I built my own GitHub Gists alternative — self-hosted, bilingual, and it has an Insights dashboard

Description and use

Built a self-hosted GitHub Gists alternative with bilingual UI, insights dashboard, and Docker deployment.

Problem

GitHub Gists lack Bulgarian UI, cannot be self-hosted, lack tags, stats, and custom visibility controls.

Outcome

gistly provides a lightweight, self-hosted alternative to GitHub Gists with multilingual UI, advanced features, and simple Docker deployment.

Workflow

• Clone gistly repository
• Create .env with ADMIN_PASSWORD and AUTH_SECRET
• Run ./deploy.sh to build and start Docker container
• Access app on port 3000
• Use reverse proxy for HTTPS

Evidence

Everything lives on your server in a single SQLite file.

Source

The whole "cluster" is one file you can docker cp out the door as a backup

Source

The app is on port 3000, your data survives rebuilds in the gistly_data volume

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