booting up
Own your stack.
Stop renting it.
Practical guides on self-hosted tools, open source software and private AI — written for people who'd rather control their own infrastructure than pay another SaaS bill.
$ docker compose up -d
✓ ghost_coldbootlab ... started
✓ n8n_automation ... running
✓ seafile_storage ... healthy
$ site launching
// get notified when we launch
// what we cover
Self-hosted tools
n8n, Nextcloud, Seafile, Coolify — set up properly, with the DNS and email config everyone else skips.
Private AI
Run Ollama, Open WebUI and local RAG systems on your own server. Your data never leaves.
Cut your SaaS bill
Dropbox, Notion, Zapier — what you can replace, what's worth keeping, and what it actually costs to self-host.
Automation
n8n workflows, AI agents, and the kind of automation that actually saves time rather than creating more work.
// who this is for
You're tired of paying for five tools that half-work
You want to try self-hosting but don't know where to start
You're curious about running AI locally without sending data to OpenAI
You have a VPS and aren't sure what to do with it
You want practical guides, not 40-minute YouTube videos
You'd rather own your stack than rent it indefinitely