10 self-hosted repos with 225k+ ⭐ combined stars that kill $5,000+/yr in SaaS subscriptions 1. jellyfin/jellyfin (57k⭐). Netflix + Plex Pass killer. Movies, TV, music, photos on your own server, streams to every device you own. Skip $18/mo Netflix, $70 Plex Pass, and $12 Spotify Family per line. → 0:01 2. metabase/metabase (49k⭐). BI and dashboards without Tableau or Looker. Point at your database, get charts. Tableau starts at $75/user/mo, Looker is priced on request for a reason. → 0:09 3. authelia/authelia (29k⭐). SSO and 2FA gateway. Sits in front of every internal service. Auth0 free tier caps at 25k active users. Enterprise pricing is "call us". This one is $0 forever. → 0:20 4. overleaf/overleaf (18k⭐). Full Overleaf collaborative LaTeX editor, on your own server. Overleaf Pro is $190/yr per user. Deploy this once, everyone in your lab uses it free. → 0:30 5. duplicati/duplicati (15k⭐). Encrypted backups to S3, B2, Dropbox, Google Drive, SFTP. AES-256 before it leaves your machine. Kills the $99/yr per computer Backblaze Personal plan. → 0:37 6. amir20/dozzle (14k⭐). Live logs for every Docker container in the browser, 7 MB container. Datadog logs starts cheap and ends up thousands per month. This one costs zero. → 0:45 7. openreplay/openreplay (13k⭐). Full session replay, heatmaps, and error tracking. Self-hosted so no PII ever leaves your infra. Hotjar Business is $99+/mo, LogRocket $99+/mo, FullStory quotes only. → 0:53 8. TwiN/gatus (12k⭐). Uptime + status page + alerts to Slack, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty. by Atlassian starts at $29/mo per page. BetterUptime same tier. This one is a single Go binary. → 1:02 9. getlago/lago (10k⭐). Usage-based billing infrastructure. Meters events, applies pricing, sends invoices, collects payments. Chargebee gets to $599/mo fast. Stripe Billing takes a cut of every dollar. → 1:10 10. gtsteffaniak/filebrowser (8k⭐). Google Drive replacement with OIDC, LDAP, JWT, and 2FA. Runs on your own box. Google Workspace is $12+/user/mo, Dropbox Business $15+/user/mo. → 1:18 Save this before you renew one more SaaS this list already replaces 👇