Nginx
How vibe coders and indie builders use Nginx: 45 projects built with it and 2 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
45
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.4%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
2
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
- Docker 15
- Node.js 15
- PostgreSQL 12
- Cloudflare 9
- SQLite 9
- React 9
- Python 8
- Next.js 7
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Nginx
- OLS (Open Local Server) — Runs local websites with automatic .test domains, trusted HTTPS, per-site web servers and PHP versions, and one-click installs of common dev services.“After 6 years on Laragon, I built my own free, open-source local dev environment: OLS”
- Viewpoint Arena — Hosts shared 3D model review sessions with pointing, presenter following, and video calls, and turns meeting transcripts into action cards.“I built a self-hosted app for reviewing 3D models together”
- Bad Decisions — Runs a party card game engine where players generate and play custom Cards Against Humanity style decks shared as portable packs.“Bad Decisions - A portable party card-game engine with a web UI, REST API, and .carddeck packs”
- federal-rules.com, state-rules.com, federal-regs.com — Hosts free, searchable copies of US federal and state court rules, administrative regulations, and the U.S. Code, scraped from primary government sources.“I'm a lawyer. My side project is three free sites that serve a million court rules and regulations from primary sources.”
- Tasqs — Manages to-do tasks with CSV export, a public API, encrypted task content, and a weekly review that surfaces repeatedly rescheduled tasks for commit, shrink, or drop decisions.“I built a to-do app that actually lets you take your data with you (and a weekly "task amnesty")”
- Diamond Man — Runs a browser endless-runner game where a diamond character dodges obstacles and collects gems across 20 themed levels.“I vibe coded a game this afternoon - Diamond Man (Let me tell you how)”
- Hjemmeboka — Catalogs household belongings room by room from photos, using AI to recognize items and totaling their value.“I built an app that documents everything you own at home, room by room, using AI photo recognition (iOS + Android)”
- SteamGram — Shows one random Steam game at a time with trailer, screenshots, and tags, letting users swipe to the next.“SteamGram – an Instagram-style feed of random Steam games”
- 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!”
- Map301 — Matches old and new URL lists by path and exports redirect rules for common web servers and hosts.“I shipped a new tool: two URL lists in, a redirect file out. No accounts.”
- Would you use a mobile… — Gives a Linux workstation a touch-first mobile interface for terminal, files, apps, processes, Docker, Git and dev servers.“Would you use a mobile interface for your Linux workstation?”
- RETR0's YouTube Converter — Converts YouTube videos to audio or video files in chosen qualities on a self-hosted Linux server, with a job queue and live server stats.“I built RETR0's YouTube Converter — my first open-source self-hosted project”
- Update on my cloud system — Runs a self-hosted cloud on two thin clients, hosting websites, databases, monitoring, backups and failover.“Update on my cloud system”
- YouMeOS — Runs a self-hosted personal web operating system with a canvas-based workspace for organizing apps, notes and data, plus a desktop installer that deploys it locally.“Introducing YouMeOS: An open, self-hosted web OS with spatial browsing (info video + 1-click desktop installer)”
- After today's AI-assisted… — Publishes a news site built with Django and Postgres, receiving scraped content from an external agent through an API.“After today's AI-assisted coding session, I asked Clod how my 45 years of experience moved the needle”
Latest add-ons built for Nginx
- CrawlLedger — Analyzes Nginx or Caddy access logs offline to estimate the origin cost of crawler traffic and produces an HTML report with suggested server-config policies.“I built an offline CLI that shows what crawlers actually cost your origin”
- Origintracer — Observes requests across nginx, Gunicorn, Uvicorn and Django to trace low-level behavior in the web stack.“Origintracer”