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Cost to list: Free
Approval: Editorial review
Link type: Nofollow link; Checked on a live listing
Shows up in searches for: 1 business type; Best #4, Open-source projects
Popularity: Tranco #31; Rank of github.com
Countries: Worldwide

Checked Oct 20, 2026 · 3 sources

Is awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) worth it?

Our reading of the measured data, not a score.

For its audience

Worth it if developers are your users.

awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) made Google's top 10 in 1 of the 4 buyer searches we ran for the 1 business type it accepts. Listing is stated as free. Profile links are reported nofollow, so list for customers, not for SEO links.

What works

Showed up in Google for Open-source projects, as high as #4
Free to list

Watch out for

Nofollow links: list for customers, not for SEO

Measured fit, by business type

How often awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) made Google's top 10 in our US buyer searches for the types it accepts.

Open-source projects 1/4

Some · best #4

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Where awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) shows up when people search

We ran 399 real buyer searches (Google US, desktop) for 100 business types on Oct 20, 2026 and recorded which directories made the organic top 10. Local packs and ads are not counted.

awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) accepts 1 business type we measure. Here is every one, with what Google showed instead, so you can see where a listing would and wouldn't be found.

Open-source projects

1/4

awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) ranked as high as #4 in 1 of these searches. Directories of any kind held 32% of the top-10 spots.

Directories

r/selfhosted 2/4, Medium 2/4, r/macapps 1/4

Other sites

reddit.com, xda-developers.com, datamation.com

Searches: “open source alternative to notion”, “self hosted alternatives”, “best open source crm”, “open source alternatives” result

Bars show the searches where it made the organic top 10. "Directories" lists the tracked directories that did rank for the same searches, with their hit count. How we measure

What awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) costs and who can list

As stated on awesome-selfhosted (GitHub)'s own pages or reported by a named source. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Who can list: Open-source projects

Census audience: self-hosted software · Worldwide
Pricing: Free

Free; community-curated open-source list (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Approval: Editorial review. Pull request (or issue) to the awesome-selfhosted-data repo adding a software/<name>.yml file; maintainers review against the guidelines; no timeline stated. Curation removes software with no development activity for 6-12 months, non-working or unmaintained software, or persistent security issues. The PR template asks the submitter to attest the submission was done by a human, not an LLM.
Link attribute: Nofollow link. We checked a live listing on Oct 20, 2026: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted.
Requirements: Free/open-source self-hostable software; first release more than 4 months old; actively maintained; working installation instructions; not already listed; YAML entry following the template (kebab-case filename, tags, license).
Note: GitHub renders external links in repository markdown with rel='nofollow' (verified on the CONTRIBUTING.md render and README homepage links); the README itself is too large for GitHub to render inline.
Sources: raw.githubusercontent.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Prices and rules change; the linked pages are the authority.

How to get listed on awesome-selfhosted (GitHub)

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Prepare your details

awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) asks for: Free/open-source self-hostable software; first release more than 4 months old; actively maintained; working installation instructions; not already listed; YAML entry following the template (kebab-case filename, tags, license).
- A public repository or published package
- README with install and usage steps
- A license file
- Whatever manifest or metadata the registry requires
- A maintainer account that can respond to issues
Our standard checklist for this kind of site (developer marketplace), not a list published by awesome-selfhosted (GitHub).
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Open the submit page
github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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Approval: editorial review

Pull request (or issue) to the awesome-selfhosted-data repo adding a software/<name>.yml file; maintainers review against the guidelines; no timeline stated. Curation removes software with no development activity for 6-12 months, non-working or unmaintained software, or persistent security issues. The PR template asks the submitter to attest the submission was done by a human, not an LLM.
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Check the watch-outs

1 thing to know before you post.

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Questions about awesome-selfhosted (GitHub)

Is awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) worth it for getting listed?

Worth it if developers are your users. awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) made Google's top 10 in 1 of the 4 buyer searches we ran for the 1 business type it accepts. Listing is stated as free. Profile links are reported nofollow, so list for customers, not for SEO links. This is our reading of the measured data.

How much does a awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) listing cost?

Free. What we found: Free; community-curated open-source list (CC BY-SA 3.0).. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Is a link from awesome-selfhosted (GitHub) dofollow?

Nofollow link, as reported in our census.

How do I get listed on awesome-selfhosted (GitHub)?

Start at github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md. Approval: editorial review (Pull request (or issue) to the awesome-selfhosted-data repo adding a software/<name>.yml file; maintainers review against the guidelines; no timeline stated. Curation removes software with no development activity for 6-12 months, non-working or unmaintained software, or persistent security issues. The PR template asks the submitter to attest the submission was done by a human, not an LLM.). Have your details ready first (see "How to list" above).

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