SelfStack: install-verified self-hosted app catalog

Know which self-hosted app installs cleanly before you waste an afternoon on it

Problem

The most time-consuming part of self-hosting is trial and error: you pull up a Docker Compose stack only to hit port conflicts, missing env vars or incompatible versions, and half a day is gone. Most docs describe features but not whether something actually installs on your distro, architecture and runtime versions.

Solution

An install-verification dataset and search site organized by app: each entry records real-world install results, failure causes, required system dependencies and passing version combinations, filterable by distro, CPU architecture and container runtime. Users submit their own verification records and the community fills the gaps.

Users

Self-hosting hobbyists running NAS and VPS at home or in small teams, plus developers maintaining self-hosted product docs

MVP

Cover 50 popular self-hosted apps with verification records; filter by distro, architecture and runtime; each record includes failure cause and fix steps; a simple submission form; export as a static JSON dataset

Revenue

Dataset free under CC BY; Pro subscription for batch query API, private deployments and change alerts; embedded 'verified' badge partnership for self-hosted vendors

Why now

Self-hosted app count is exploding while install-success information is scattered across forums and issue threads; existing teams already publish install-verification datasets, proving demand and making a lightweight site plus community submissions viable