What each service is, and how to get in
Most of these services share a single login through Pocket ID. Sign in once with your passkey and you're into the rest, with no separate passwords to keep track of. Your Matrix chat account is separate from this.
Pocket ID is the inn's single sign on. Instead of a password, it uses a passkey: your phone, laptop, or a hardware key proves it's you, so there's nothing to remember and nothing to leak.
Set up your passkey here once, then use it to sign in to HedgeDoc, CryptPad, and anything else we add later.
Already have an account on our Matrix homeserver? Then you're eligible for a Pocket ID too. Just ask any of us and we'll set you up. That's what unlocks the services that aren't open to the public, like HedgeDoc and CryptPad.
A shared notepad that several people can write in at the same time. You type in Markdown (plain text with simple formatting) on the left and see it rendered on the right.
Good for meeting notes, drafts, task lists, or any document a group needs to edit together. Each note gets its own link you can share.
A pastebin for sharing snippets of text or code through a link. The catch that makes it private: everything is encrypted in your browser before it's sent, so the server itself never sees what you pasted.
You can set a paste to expire after a while, require a password, or have it delete itself after the first read.
Not live yet. It'll appear in the row on the homepage once it's ready.
An entire office suite that's end to end encrypted, like a private Google Docs or Office where the server can't read your files. You can invite others to view or edit any document in real time.
Everything you make lives in CryptDrive, your encrypted home base inside CryptPad. It's where your files are organised, and where you start a new document of any of these kinds:
| Document | full word processor | |
| Rich Text | lightweight formatted text pad | |
| Sheet | spreadsheets and tables | |
| Presentation | slide decks | |
| Markdown Slides | slides written in Markdown | |
| Code | code editor with syntax highlighting | |
| Diagram | flowcharts and diagrams | |
| Kanban | task and project boards | |
| Form | surveys and polls | |
| Whiteboard | freeform drawing canvas |
A project board for organising work into boards, lists, and cards, in the style of Trello. Drag a card from one column to the next as a task moves along, and everyone sees it update in real time.
Each card can hold a description, checklists, labels, due dates, attachments, and comments, so it's a tidy way for a group to track who is doing what.
A virtual whiteboard for quick sketches and diagrams, with a loose hand drawn look. Great for wireframes, flowcharts, and explaining an idea on a blank canvas with others.
On its own, Excalidraw is one throwaway canvas with nowhere to save your work. We run it through Excalidash, a self hosted front end that adds accounts and storage on top, so you can keep a whole library of named boards and come back to them later. You'll still be drawing in plain Excalidraw, just with somewhere to save it.
Not live yet. It'll appear in the row on the homepage once it's ready.
A social network in the fediverse, the open alternative to the big timelines. You post short updates and follow people, but no single company owns it. Our server is just one neighbourhood in a much larger network, and you can follow and reply to anyone on any other server.
Because it runs on the same Matrix-style idea of federation, you stay in control of your account and your feed is in the order you posted, not whatever an algorithm wants to show you.
Not live yet. It'll appear in the row on the homepage once it's ready.
The control room behind the inn. Coolify is a self-hosted platform for deploying and managing apps, databases, and services, a bit like having your own private Heroku or Vercel running on our own hardware.
It's how a lot of what you see here gets started up, updated, and kept running. Mostly of interest to whoever's doing the hosting, but it's part of what keeps everything else online.
Access is invite only, for whoever's helping run the inn.
A place to host code. Forgejo is a self-hosted Git forge, our own GitHub, where you can keep repositories, track issues, open pull requests, and collaborate on projects without handing your code to anyone else.
It's lightweight, community-run, and built on open foundations, so it fits right in with the rest of what we host.
A password manager you can trust because we run it ourselves. Vaultwarden is a lightweight, self-hosted server that's fully compatible with the Bitwarden apps and browser extensions, so you get the polished client you already know with your vault stored here at the inn.
Everything is end to end encrypted with your master password before it leaves your device, so the server only ever holds a locked vault it can't read. One place for your passwords, passkeys, and secure notes, synced across all your devices.
Not live yet. It'll appear in the row on the homepage once it's ready.
A status page and uptime monitor for the inn. Uptime Kuma keeps an eye on our services and shows, at a glance, what's up and what's having a bad day, with a history of any outages.
Once it's live you'll have a single page to check whether something is down on our end before you go hunting for the problem on yours.
Not live yet. It'll appear in the row on the homepage once it's ready.