Hi!
2025 was a big year for my open source goals and I wanted to share some accomplishments with you, after all I wouldn’t have gotten so far with any of my projects if it wasn’t for the few selfhosted communities I interact with daily <3
Thank you for all your support and here’s a summary of everything I’ve built/maintained throughout 2025. Everything is free, self-hostable and entirely open source.
p.s. - no, these are NOT vibe coded.
jotty.page - 1.3k stars - 78.3K total downloads
repo: https://github.com/fccview/jotty
Jotty is a lightweight note taking/checklist app with a ton of features packed in a very minimal easy to use UI, it features two types of encryptions, drawio/excalidraw/mermaid diagrams, tons of language syntax highlighting for codeblocks, kanban boards and a lot more.
Cr*nmaster - 903 stars - 103K total downloads
repo: https://github.com/fccview/cronmaster
Crnmaster is a UI to manage cronjobs and easily create and schedule scripts, it allows you to log cronjobs (including live logging)*
Scatola Magica (beta) - 108 stars - 2.47K total downloads
repo: https://github.com/fccview/scatola-magica
Scatola Magica is a file upload/download system which allows you to upload files in chunk for maximum speed. The cool feature about it is that you can drop a file literally anywhere, from anywhere, including copy/pasting into the page, if you paste text it creates a file with the right file extensions - e.g. if you paste javascript it’ll create a .js file) - it also has full web torrent support, but needs to be enabled in the settings page as it’s in beta
Here’s to a 2026 full of self hosting and coding <3
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Congratulations mate. I wish I had your talent.
I have a (possibly ignorant) question: is there a reason you didn’t choose GPLv3 as the licence of choice for your projects?
I know license is perhaps the last thing in your ming, just curious.
Actually that was a conscious choice! I initially went for MIT on them as they were small little apps I used withing my house with my wife, but as they grew I decided I wanted to truly protect the open source nature of them
Reading a bit into licensing I learned that with agplv3 projects can be copied/taken without credits/do anything people want with it, just like MIT/gplv3, however they MUST stay open source.
Which means no greedy corporation can steal my code, improve upon it, close source it and pay wall features :) they can still do all that, but code must always be open source haha
p.s. I’m fairly ignorant on the matter too, I just searched the licensing that was most likely to make sure my projects stay open source and went for it ♥️
Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?
Ha! I kept busy indeed. I am a full time software engineer, so I have a full time job on top of that, yeah.
Aside from the obvious “I work fast”, I had a lot of free evening time this year, won’t get too into it but my child spends a lot of time in hospital. These were a great escape for me (and coding is my hobby, so I mostly do that rather than playing video games or watching TV you know)
Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.
I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.
Thank you :) and that’s still extremely valuable and please feel free to contribute if you feel like it!
I am a “fix it forward” kinda person, worked for a decade in digital agencies and even tho I now work as a tech lead in a slow-ish software engineering company I still have that hectic mentality/background, hard to shake it off you know hahaha
And yeah, I have two kids under 4, so I totally get the whole time consuming part, if it weren’t for my peculiar situation I don’t think I’d get as much done as I do now not gonna lie. AI also helps speed things up, for example I added translation support to Jotty and having Claude tackle half the code base string replacement while I was doing the other half felt like having an intern!!
Setting up a notes app was next on my list, excited to give Jotty a go. Keep up the awesome work 👏
Thank you! Hopefully it resonates with you ♥️
I have much respect for the opensource dev teams/individuals that write the software I use. It just seems to be a more personal product than using an equal commercial solution. Plus, I get a ton of fun and education from it all, so thank you so very much for your efforts. They are much appreciated.
Thank YOU for such a lovely message <3
It’s tough, I get downvoted to hell on reddit whenever I try and propose anything I built, not sure if they think I’m selling something or they just plain hate it, so I really really appreciate messages like this!
