The things you're made to rent — document editors, media servers, fleet-management platforms — should be owned outright, not billed monthly forever. Every project is a single self-contained program you run yourself: your data lives on your machine, encrypted at rest, unlocked by a key you already hold. No accounts, no cloud, no subscription, nothing phoning home.
Hespera
hespera.alexander4.ioA local app for your music, TV, and movies, with automatic metadata matching. A single Go binary that runs entirely on your machine — SQLite storage, no accounts, no external services required. AGPLv3
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Nib
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Vigo
vigo.alexander4.ioA distributed state enforcement engine. One server and one binary agent declaratively converge fleets of machines to a desired state across seven operating systems — self-hosted, with nothing phoning home. Proprietary
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Wedge
wedge.alexander4.ioA proof of concept for SSH-public-key web authentication. Log in to a website by signing a challenge with the SSH key you already have — no password at all. A single self-hosted Python server, with a live demo of every SDK. MIT
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Zoetrope
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