Own Your Stack

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

The Linux kernel runs everything from supercomputers and cloud servers to phones and embedded hardware. It is the foundational layer of digital sovereignty—free to study, modify, and run forever.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

Debian is one of the oldest and most trusted Linux distributions, governed democratically by its developers. It is the rock-solid base for Ubuntu and thousands of derivatives.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

Proxmox Virtual Environment lets you run your own private cloud on your own hardware, combining KVM virtual machines and LXC containers with clustering and backups—no licensing fees.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

Docker standardized how software is built, shipped, and run in isolated containers. Its open-source engine underpins modern self-hosting and cloud-native deployment.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

Kubernetes automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is the de facto standard for running resilient infrastructure you control.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

OPNsense is a powerful FreeBSD-based firewall and router with VPN, intrusion detection, and traffic shaping—giving you full control over your network edge.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

TrueNAS turns commodity hardware into a robust network-attached storage server with snapshots, replication, and data integrity—own your data at home or in the field.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

NixOS defines your entire system as code, enabling reproducible, atomic, and rollback-safe deployments—ideal for resilient, auditable infrastructure.

AI & Machine Learning

Ollama is the simplest way to download and run open LLMs like Llama, Mistral, Gemma, and DeepSeek on your own machine—private, offline, and free of API costs.

AI & Machine Learning

Open WebUI gives you a polished chat interface for Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API, with built-in RAG, document chat, and multi-user workspaces—your own private AI portal.

AI & Machine Learning

llama.cpp made it possible to run large language models efficiently on laptops, phones, and Raspberry Pis. It is the engine behind much of the local-AI revolution.

AI & Machine Learning

vLLM delivers high-throughput, memory-efficient inference for self-hosting LLMs at scale, with continuous batching and OpenAI-compatible APIs.

AI & Machine Learning

PyTorch powers most modern AI research and production, offering flexible tensors, autograd, and GPU acceleration. It is the foundation that open models are built on.

AI & Machine Learning

The Transformers library gives you unified access to tens of thousands of pretrained open models. It is the connective tissue of the open AI ecosystem.

AI & Machine Learning

LangChain provides composable building blocks for chains, agents, retrieval, and tool use—helping developers ship AI applications on open or closed models.

AI & Machine Learning

ComfyUI offers a powerful, modular graph workflow for running open image and video models locally—total control over generative pipelines on your own GPU.

AI & Machine Learning

OpenAI's Whisper is an open-weight automatic speech recognition model supporting dozens of languages, runnable entirely offline for private transcription.

AI & Machine Learning

n8n is a fair-code automation platform—a self-hosted Zapier alternative—that connects 400+ apps and builds autonomous AI agent workflows you fully own.

AI & Machine Learning

Dify provides a visual, drag-and-drop studio for building LLM apps and agents with RAG, supporting 100+ model providers—self-host the whole pipeline.

AI & Machine Learning

LocalAI is a free, self-hosted replacement for the OpenAI API, running LLMs, image, and audio models on consumer hardware—no cloud, no data leakage.

Hugging Face Models

The Llama models are among the most widely used and fine-tuned open-weight language models, available in many sizes for chat, coding, and reasoning on your own hardware.

Hugging Face Models

Mistral's open models deliver outstanding performance per parameter, with permissive Apache-2.0 licensing that makes them ideal for commercial, self-hosted deployment.

Hugging Face Models

The Qwen series spans dense and Mixture-of-Experts models with strong reasoning, vision, and multilingual support—often released under permissive Apache-2.0 terms.

Hugging Face Models

DeepSeek's Mixture-of-Experts models rival proprietary frontier systems on math, reasoning, and code while remaining openly licensed and self-hostable.

Hugging Face Models

Gemma is a family of efficient open-weight models tuned to run well on laptops and single GPUs, a leading Western option for private local AI.

Hugging Face Models

Stable Diffusion brought high-quality text-to-image generation to everyone's hardware, spawning a vast open ecosystem of fine-tunes and creative tools.

