Guides & playbooks
Guides, comparisons and migration playbooks for managed open-source software. By DANIAN.
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Reselling managed BookStack in 2026
How agencies offer client wikis and docs on managed BookStack — owned content, no per-seat pricing, margin Con…
Open-source back-office stack for restaurants 2026
Five open-source tools for a restaurant back office: recipes, rotas, staff chat, bookings and subscription tra…
Open-source Stack Overflow Teams alternatives
Apache Answer and NodeBB give teams internal Q&A and discussion they own — self-hosted, managed at €9/month, n…
Open-source stack for photographers in 2026
Five open-source tools for a photography studio - photo backup, web galleries, archives, client delivery and b…
Open-source stack for research labs in 2026
Five open-source tools for a research lab — shared notebooks, data, digital collections, a protocol wiki and c…
After Scribd's unlimited cap - own your library 2026
Scribd's unlimited reading became credit-limited. Calibre-Web and Kavita serve an ebook library you own — mana…
Reselling managed Mattermost in 2026
How agencies offer client team chat on managed Mattermost - per-client workspaces, owned message history, marg…
Open-source rank tracking in 2026 (SerpBear)
SerpBear tracks keyword rankings with email alerts on data you own — the self-hosted rank-tracking slice of pr…
Open-source Asset Panda alternatives in 2026
Snipe-IT manages hardware, licenses and check-in/out for IT teams — self-hosted, managed at €9/month, no per-a…
Open-source Toggl Track alternatives in 2026
Kimai tracks time across projects and teams with exports and reports you own — managed at €9/month, no per-use…
After Skiff - self-hosted private docs in 2026
Notion acquired and sunset Skiff. CryptPad, Nextcloud and Etherpad give you private docs and drive you own - m…
Open-source Audible alternatives in 2026
Audiobookshelf streams your own audiobook and podcast library to mobile apps — for files you own, not Audible'…