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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Oct 2, 2024

Starting business without breaking the bank: Self hosted OSS productivity ecosystem

Den Prysukhin

Tired of draining your startup's budget on per-user SaaS fees? Reclaim your data sovereignty. Learn to architect a self-hosted open-source productivity stack for under 80 dollars a month.

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#1 about 3 min

Introducing the self-hosted open source ecosystem

Why starting businesses need cost-effective open source alternatives to expensive proprietary toolkits.

#2 about 4 min

Identifying essential software categories for business operations

The foundational software categories required to run a business efficiently.

#3 about 4 min

Calculating the cost of proprietary software subscriptions

How software-as-a-service pricing scales as businesses grow and require more tools.

#4 about 3 min

Choosing self-hosted infrastructure for privacy and control

Why a client chose to self-host their entire toolchain to maintain data security and ownership.

#5 about 3 min

Selecting open source tools for communication and documentation

Evaluating open source choices like Wiki.js and NocoDB for knowledge bases and database management.

#6 about 1 min

Adopting open source frameworks for customer relationship management

Using ERPNext to handle business operations and provide a foundation for custom plugins.

#7 about 5 min

Managing large-scale file storage and synchronization internally

Leveraging Seafile for fast and reliable synchronization of massive project files.

#8 about 2 min

Organizing task tracking and project management workflows

Implementing Wekan for Kanban boards, OpenProject for waterfall management, and Kimai for time tracking.

#9 about 3 min

Deploying self-hosted source code management and continuous integration

Choosing lightweight tools like Gitea and Drone CI over resource-heavy alternatives.

#10 about 5 min

Centralizing access with open source identity management providers

Integrating multiple self-hosted tools into a unified ecosystem using identity management solutions like Zitadel and Authentik.

#11 about 2 min

Securing team credentials using self-hosted password managers

Replacing proprietary password vaults with Vaultwarden to securely share credentials across teams.

#12 about 6 min

Architecting docker deployments with reverse proxies and offsite backups

Deploying containerized environments via Ansible on bare metal servers using Traefik and Backblaze.

#13 about 3 min

Implementing secure network tunnels on managed cloud infrastructure

Using Cloudflare Zero Trust to safely expose internal applications hosted on DigitalOcean.

#14 about 2 min

Evaluating the labor costs of self-hosted open source solutions

Balancing the savings of open source software against the hidden costs of maintenance and operational labor.

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Questions on open-source vision and developer autonomy

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Shifting towards digital sovereignty and open source infrastructure

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Replacing commercial AI APIs with self-hosted open source models

Cedric Clyburn Cedric Clyburn +1 · WWC 2025

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Fueling major tech companies and the open source ecosystem

David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson +1 · Coffee With Developers

2:39 min

Discussing open-source possibilities and identifying viable team sizes

Dubravko Dolic +1 · WWC 2021

9:59 min

Evaluating platform adoption and orchestration complexity for teams

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