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.
Put this on my list of projects to dig into when I have time. I briefly tried Grocy a while back thinking I may be able to use it for inventory mgmt, but it didn’t stick. I want to say I found some other self hosted home inventory project at one point but didn’t stick with that one either. It’s one of those things that I think you have to really invest in to get ROI back, but that’s hard to do, especially when it’s more than just yourself (wife-factor) planning to utilize it that also has to buy-in and commit.
Seems like such a great idea until you have to maintain it, yeah.
There’s probably been a home inventory spreadsheet on every hard drive I’ve ever owned and not a single one was in a useful state.