Six open-source apps for a home lab — automation, DNS blocking, photo backup, monitoring, music and audiobooks. What to host yourself vs let managed run.
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Fider runs feature-request boards with voting; Loomio handles group decisions — product-feedback tools you own, managed at €9/month.
Intuit shut down Mint. Firefly III and Actual Budget track spending and budgets on data you own — no ads, no data sale. Managed at €9/month.
Memos and Meemo give you fast, private notes you own — markdown, search and cross-device access without Google. Managed at €9/month.
How agencies offer a client productivity suite on managed Nextcloud + OnlyOffice — files and real-time docs clients own, predictable wholesale margin.
Pretix runs ticketing and event registration with no per-ticket fee — a platform you own, managed at €9/month. Bring your own payment gateway.
Invoicing, ERP, receipt management, cashflow and secure client docs — six open-source tools a bookkeeping firm can own. Managed at €9/app.
Navidrome, Koel and Ampache stream your own music library anywhere — for collections you own, not Spotify’s catalog. Managed at €9/month.
Google Podcasts shut down. Castopod hosts and publishes your show; oPodSync syncs subscriptions — podcasting you own, managed at €9/month.
Verdaccio runs a private npm registry and caching proxy you own - scoped packages and faster installs, managed at EUR 9/month.
How MSPs and agencies add an uptime-monitoring line on managed Uptime Kuma — per-client status pages, flat wholesale cost, predictable margin.
Keycloak gives you SSO, OIDC, SAML and MFA on identity infrastructure you own — managed at €9/month, no per-active-user pricing.
Six open-source tools for a freelance designer — design, portfolio, contracts, invoicing, file delivery and time tracking you own. Managed at €9/app.
PocketBase and Directus give you an owned backend — database, auth, realtime API and file storage — managed at €9/month, no usage metering.
Google discontinued Jamboard. WBO and the Nextcloud whiteboard give teams a collaborative board they own — managed at €9/month.
LimeSurvey runs unlimited surveys with advanced question logic and full data ownership — managed at €9/month, no response cap or per-user fee.
How agencies offer client e-signing on managed Documenso — per-client isolation, no per-envelope metering, predictable wholesale margin.
WBO and the Nextcloud whiteboard give your team a collaborative board you own — no 3-board cap, no per-member fee, managed at €9/month.
Six open-source tools for a real-estate team — CRM, e-signature, storage, archive, drip email and viewing scheduling you own. Managed at €9/app.
Metabase, Superset and Redash deliver dashboards and BI at a flat €9/app managed — full ownership, no per-Creator-seat Tableau pricing.
