# Start9Labs/start-technologies

Monorepo for StartOS, StartWRT, StartTunnel, start-sdk, start-docs, start-cli, start-registry, patch-db, and various shared libraries

Repository: https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-technologies
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/start-technologies
Homepage: https://start9.com
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: personal-server, self-hosting, p2p, open-source, privacy, router-os, server-os, vpn
Last push: 2026-08-26T20:37:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2119, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 37, "gap_med": 0.5, "n_releases_24m": 37}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1983, forks 194 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:01.932625+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: self-hosted, deployment, container-runtime, vpn, backup, monitoring, sdk, cli, http-server, configuration-management
- domain: self-hosted, privacy, operating-systems, developer-tools, networking, censorship-circumvention
- platform: self-hosted, rust, cli, embedded, cross-platform
- tags: personal-server, server-os, sovereign-computing, monorepo, openwrt, wireguard, package-registry, service-packaging, marketplace, angular, startos, containers, automation, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- Start9Labs/start-technologies (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.932625+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:24.919768+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-technologies (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.932625+00:00, sha b849ac5bb096)
  - homepage: https://start9.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:19.573042+00:00, sha 486c4e89c801)
  - site_page: https://docs.start9.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:19.575598+00:00, sha ca9c634c8359)
  - site_page: https://start9.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:19.577404+00:00, sha b74ce89e0ea8)
  - site_page: https://docs.start9.com/packaging (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:19.582003+00:00, sha c3b967cf0a8e)
  - site_page: https://docs.start9.com/start-os/installing-startos.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:19.583917+00:00, sha 74310f0fd836)
  - site_page: https://start9.com/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:19.579644+00:00, sha 07c172efb32d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.