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Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! (hay-kot.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by EncryptKeeper to c/selfhosted

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Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! With a focus on simplicity and ease of use, Homebox is the perfect solution for your home inventory, organization, and management needs. While developing this project I've tried to keep the following principles in mind:

Simple - Homebox is designed to be simple and easy to use. No complicated setup or configuration required. Use either a single docker container, or deploy yourself by compiling the binary for your platform of choice. Blazingly

Fast - Homebox is written in Go which makes it extremely fast and requires minimal resources to deploy. In general idle memory usage is less than 50MB for the whole container.

Portable - Homebox is designed to be portable and run on anywhere. We use SQLite and an embedded Web UI to make it easy to deploy, use, and backup.

(I am not affiliated with this project)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So, I used Homebox for a few days now. I like the simplicity of it and I like the direction they're going. However, there are quite a few bugs and data loss issues, it's not ready for production yet. The thing is, these issues should be so easy to fix (it's a simple CRUD app) that it makes me doubt the dev skills and possibility of other issues I haven't discovered yet.

The purchase date just increments or decrements by one day after editing an item
When editing an item the notes/description fields show the data from the previously edited item, causing you to overwrite data

These two issues alone made me go back to my spreadsheet for now (good thing I kept a backup). I simply don't trust the app to keep my data intact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your feedback! I was going to try this out but your comment makes me want to give them some more time. Ive been waiting for a long time so I don't mind giving it some more time to cook.

At the moment I'm in the middle of mixing Netbox and snipeit, so maybe by the time I get frustrated with both of them, homebox will be in a better state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hello, I just saw this post as I stumbled upon Homebox recently and thought about searching for it on Lemmy......so I'm sorry for posting this late. Which version of Homebox did you try? Did you try again with newer version? As I'm looking forward for a simple database for home inventory, I'm just curious how it ended and what are you using today! Thank you very much!