5 GiB 32 GB $49/mo
Stirling-PDF 1 2 GiB 1 GB $13/mo

Cost against the managed equivalents, per stack: Actual Budget , BookStack , Buzz , Dawarich , Docmost , Fizzy , Karakeep , Linkwarden , Miniflux , Outline , Plane , Stirling-PDF .

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140 stacks in total, from databases and queues to AI infrastructure - all MIT licensed, all runnable locally, all deployable in one step.