Hugging Face Models

The Datasets library and Hub host hundreds of thousands of open datasets, making reproducible, transparent AI development possible for everyone.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Nextcloud is the flagship all-in-one platform for file sync, calendars, contacts, collaborative docs, and chat—the cornerstone of a sovereign digital workplace.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Immich offers automatic mobile backup, facial recognition, and object search for your entire photo library—on your own server, with no surveillance.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Jellyfin streams your personal media library to any device with no fees, tracking, or lock-in—a fully open alternative to Plex and streaming subscriptions.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Home Assistant unifies thousands of smart devices under local control, working offline without the cloud—essential for sovereign, resilient homes.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Mastodon powers the federated social web (ActivityPub), letting communities run their own servers free from corporate algorithms and advertising.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Matrix is an open standard for secure, federated messaging and calls. Self-host Synapse with the Element client for a sovereign Slack/Discord alternative.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Vaultwarden runs a full Bitwarden-compatible server on minimal hardware, so you keep your passwords and secrets entirely under your own control.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Paperless-ngx scans, OCRs, tags, and indexes your documents into a private, searchable archive—escape filing cabinets and cloud document silos.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Forgejo is a lightweight, self-hostable platform for Git repositories, issues, and pull requests—a sovereign alternative to GitHub built by a nonprofit community.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Jitsi Meet provides secure, encrypted video meetings with no account required, self-hostable for full privacy—a sovereign Zoom replacement.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

AppFlowy is a privacy-first workspace for notes, docs, wikis, and project management that you can run locally or self-host—your knowledge, your data.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Mattermost delivers secure messaging, file sharing, and integrations for teams that need to keep collaboration data on their own infrastructure.

Developer Tools

VSCodium is the community build of Microsoft's editor without proprietary branding or telemetry—the same powerful IDE, fully open and private.

Developer Tools

Git is the universal tool for tracking code history and collaborating, created by Linus Torvalds. Decentralized by design, it keeps your work in your hands.

Developer Tools

PostgreSQL is a powerful, reliable relational database with decades of engineering behind it—the trusted foundation for sovereign, self-hosted applications.

Developer Tools

Next.js powers fast, modern, full-stack web applications with server rendering and routing—the framework behind countless production sites.

Developer Tools

React is the most widely used front-end library for building interactive UIs with reusable components—the backbone of the modern web.

Developer Tools

Tailwind CSS lets you style applications quickly with composable utility classes, producing clean, maintainable, and consistent designs.

Developer Tools

Node.js runs JavaScript on the server, enabling fast, scalable network applications and the vast npm ecosystem that powers modern development.

Developer Tools

Rust delivers memory safety without a garbage collector, making it ideal for secure, high-performance systems—increasingly the language of sovereign infrastructure.

Developer Tools

Supabase provides a self-hostable backend with database, auth, storage, and realtime APIs—ship apps fast without surrendering your data to a proprietary cloud.

Governance & Civic Tech

Decidim is a comprehensive open-source framework for participatory budgeting, proposals, assemblies, and voting—used by governments worldwide to empower citizens.

Governance & Civic Tech

Loomio helps groups discuss, decide, and act together online, with structured proposals and consent-based voting—ideal for cooperatives and councils.

Governance & Civic Tech

Polis gathers and clusters open-ended public input at scale, surfacing consensus and division—used in real legislative processes to bridge divides.

Governance & Civic Tech

CKAN powers open data portals for governments and institutions worldwide, making public datasets discoverable, accessible, and transparent.

Governance & Civic Tech

Consul Democracy enables debates, proposals, participatory budgeting, and voting at municipal scale—one of the most adopted civic engagement platforms.

Governance & Civic Tech

OpenProject offers roadmaps, Gantt charts, agile boards, and time tracking on your own server—transparent coordination for teams and communities.

Productivity & Office

LibreOffice is the leading open-source office suite—writer, calc, impress, and more—fully compatible with common formats and free of subscriptions.

Productivity & Office

ONLYOFFICE Docs provides collaborative editing of documents, sheets, and slides with excellent OOXML fidelity—self-host it for a private Office 365 alternative.

Productivity & Office

Joplin stores your notes in open Markdown with end-to-end encryption and flexible sync—a private, portable alternative to Evernote and OneNote.

Productivity & Office

Logseq is a local-first tool for thought—linked notes, daily journals, and graph-based knowledge—storing everything as plain files you own.

Productivity & Office

Thunderbird is Mozilla's open-source email client with calendars, contacts, and encryption support—independent communication on your terms.

Creative & Design

Blender is a full 3D pipeline—modeling, sculpting, animation, simulation, rendering, and video editing—rivaling tools costing thousands, owned by no corporation.

Creative & Design

GIMP is a mature, full-featured raster graphics editor for photo retouching, image composition, and design—a free alternative to Photoshop.

Creative & Design

Krita is a powerful, free painting and illustration app built by and for artists, with brush engines and animation tools loved by digital creators.

Creative & Design

Inkscape is a full-featured SVG vector editor for illustrations, logos, and diagrams—a free, open alternative to Illustrator.

