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Your homelab is growing. You’ve got Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Pi-hole, maybe a dozen more services scattered across different ports. Bookmarks aren’t cutting it anymore. You need a dashboard — but not one that requires hand-editing YAML files every time you add a service. Homarr is a modern, highly customizable dashboard for your self-hosted services. Its killer feature: everything is configured through a drag-and-drop web UI. No config files, no YAML, no restarts. Add apps, rearrange widgets, configure integrations — all from your browser. ...

If you’ve outgrown basic recipe apps and want serious meal planning, Tandoor Recipes is the self-hosted answer. It’s a full-featured recipe manager built for people who actually cook — with meal plans, shopping lists, nutritional data, ingredient management, and multi-user support. Where simpler tools like Mealie focus on quick recipe imports, Tandoor goes deeper with food databases, unit conversions, cookbooks, and a recipe editor that handles complex dishes with multiple steps. ...

Bookmarks are broken. Browser bookmark folders turn into graveyards. Links rot. Pages disappear. You save something important and never find it again. Linkwarden fixes this by saving the actual content — not just the URL. It archives full pages, tags them with AI, and makes everything searchable. If the original page goes down, you still have it. Why Linkwarden? Full-page archiving — saves a copy of every page, not just the URL AI-powered tagging — automatically categorizes your bookmarks Full-text search — find anything by searching the page content Collections — organize bookmarks into shareable folders Collaboration — share collections with teams or family Browser extension — save links with one click PDF and screenshot capture — preserves pages in multiple formats RSS feed support — import from feeds automatically Prerequisites Docker and Docker Compose 1GB+ RAM (AI features use more) PostgreSQL (included in the compose file) Docker Setup mkdir -p ~/linkwarden && cd ~/linkwarden # docker-compose.yml version: "3.8" services: linkwarden: image: ghcr.io/linkwarden/linkwarden:latest container_name: linkwarden restart: unless-stopped ports: - "3000:3000" volumes: - linkwarden_data:/data/data environment: DATABASE_URL: postgresql://linkwarden:changeme_password@db:5432/linkwarden NEXTAUTH_SECRET: changeme_long_random_string NEXTAUTH_URL: http://localhost:3000 NEXT_PUBLIC_DISABLE_REGISTRATION: "false" ARCHIVING_ENABLED: "true" BROWSER_TIMEOUT: 15000 depends_on: - db db: image: postgres:16 container_name: linkwarden-db restart: unless-stopped volumes: - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data environment: POSTGRES_USER: linkwarden POSTGRES_PASSWORD: changeme_password POSTGRES_DB: linkwarden volumes: linkwarden_data: pgdata: Generate proper secrets: ...

Recipes are scattered everywhere. Bookmarked tabs, screenshot folders, handwritten cards, that one blog post buried under 2,000 words of life story. You just want the ingredients and steps. Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager that pulls recipes from any URL, strips out the fluff, and stores them in a clean, searchable format. It also handles meal planning and shopping lists. What Mealie Does Import recipes from any URL — paste a link, Mealie scrapes the recipe automatically Meal planning — drag and drop recipes into a weekly calendar Shopping lists — auto-generated from your meal plan Household sharing — multiple users, shared cookbooks Nutritional info — automatic calculation from ingredients Mobile-friendly — works great on a phone or tablet in the kitchen API-first — everything is accessible via REST API Docker Setup mkdir -p ~/mealie && cd ~/mealie # docker-compose.yml version: "3.8" services: mealie: image: ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:latest container_name: mealie restart: unless-stopped ports: - "9925:9000" volumes: - mealie_data:/app/data environment: ALLOW_SIGNUP: "true" PUID: 1000 PGID: 1000 TZ: America/New_York MAX_WORKERS: 1 WEB_CONCURRENCY: 1 BASE_URL: http://192.168.1.100:9925 volumes: mealie_data: docker compose up -d Visit http://your-server:9925. The default credentials are: ...

Every household drowns in paper. Tax documents, medical records, receipts, warranties, letters — they pile up in drawers and filing cabinets until you need one and can’t find it. Paperless-ngx fixes this permanently. Scan or photograph a document, drop it in a folder, and Paperless automatically OCRs it, extracts the text, tags it, and makes it searchable. Finding any document takes seconds instead of minutes. Why Paperless-ngx? Full-text search across every document you’ve ever scanned Automatic OCR — extracts text from scanned images and PDFs Smart tagging — learns your patterns and auto-categorizes Correspondent detection — knows who sent what Multiple file formats — PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, even Office documents Mobile-friendly web UI for access anywhere on your network Prerequisites Docker and Docker Compose installed At least 2GB RAM (OCR is memory-hungry) Storage space for your documents (plan ~5MB per page average) Docker Compose Setup Create a directory and compose file: ...

Once you’re running more than a handful of services, you need a single place to see everything. What’s running? What’s the status? Where’s the link again? Homepage is a modern, fast, self-hosted dashboard that gives you a clean overview of your entire homelab. It pulls live stats from your services, shows system info, and organizes all your bookmarks in one place. Why Homepage Over Other Dashboards? There are several self-hosted dashboards — Dashy, Homarr, Heimdall, Organizr. Homepage stands out for: ...