Original project release post here for context: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/H4uS9GlwRJ
As a senior software engineer who’s working hard to build a tool for the self hosting community I’m hoping my post will be received better here, given the r/selfhosted’s new megathread tar pit rule for young projects… I’m reposting the Libre Closet feature update announcement here as I had planned to today on r/selfhosted.
I hope this finds some of the people who expressed interest in the project as we worked really hard to deliver on the requested features.
The intended release post read as the following:
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First I would like to share gratitude for the warm and supportive reception Libre Closet received when I initially posted about it about a month ago. This really motivated me to take the project seriously.
I’d like to introduce ShoshannaTM who’s joined the project as one of the core maintainers.
Since the first post, we’ve gotten 88 github stars, over 3.1k docker image pulls, 2 community PRs contributed, and many helpful issues filed. We’ve made a point to try to respond to everyone in a timely manner and stay engaged with the budding community growing around this project.
We’ve focused a lot on quality and have taken the time to address bugs with numerous minor version releases.
The features and quality improvements have been made with considerable time, engineering, and intention. While myself and Shoshanna are using copilot to accelerate development, substantial upfront deliberate design was done on our part before any feature development. Additionally, nothing is taken without thorough iteration and human review. This project is not vibe coded. It is engineered and we take much pride in our craft and the quality of our work.
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, whether about the development choices we’ve made, or about the product itself. Both of us are excited to continue to build a community around this project.
Key changes in this version include:
- Background removal for garment images
- Outfit scheduling calendar, with the ability to plan multiple outfits per day, and mark outfits as worn (future versions could use worn outfit data to tell you which garments you wear most, or perhaps track laundry)
- An improved outfit builder, which allows you to include as many or few garments as you’d like in a single outfit
- Total customization flexibility for garment categories
As before we’ve maintained the ease of self hosting and only one docker command is needed to deploy! For everyone already hosting Libre-Closet, you simply need to pull the fresh `latest` image to update to the v0.2.0 release.
`docker run -p 3000:3000 -v wardrobe-data:/data ghcr.io/lazztech/libre-closet:latest`
We can’t wait for everyone to try it out, and we hope you enjoy V0.2.0 of Libre Closet!
Public: https://librecloset.lazz.tech/
GitHub: https://github.com/lazztech/Libre-Closet
That’s awesome, I’ll give it a spin today.
When you’re ready (now?), considering adding your project here: https://selfh.st/submit/
It’s a popular selfhoster newsletter and repository, it may give you a wider audienceThank you, yes this was already on my radar and Libre-Closet actually already ended up on that news list somehow as a new project without me submitting it.
We’ve certainly been on the lookout for ways to share this project with more people 🖤
I’ve thought about how cool it would be if a project like this exited for a while. I will definitely have to try it out soon seeing this! To be able to mix and match not only from closet but in an app because going through clothing combinations and scurrying through drawers can be annoying.
We hope you enjoy it! 🖤
This was actually on my project backlog for many years and I couldn’t have anticipated the warm community reception.
There’s existing, well loved tools like this one that I’ve since become aware of like Stylebook and Acloset, but none of them are open source/selfhostable. We’re hoping to grow this into the defacto tool in that niche.
I think there will be a lot of good karma from building a solution in this space that gives the users full ownership of their data since it can be a fair amount of work to build out your digital wardrobe and curate all of the information.
I always wanted something like this! I’ll definitely try it out. Thank you!!
Certainly, we hope you find it useful!
Am somewhat disappointed that this isn’t the release of Open Source Clothing that you can compile (sew) at home :)
Have you seen FreeSewing?
Interesting!
Oh that’s cool!
I’ve seen something like that online, I can’t remember the name but it might have been targeted towards trans people so then can get new clothes in secret or something
From the github if you were wondering:
Free, open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer. Catalog clothes, build outfits, PWA. Docker one-liner deploy.
good for wife, definitely gonna try this one out.
For myself not so much, all my clothes I can fit in one suitcase 😅
We hope your wife finds it useful! Please feel welcome to share any feedback either here or on the repo 🖤
will do, tysm 🙏
Never heard of this, but it seems like an interesting idea. Probably not something I would use myself, but I wish y’all the best of luck!
Thank you 🖤
neat! very unique idea which is impressive these days
Thank you, tbh I started it as just a kinda silly side project for myself and I’ve been really pleasantly surprised by it’s reception 🖤
Holy shit, this is great! I’ve always wanted something like this!
Thank you so much, I’ll give it a try!
Glad to hear you like it! We worked really hard on it and hope you enjoy it :)
How well does this work with Podman?
Edit: works perfectly fine on podman, just replace “docker” with “podman” on
docker run -d \Ahh, I hadn’t tested that, that’s good to hear! Thank you for sharing.
This is one of those things I kinda wanted but was never going to make myself. I’ll probably add it to my server this week.
Awesome, please feel welcome to reach out either here or on the repo if you run into any issues or questions! 🖤