Creative & Design

Audacity is the classic multi-track audio editor for recording, mixing, and mastering sound—accessible to podcasters, musicians, and field recordists.

Creative & Design

OBS Studio is the industry-standard open tool for recording and broadcasting video, used by creators and educators worldwide—no subscriptions, no watermarks.

Creative & Design

Kdenlive is a full-featured non-linear video editor with multi-track timelines and effects—professional editing free from licensing costs.

Open Hardware

KiCad is a complete open-source toolset for schematic capture and PCB layout, enabling anyone to design custom circuit boards—the foundation of open hardware.

Open Hardware

Arduino's open hardware and software made microcontroller programming accessible to everyone, powering countless DIY and educational projects.

Open Hardware

ESPHome turns inexpensive ESP microcontrollers into powerful, locally controlled smart devices that integrate seamlessly with Home Assistant—no cloud required.

Open Hardware

Marlin powers millions of 3D printers and CNC machines, an open foundation that put digital fabrication in homes, workshops, and villages.

Open Hardware

FreeCAD is a full parametric CAD tool for mechanical design, architecture, and product development—design real parts and structures without proprietary lock-in.

Open Hardware

RISC-V is a free and open ISA enabling royalty-free processor design, breaking the proprietary grip on chip architecture—true sovereignty at the silicon level.

Open Hardware

Open Source Ecology develops the Global Village Construction Set—open designs for tractors, presses, and tools that let communities build their own infrastructure.

Open Hardware

OpenSCAD creates precise 3D models from code, making parametric, version-controllable hardware design possible for engineers and makers.

Security & Privacy

Signal provides end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls with a nonprofit, open-source model—trusted by security experts as the benchmark for private communication.

Security & Privacy

Tor routes traffic through volunteer relays to defend against surveillance and censorship—vital infrastructure for privacy, journalism, and dissent.

Security & Privacy

WireGuard is a lean, high-performance VPN protocol now built into the Linux kernel, making private, self-hosted networking simple and secure.

Security & Privacy

Pi-hole acts as a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers across every device on your network—reclaim your bandwidth and privacy at home.

Security & Privacy

Bitwarden secures your credentials with open, audited encryption and apps for every platform—self-host the server for complete control of your secrets.

Security & Privacy

GnuPG (GPG) provides encryption and digital signatures for files and email, a cornerstone of free, verifiable, sovereign cryptography for decades.

Security & Privacy

Headscale is an open implementation of the Tailscale coordination server, letting you build a private, zero-config mesh network entirely under your control.

Mesh Networking & Communications

Meshtastic builds long-range, solar-capable mesh networks using inexpensive LoRa radios—communication that works with no internet, cell towers, or infrastructure.

Mesh Networking & Communications

Reticulum enables secure, self-configuring networks over any medium—radio, LoRa, or wire—with no central authority, built for true communication sovereignty.

Mesh Networking & Communications

Briar syncs messages directly between devices over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Tor—resilient communication designed for activists and emergencies without infrastructure.

Mesh Networking & Communications

Element is the flagship Matrix client offering encrypted chat, voice, and video across federated servers—a sovereign alternative to centralized messengers.

Maps & Geospatial

OpenStreetMap is a community-built geographic database powering maps everywhere—free of corporate gatekeeping and usable for any project.

Maps & Geospatial

QGIS is a full-featured desktop GIS for mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization—used by planners, scientists, and communities to understand their land.

Maps & Geospatial

Leaflet makes it easy to add fast, mobile-friendly interactive maps to any website using open map data—no proprietary API keys required.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Plausible is a lightweight, self-hostable analytics tool that respects visitor privacy—a simple, ethical alternative to Google Analytics.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

FreshRSS lets you follow news and blogs on your own terms, free from algorithmic feeds—own your information diet with a private, fast reader.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

PeerTube lets you host and share videos on a federated network without ads or surveillance—a sovereign alternative to YouTube built on ActivityPub.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

Grafana turns metrics and logs into beautiful, actionable dashboards, the standard for monitoring self-hosted infrastructure and IoT systems.

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

Caddy is a modern, easy-to-configure web server that provisions TLS certificates automatically—ideal for securely self-hosting your own services.

Self-Hosted & Sovereignty

Coolify lets you deploy apps, databases, and services on your own servers with a friendly UI—host your projects without surrendering to a cloud platform.

Productivity & Office

Stirling PDF performs merging, splitting, OCR, conversion, and editing of PDFs entirely on your own server—private document workflows with no uploads to third parties.