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getumbrel / umbrel

umbrel

An elegant home server OS. Run AI agents, store your files, backup your photos, and do more with over 300 apps in the Umbrel App Store.

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0Explicit recommenders
12.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

An elegant home server OS. Run AI agents, store your files, backup your photos, and do more with over 300 apps in the Umbrel App Store.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-12-09 08:21:34 UTC to 2025-12-16 02:11:39 UTC.

0123452021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

What Hacker News says

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> It's a perfectly justifiable decision... Especially when one of the VC firms that funds your project is also the one behind formulation of the PolyForm set of licenses, I'd imagine. At least, PolyForm is better, in some sense, than fully closed source projects built atop other MIT/BSD/Apache licensed projects (say, the V8 JavaScript engine ;), and never shared. The only reason I dislike non-OSI approved licenses are, the "users" of such licenses want to have their cake and eat it too: As in, they want to project open source ethos while also denying the advantages/rights otherwise afforded by Open Source, as defined by the OSI. Imo, source-available licenses are justified only when companies using it are honest about their intentions and forthcoming about the license's limitations. Nothing specific on Umbrel, but generally, misdirection
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by firms insistent on source-available licenses as being some convenient 'middle-ground' is off-putting, to say the least! I've followed Umbrel since I first stumbled upon it in August 2020, and of course, I'd have liked them to be open-source (since I don't believe software is their core advantage, rather their brand is; but then again, what do I know): https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/issues/291#issuecomment-... That said, Umbrel already brings a lot to the table... its licensing is a predictable HN distraction from discussion on its true potential.
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