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Blog posts tagged “Open Source”


Cloud in a Bottle Wants Self-Hosting to Feel Like Using a Smartphone

Cloud in a Bottle Self-Hosted Open Source

Imbue's new open-source personal cloud platform packages containerized self-hosted apps behind one login and one router. It's a genuinely different take on self-hosting, but its own docs admit the networking story isn't solved yet - here's the gap and how to close it today.

Self-Host Hermes Agent for Free with OpenRouter's Free Models

Hermes Agent AI Agents Self-Hosted AI

How to install Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent on your own machine and run it at zero token cost on OpenRouter free models - the tool-calling and 64K context requirements, the request limits that actually bite, a free-model fallback chain, and remote access over a tunnel.

AI Crawlers Now Cost More CPU Than All Your Real Traffic Combined

AI Crawlers Self-Hosted Open Source

git.kernel.org now spends more CPU rendering pages for AI training scrapers than on every git clone and legitimate visit combined. Here's what the numbers say, why proof-of-work challenges like Anubis are winning and losing at the same time, and what it means for anyone running their own infrastructure.

Open-Source Calendly Alternatives You Can Self-Host in 2026

Scheduling Self-Hosted Open Source

Cal.com went closed source in April 2026. Here are the open-source, self-hostable Calendly alternatives that took its place - Cal.diy, Easy!Appointments, Tymeslot, Rallly and more - with licenses, versions, and a tested Docker plus Pinggy setup.

Self-Host OmniRoute: A Free AI Gateway for 500+ Models and 290+ Providers

OmniRoute AI Gateway Self-Hosted AI

OmniRoute is a free MIT-licensed AI gateway you run yourself: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of 290+ providers and 500+ models. We ran v3.8.48 in Docker, got 99 models resolving with zero configuration, tested combos, compression, MCP, and the CLI, then shared the whole thing over a public HTTPS URL with Pinggy.

Best Open Source Self-Hosted Alternatives to Slack and Discord in 2026

Self-Hosted Open Source Pinggy

Compare the best open source, self-hostable alternatives to Slack and Discord in 2026 - Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, Zulip, Matrix/Element, Stoat, and Spacebar - with licenses, system requirements, and how to expose your instance with Pinggy.