Self-host Local AI Assistant with Jan and Pinggy

Thu, Jun 19, 2025
Running your own AI assistant locally means keeping full control over your conversations and data while avoiding subscription fees and usage limits. Jan is an open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs entirely on your computer, powered by the robust Cortex inference engine. You can also connect to cloud models from providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google for additional capabilities. With Pinggy, you can share your Jan instance online for team collaboration or remote access.

Top 5 Best Self-Hosted VPNs in 2026

Tue, Nov 25, 2025
Self-hosted VPNs have steadily become a practical option for anyone who wants more control over their network. Instead of depending on commercial VPN providers - with their opaque logging policies and unpredictable performance - running your own setup gives you full ownership of your data and traffic. Whether you’re connecting back to your home network while traveling, accessing personal servers, managing smart devices securely, or just preferring infrastructure you control end-to-end, a self-hosted VPN removes a lot of the guesswork.

Self-Hosting a Note-Taking Application with Memos and Pinggy

Wed, Dec 31, 2025
Cloud-based note-taking apps are convenient, but they come with trade-offs: recurring subscription fees, privacy concerns, and vendor lock-in. What if you could have a powerful, modern note-taking experience while keeping complete control of your data? That’s exactly what Memos offers an open-source, self-hosted note-taking service that puts privacy first. In this guide, we’ll walk through setting up Memos using Docker and then use Pinggy to make it accessible from anywhere on the internet.

Self-Hosted Cloud Storage, Calendar and Contacts with OxiCloud

Wed, Mar 11, 2026
Cloud storage, calendar synchronization, and contact management are three of the most personal categories of data you can have. Every time you sync your photos to Google Drive, schedule an event in Google Calendar, or store a contact in iCloud, that data flows through servers you don’t control, under privacy policies that can change overnight. For developers and privacy-conscious users alike, this is an uncomfortable trade-off that has long felt unavoidable until now.

Self-Host Open Notebook: Run Your Own Private NotebookLM Alternative

Sat, Jun 6, 2026
Google’s NotebookLM is genuinely useful. Feed it a pile of PDFs, research papers, or meeting transcripts and it produces surprisingly good summaries, answers questions with citations, and - its most viral feature - generates a podcast-style audio discussion of your material. A lot of researchers and indie hackers I know use it daily. The friction is the obvious one: your documents go to Google. That’s fine for public papers, but uncomfortable for anything proprietary - client work, unpublished research, internal strategy docs, personal notes.