Self-Hosted

Paperclip.ai is a self-hosted AI project management platform. It gives you a Linear-style issue tracker where AI agents can actually pick up tasks, reason through them, and take action — all running on your own infrastructure. No cloud dependency, no data leaving your environment. For a homelab running a SOC stack, threat intelligence pipelines, and a growing collection of automation projects, having an AI agent that can work through a backlog is genuinely useful. ...

There’s a certain appeal to running your own language model. No API costs, no data leaving your network, no rate limits, no terms of service to worry about when you feed it sensitive context. For anyone who works in security — or just values privacy — the idea of keeping inference local is worth the setup cost. ...

Every major cloud provider has an AI product now. Most of them are genuinely useful. They’re also asking you to send your data — your queries, your context, your documents — to infrastructure you don’t control, operated by a company whose incentives around data retention may not align with yours. ...

If you run self-hosted services at home, you’ve probably hit the remote access problem at some point. You want to reach something — a dashboard, a tool, an API — from outside your home network. The path of least resistance is to open a port on your router and point it at the service. It works. It also quietly puts that service on the internet, discoverable by anyone running a scanner. ...