sysadminsmedia/homebox

A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home User

Productivity & self-hostedGo#inventory#selfhosted#hacktoberfest#homebox

1.2 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

HomeBox is a self-hosted home inventory and organization system: catalog items by category, location and tags, with photos, documents, warranties and purchase history. Written in Go with SQLite and an embedded web UI, it runs in a single Docker container.

Useful for

Deploy HomeBox in Docker to track household items and where they are stored
Upload photos and receipts to track warranties and maintenance dates for appliances
Search the inventory via the web UI to quickly find an item or its document

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

5 stars so far today, about 6 expected by the end of the day.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 7,329
Stars in a day: 6
Forks: 557
Issues and pull requests: 1,275
Watchers: 31
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
Latest release: v0.26.2 · June 14, 2026
Created: June 17, 2024
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #18, +50 stars
September 15, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #18, +76 stars

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