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5 open-source picks · replaces 5 SaaS · self-host on your own VPS

Persona. Distributed team of 5-25 replacing Slack + Notion + Asana + Zoom + 1Password with one VPS bill.

Stack total · starts at
$30/mo
sum of per-tool VPS-cost lower bounds
Hardest setup in stack
moderate
worst of 5 picks
Health mix
5 alive
live from GitHub at build time

Why these together

This stack is the minimum viable replacement for a Slack + Notion + Asana + Zoom + 1Password setup, picked for low operational overhead rather than feature parity. Mattermost is the Slack-clone everyone expects; Outline is the Notion piece that ports cleanly via Notion's own export; Vikunja is the boards-and-tasks app most teams find tolerable to administer; Jitsi handles ad-hoc rooms (no scheduled-meeting scaffolding — pair with Cal.com if you need that); Vaultwarden is the credentials vault that closes the only remaining 'we still pay a vendor' line. All five run inside a docker-compose on a $20 VPS for teams up to ~25, and each authenticates against a single Authentik or Keycloak if you decide to add SSO later.

The 5 picks

Pick Replaces Cost / setup Health
mattermost/mattermost · AGPL-3.0 (Team Edition) / Source Available (Enterprise)
Slack
Team chat
$5/mo+
easy · 15min docker-compose
alive
★ 36.6k · today
outline/outline · BSL-1.1
Notion
Notes / wiki / docs
$5/mo+
easy · 15min docker-compose
alive
★ 38.4k · today
go-vikunja/vikunja · AGPL-3.0
Asana
Project + task management
$5/mo+
easy · 10min docker-compose
alive
★ 4.19k · 2d ago
jitsi/jitsi-meet · Apache-2.0
Zoom
Video conferencing
$10/mo+
moderate · 15-30min (Debian package + nginx)
alive
★ 29.2k · 1d ago
1Password
Password manager / secrets vault
$5/mo+
easy · 10min docker-compose
alive
★ 60.1k · 7d ago

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