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Start9Labs/start-technologies

Monorepo for StartOS, StartWRT, StartTunnel, start-sdk, start-docs, start-cli, start-registry, patch-db, and various shared libraries observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Start9Labs/start-technologies · homepage · Rust · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

98/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 95
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0.5
  • age_days: 2119
  • days_rel: 37
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 37

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1983 stars · 194 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Start Technologies is the monorepo for Start9's products, headlined by StartOS, an open-source Linux distribution that turns any PC into a personal server with a web UI for discovering, installing, configuring, backing up, and monitoring self-hosted services. It also includes StartWRT (an OpenWrt-based router OS), StartTunnel (a WireGuard VPN server), the start-sdk for packaging services, a CLI, and a package registry server.

Use cases

  • run a personal server to self-host open-source apps without the command line
  • escape big tech cloud services and host my own data privately
  • set up a wireguard vpn for remote access to my home server
  • build and publish a package for a self-hosted service marketplace
  • turn a mini pc or raspberry pi into a plug-and-play home server
  • flash a router with an open-source privacy-focused OS
  • back up and monitor all my self-hosted services from one interface

When to choose

  • you want a polished, GUI-driven personal server OS with a curated marketplace of self-hostable services
  • you value sovereignty and privacy and want to replace custodial cloud services with your own hardware
  • you want to package and distribute self-hosted software with dependency management, backups, and health checks built in
  • you want an integrated VPN/tunnel and router OS alongside your server

When to avoid

  • you need to run large-scale production infrastructure or orchestrate clusters of servers
  • you prefer managing services manually with docker-compose or kubernetes on a general-purpose distro
  • you need a specific service that isn't yet packaged for StartOS and don't want to package it yourself
  • your hardware isn't supported by the available x86_64, ARM64, or RISC-V images

Facets

application · maturity active

self-hosted deployment container-runtime vpn backup monitoring sdk cli http-server configuration-management self-hosted privacy operating-systems developer-tools networking censorship-circumvention self-hosted rust cli embedded cross-platform personal-server server-os sovereign-computing monorepo openwrt wireguard package-registry service-packaging marketplace angular startos containers automation linux web-server

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Start9Labs/start-technologiesmain98

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