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See the problem. Build the missing system.

Two management planes lead the list. Behind them: the platforms, automation and concepts that came from noticing friction and designing the missing layer.

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plane 01 · backup marcpope/borgbackupserver

creator · project lead · open source · launched Feb 2026

Borg Backup Server

Backup Server Management Plane

A control plane over Borg: outbound-only agents, append-only repositories, fleet automation, browser restores, SSO and role-based access. Grew from an internal tool to 800K+ downloads protecting 4,000+ endpoints across 1,000+ servers.

PHPPythonBorgClickHouseReact NativeOIDC

Case study Code Docs

320stars

40forks

12open issues

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plane 02 · remote access marcpope/cortendesk

creator · maintainer · open source · first build in a 3-day weekend

CortenDesk

Remote Access Management Plane

Enterprise polish, security and fleet management for RustDesk: a TypeScript browser client, a console with device policy, enterprise identity and audit history, and bundled forked hbbs/hbbr servers for simple deployment.

LaravelPHP 8.4TypeScriptWebCodecsWebSocketsLivewire

Case study Code Docs

100stars

18forks

8open issues

activelast push

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Platforms, pipelines and working concepts.

all 11 platforms 7 infrastructure & reliability 6 automation 11 ai & data 5 product & ux 8 open source 2 ideas & concepts 4

Borg Backup Server screenshot

01 · featured platformsinfrastructure-reliability

Borg Backup Server

800K+ downloads and 320+ GitHub stars since February 2026. A self-hosted enterprise backup platform protecting 4,000+ endpoints across 1,000+…

altorouter · apache · Apple Push Notifications · Apprise +18

CortenDesk screenshot

02 · featured platformsinfrastructure-reliability

CortenDesk

The free enterprise control plane the open-source RustDesk server was missing. Built in a three-day weekend, then nearly 100 GitHub stars and 30+…

Docker · Laravel · Livewire · MySQL +5

pingy.io screenshot

03 · featured platformsinfrastructure-reliability

pingy.io

Pingy explains why a site is down and what needs to improve. It correlates global uptime checks with deep DNS, SSL, domain, reputation, performance…

Alpine.js · Amazon Route 53 · Amazon S3 · Amazon SES +30

Truth Network Platform screenshot

04 · featured platformsautomation

Truth Network Platform

A years-built media, operations and AI content platform that helped grow Truth Network from 72 visitors a month to 50,000 a day. It manages stations…

Amazon CloudFront CDN · Amazon S3 · Bootstrap · CSS3 +13

AI Podcast Content Pipeline screenshot

05 platformsautomation

AI Podcast Content Pipeline

An automated AI content pipeline that turns new episodes across roughly 100 podcast feeds into transcripts, summaries, search data and publishable…

Bootstrap · Docker · GPU Cloud Provider API · Groq +7

Exit AWS (X-AWS) screenshot

06 platformsinfrastructure-reliability

Exit AWS (X-AWS)

A private-beta cloud-repatriation decision platform built to answer a hard executive question: what would it take to leave AWS? It inventories…

aws · cloud formation · Docker · PHP +2

FT Menu: Food Truck Operations screenshot

07 automationproduct-ux

FT Menu: Food Truck Operations

A working product concept for a bottleneck I could see: a two- or three-person food truck losing a full person to order entry. The system moves that…

Apple Pay · Bootstap · Google Wallet · Mobile Ordering +4

Homelab Operations Dashboard screenshot

08 infrastructure-reliabilityautomation

Homelab Operations Dashboard

One operations view for a Proxmox host, ZFS storage, 16 service probes and a Frigate camera stack. It pulls health, temperature, storage and…

Frigate NVR · Google Coral TPU · Grafana · linux +4

PXMTM: Proxmox Multi-Tenant Manager screenshot

09 platformsinfrastructure-reliability

PXMTM: Proxmox Multi-Tenant Manager

A control-plane concept that turns Proxmox clusters into a multi-tenant customer platform. Providers keep fleet-wide control while customers get a…

Fire Mark Circle of Americas screenshot

10 automationai-data

Fire Mark Circle of Americas

A public history resource and volunteer-operated publishing platform for fire marks, auctions, membership and newsletter archives. The rebuild…

Bootstrap · jQuery · MySQL · PHP +2

4 Seasons Insulation screenshot

11 automationai-data

4 Seasons Insulation

A two-day rescue of a nonmobile, inaccurate local-business site. I rebuilt the customer experience and added content management, analytics and…

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