Umbrel
Self-hosting Solutions
A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting. Install on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Ubuntu/Debian.
Actively maintained
⊘ Proprietary
Browser-based, graphical Operating System (OS) that makes running a personal server as easy as running a personal computer.
StartOS is an open-source self-hosting solutions project, with 2.0k GitHub stars and a health score of 89/100. It committed 877 times in the last twelve months across 7 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: MIT. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-15 |
| Days since last commit | 2 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 497 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 877 |
| Months with activity | 7 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-07-27 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MIT |
| Category | Self-hosting Solutions |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
StartOS is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.
Actively maintained. StartOS recorded 877 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 7 of those months and 497 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-07-27. Committed within the last 45 days.
StartOS is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
27 open-source implementations, 8 of them actively maintained, led by Umbrel at 12k stars. Saturation score 37/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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