Like a caveman. Drawers full of paper, documents scattered across emails, Google Drive and download folders. 20 years of automating things for businesses as a software engineer. I felt embarrassed. Then I bought a used Mac Studio by accident.
famstack is my answer. An open source stack for photos, documents, family memories, local AI and automated backups. Running on a Mac in our home. Private. No subscriptions. Nothing leaves the house.
Now we are recording voice messages from our kids as a kind of diary. I wish I had started six years earlier.
~ git clone famstack.dev ~/famstack ./setup.sh ✓ Caddy · Immich · Paperless · Matrix · Ollama All 8 services running. Time for a coffee.
Your family life, captured
and working for you.
This runs on a Mac in our house. Because tech should serve families too.
Your phone sends a message, Matrix routes it to your Mac, and nothing leaves your home.
Get notified when the repo goes online. One mail. Promise.