selfhostkit.dev · about
Who builds this
I'm Paul. I run everything I use on my own servers, and selfhostkit is where I ship the small tools I kept googling and never found in a form I liked. No ad-walls, no tracking, no login. Just the thing you came for.
What I actually do
By day I run Ankaa Services, a one-person digital shop for small companies. Think of it as a digital project lead you don't have to hire full-time: websites, SEO, automation, and increasingly AI agents wired into the tools a business already uses. One person, accountable, no agency overhead. If that's a thing you need, that's over here → ankaa-services.com.
I come at it from the tech side. I've been coding since I was a kid, trained as a developer, then spent years on the operational reality of small structures before going independent. So I read the config file and the P&L, which turns out to be the useful combination.
I self-host all of it
This isn't theory. My file cloud (Nextcloud), my automations (n8n), a handful of client sites, and a small fleet of AI agents all run on a modest VPS I manage myself, behind a reverse proxy, in Docker, with backups I actually test. selfhostkit runs on that same box, which feels right for a site about self-hosting.
That's also why the tools here are opinionated. Every one solves a thing I hit for real:
a compose file that wouldn't parse, a docker run I needed as a service, a reverse
proxy I didn't want to hand-write for the hundredth time, a model I wasn't sure would fit in VRAM.
I build the version I want to use, then leave it here for you.
How it works
- Free, and staying that way. The tools run in your browser. Nothing you paste leaves your machine.
- Open source. The logic behind each tool lives on GitHub, so you can read it, fork it, or pipe it into your own scripts.
- Honest monetization. If a guide recommends a VPS and you rent it through my link, I might earn a little. I only point at hosts I actually run on. That's the whole model, no popups.
Say hi
Found a bug, want a tool that doesn't exist yet, or just want to argue about Caddy versus Traefik? Open an issue on GitHub, or reach me through Ankaa Services. More tools, and more self-hosted AI, are landing here.