Safebox is basically a framework to help you install and manage self hosted apps. It also includes features like remote access, backup, monitoring, and disk management (the last three are still in development). Safebox handles all the setup for you, DNS configuration, SSL certificates, and so on. If you want remote access, all you need to do is provide a domain (it can be an existing one, or you can register it with us). Of course, you can still use it locally, remote access is just an optional feature.

For people who don’t want to deal with the technical side, or who are still learning but want to try out self-hosting, I think Safebox makes things a lot easier and gives them a solid starting point

Yeah, as I mentioned earlier, proper documentation is already in the works, and I hope that will make it clear how our project differs. Thanks for the suggestion!

I really like what you’re doing, keep it up!

Thanks your detailed feedback, I’ll try to go through all your points.

When we said Docker, we meant the desktop version, basically so anyone can try Safebox on their own desktop and check out the early product. We also added an auto docker install for server setups a few days ago.

You’re right about the docs, they’re still in the works, and proper documentation will be released soon.

That other post you mentioned got a bit too heated, so the mods took it down. Definitely wasn’t our intention to stir up tension, and it wasn’t about not liking the answer or linking it to the product. Right now we’re mainly looking for early feedback and for people curious enough to help test things out.

Thanks for explaining your point of view and your suggestions. It means a lot for us in this early state, and looking forward of any future feedback of your about the actual product.

Safebox is currently in mvp state, heavily under developement, and we looking for early user feedbacks. We created the dc server as a way to recieve these feedbacks and to lay the foundation for the future community.

Since a few of you mentioned the Docker installer, we added it. https://github.com/safeboxnetwork/framework-scheduler/blob/main/README.md It currently supports ubuntu, debian and raspbian. Thanks, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you run into any issues.

Thanks, we’ll consider it and see if we can make some changes to the design.

Thanks 😀 Safebox doesn’t automatically install Docker, but installing Docker is easy and we’ve got detailed instructions in our installation guide on the website. All you need is a working os, then you can follow the guide to set up docker before launching Safebox.

Thanks for your feedback 😀 Yeah, the app list on the website can be a bit confusing since it moves around, we’ll fix that soon. For now, these are the apps you can use in Safebox: Jellyfin, HomeAssistant, Immich, Nextcloud, Guacamole, Leantime, Gitea, Vaultwarden, Transmission, SMTP, Outline, Filebrowser, PocketID We’re always working on adding more apps and improving existing features, so the list will keep growing over time.

Yeah, it’s similar to Yunohost or Sandstorm in that you can run self-hosted apps easily, but the main difference with Safebox is that it runs on any os with a single docker command. You don’t need to mess with terminals or commands afterward. Like Yunohost, you can install and manage apps through a web interface, while Safebox also adds geo-redundant backups and optional remote access,all in one interface.

Thanks a lot for the kind words and the nice feedback.

The idea and most of the core development came from my father-in-law, he started it years ago with one of his friends. My partner and I joined later to help mostly with testing ,using it, and coming up with ideas for what features might make it more practical for everyday use. We spent a lot of time researching similar projects and reading through community discussions to see what people were saying about their experiences and needs in the self-hosted world. We really care about keeping everything simple and transparent, so the UI and website design were done by another friend of my father-in-law.

We know there’s still a lot left to do, and that it’ll probably keep cutting into our sunday lunches 😄 but we hope it’ll end up being something genuinely useful for others too

Thank you so much for your valuable feedback and kind words.

About the VPN configuration transfer, we’ve thought about it a lot, and in the end this seemed like the best solution: we hide the config behind a long random URL make it available for 5 minutes, and then delete the link. So, in theory an unauthorized user would have only five minutes to guess the URL and gain access. If you have a better idea, I’d really appreciate it.

As for backup_challenge_clients.sh it’s still a work in progress. It doesn’t work in the current beta version, and none of its features are available in the web interface yet. We’ll let you know once it’s implemented.

We’ll fix the nginx config, I promise 🙂 Just keep in mind this isn’t meant to be a public-facing site yet, since there’s no user authentication for now. But we’ll definitely review the web server setup too.

Thanks again for all your feedback, please keep helping us improve