Docker
How vibe coders and indie builders use Docker: 452 projects built with it and 13 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
452
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
3.1%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-4%
Add-ons built for it
13
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- PostgreSQL 97
- React 61
- Python 55
- SQLite 53
- Next.js 51
- TypeScript 47
- Claude API 45
- FastAPI 43
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Docker
- GhosttyEXTREME — Shows the live status of multiple coding agent sessions in a terminal, with a file editor that follows agent edits, a repo map, and infrastructure views.“I got tired of not knowing what my Claude Code agents were doing, so I built a terminal that shows them working live”
- Headwind — Imports cycling ride files and Strava exports into a self-hosted archive with ride history, performance trends, segments and health data.“Title: I wanted somewhere to keep my cycling history. It got slightly out of hand.”
- Open Instinct — Runs a personal assistant agent with memory, scheduling, a Linux desktop, and messaging over iMessage, SMS, or email, with per-contact trust tiers.“We built Open Instinct, a personal agent you can text and fork”
- BLADE — Downloads a public YouTube playlist as MP3 audio or video and packages the finished files into a ZIP.“I built a free, open-source YouTube playlist downloader with a clean web UI”
- StatusNest — Monitors website uptime with automatic checks and detects incidents, served as a self-hosted backend.“I built an uptime monitor from scratch”
- Python Automation Starter Kits — Packages reusable Python boilerplate for scrapers, Telegram bots, Tkinter UIs, FastAPI scraping APIs and RSS broadcasting into starter kits sold as a bundle.“I built a suite of 5 production-ready Python automation starter kits (Web Scraping, Telegram Bots, FastAPI REST, Tkinter UI)”
- Auth Your Agent — Lets an AI agent sign in and make purchases on websites while requiring the owner to approve sensitive actions from their phone.“Auth Your Agent - my AI agent now asks my phone before it signs in or buys anything”
- Stresix — Runs a load test of a user's app on dedicated servers and reports whether the server can handle the traffic, with per-core CPU and memory.“I built a load tester that tells you if your server is actually enough (no k6 scripts, ~10 min, real servers)”
- Rhyven Marketplace — Provides installable headless apps that AI agents discover and call through a unified MCP interface, with state kept between sessions.“Rhyven Marketplace”
- AgenticOS — Lets users build self-hosted AI agents with instructions, models, tools and documents, and run them from web chat, Slack, Telegram or an API.“We built AgenticOS, an open-source, self-hosted platform for your own AI agents. Here it is turning a CSV into a chart and answering from a document”
- OpenTerminalUI — Provides a self-hosted stock research terminal with charts, fundamentals, screening, backtesting, and an AI agent that summarizes a stock from live data and filings.“Spent way too many weekends building my own "Bloomberg terminal" for Indian + US stocks. Here's the AI agent doing a quick read on CCL”
- RetroArr — Turns YouTube playlists and Internet Archive shows into scheduled live TV channels that play on a shared clock and appear as an HDHomeRun tuner with an EPG.“I built RetroArr, a self-hosted retro TV station that turns YouTube & Archive playlists into live channels (works as an HDHomeRun tuner in Plex/Jellyfin/Emby)”
- WattLoom — Imports Strava export files into a local database and analyzes training load, routes, weather effects and bike maintenance.“I built a free, local app to analyze your Strava history – would love your feedback”
- sugabots — Hosts shared group chats where team members and AI agents work together, with agents running on schedules, webhooks, and MCP tools.“Built a group chat where you and your AI agents work together, now open source”
- Auth Your Agent — Lets an AI agent act on websites without ever seeing the user's password, requiring phone approval for logins and any data-changing actions.“I got tired of choosing between giving my AI agent my passwords and babysitting it at every login page”
Latest add-ons built for Docker
- wsm — Switches between saved workspaces by closing the current editor, terminal and Docker setup and opening the apps and commands configured for the next one.“Built a CLI/TUI tool (wsm) so I stop manually closing/reopening VS Code, terminal tabs, and Docker every time I switch projects”
- DevDock — Organizes local development projects with saved commands, run history, Git and Docker status, health checks and local security checks.“I made a Windows app to keep my local development projects in one place”
- composebuilder — Generates docker-compose.yml and .env files from checkboxes for selected services.“I got tired of writing docker-compose.yml from scratch every time, so I built a free visual generator. Looking for feedback!”
- vpsiner — Monitors host and container metrics and stores Docker container logs in SQLite so they persist and are searchable across restarts.“I built a lightweight Docker monitor with persistent logs that survive container restarts. 50MB RAM, single container, MIT license”
- Servitor — Runs common development services like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and RabbitMQ as Docker containers without manual setup.“Servitor -- Simplest way to run local dev containers (Opensource)”
- dockui — Provides a lightweight web dashboard for viewing and monitoring Docker containers and their logs.“Built better alternative to dozzle”
- Genet — Provides a graphical client for managing Docker containers, images and related resources.“Genet - A simple docker client made with rust”
- Docker mobile app — Monitors and manages Docker containers across multiple servers from a phone.“Docker mobile app for devs, indie hackers, home lab owners and any hobbyists”
- BLAZED.sh — Deploys Docker containers or JavaScript scripts onto machines co-located with live Ethereum nodes.“I built a PaaS that runs your Docker/OCI Containers and Scripts directly on Ethereum nodes”
- OpsDock — Manages Git projects, VPS and Docker hosts, deploys, logs, SSL certificates and production health from a single desktop workspace.“I built a desktop operations cockpit for solo devs who deploy to VPS/Docker. Feedback welcome.”
- Clixer Magic Prompts — Provides copy-paste prompts that make AI models generate production-safe Dockerfiles, docker-compose files and .env examples for Node, FastAPI and Next.js apps.“I kept failing at deploying my vibe-coded apps. So I wrote prompts that fix the Docker config problem for good.”
- ContainerFlow — Monitors Docker containers in a dashboard with corrected memory metrics that account for page cache.“Open-sourced my Docker dashboard Monday. 110+ starts later - 3 things i'd tell past-me”
- MegaCleaner — Scans a Mac for developer caches and other reclaimable files across many ecosystems, flagging stale items and the commands to regenerate them.“I had 16GB free on my Mac. Turns out 135GB of it was dev caches.”
Pitched as alternatives to Docker
- friday_memory — Stores text chunks and embeddings in SQLite and runs in-memory cosine similarity search in pure Go for retrieval.“Why I skipped Docker/Chroma and built in-memory Cosine Vector Search in pure Go”
- smolvault — Stores files in a single-file SQLite vault with deduplication and serves them over HTTP with byte-range streaming.“smolvault: one Python file, no pip, WORM storage, and a HTTP server with zero deps encryption that streams to mpv like a folder on your desktop.”
- Service Federation — Starts multi-service local dev stacks mixing containers and plain processes in dependency order, with per-worktree port and state isolation.“My coding agents kept fighting over port 3000, so I built fed: every git worktree gets its own full stack”
- trashdb — Provisions ephemeral throwaway databases such as Postgres and Redis via an API in about 200ms for CI pipelines, then automatically deletes them.“founder here: shipped my devtool saas MVP, but I have 0 distribution. how do you guys get the first 10 users to validate it?”
- Lerd — Runs local PHP development sites in rootless Podman containers with per-project PHP versions, .test domains, HTTPS, and bundled services.“I built lerd, an open source local PHP dev environment for Linux and macOS, my main side project for the past year”