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SaaS is dead.
Long live self-hosting.

Companies rent you software for hundreds of dollars a month. Meanwhile, communities of developers have rebuilt those same tools — and give them away for free. The only catch: they run on your computer instead of someone else's cloud. That used to be the hard part. Now an AI assistant does the whole setup for you — you just copy one short text and paste it in.

Browse the toolsHow does this work?
$300+/mowhat a small team easily spends on these subscriptions
$0what the tools on this site cost. Forever.
~10mintypical setup time, with Claude doing the work for you

how it works

Three steps. No coding. Seriously.

  1. 1

    Pick the tool you need

    Browse the list below. Every tool does the same job as a paid subscription you probably know — CRM, video hosting, HR, live streaming.

  2. 2

    Copy the magic instruction text

    Each tool comes with a short, ready-made text containing everything needed to set it up. You don't need to read it. Just copy it.

  3. 3

    Paste it into Claude

    Open Claude (or Claude Code), paste the text, and answer a few simple questions. It installs everything on your machine. That's it.

the directory

The hit list

ERPNext

CRM / ERP

One free system that runs your whole company — customers, invoices, stock, projects

replacesSalesforce, HubSpot

Frappe HR

HR

Vacation requests, payslips and employee records — without the per-employee bill

replacesFactorial

Owncast

Live Streaming

Your own Twitch-style live streaming channel that nobody can demonetize or ban

replacesTwitch, StreamYard

PeerTube

Video Hosting

Your own private YouTube — upload, share and stream videos with zero monthly fees

replacesVimeo, Wistia

Restreamer

Live Streaming

Go live on YouTube, Twitch and more at the same time — without the monthly fee

replacesRestream.io

Twenty

CRM

A customer tracker (CRM) your whole team will actually like using

replacesSalesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive

questions, answered

"Wait, is this for real?"

Is this legal?

Completely. These tools are open source — their creators publish the code publicly and explicitly allow anyone to use it, for free, forever. Many of these projects are backed by real companies that make money selling optional hosting or support. You're using the software exactly as intended.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. That's the whole point of this site. Each tool has a ready-made instruction text. You copy it, paste it into Claude, and Claude does the technical work — installing, configuring, starting the tool — while explaining what it's doing. If you can copy and paste, you can do this.

What does "hosting on my own machine" actually mean?

Normally, software like Salesforce runs on the company's servers and you rent access to it. "Self-hosting" means the software runs on a computer you control instead — your own computer, or a small server you rent for a few dollars a month. The upside: no subscription, no usage limits, and your data never leaves your hands.

What if something breaks?

Ask Claude — paste the error message and it will usually fix it. Beyond that, every tool here has documentation, community forums, and GitHub issue trackers full of people who hit the same problem before you. These are mature projects used by thousands of organizations in production.

Why would anyone give this away for free?

Different reasons: some projects are community-driven idealism, some are companies that sell hosting and support around their free product. Either way, open source has quietly rebuilt most of the software industry — this site just puts the good stuff in one place.