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AFFiNE Community Editionvssearchmysite.net

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

AFFiNE Community Editionsearchmysite.net
Score83/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 42 in Knowledge Management#33 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars73 948140
Stars, last 30 days+1 002+0
Stable releases, 12 months410
Latest releasev0.27.4 · 17 Aug 2026v1.4.34 · 18 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

AFFiNE Community Edition scores 83/100 against 44/100 for searchmysite.net, so it is the safer default.

searchmysite.net ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for AFFiNE Community Edition.

If you want the quickest setup, AFFiNE Community Edition is easier to run; searchmysite.net needs more configuration.

AFFiNE Community Edition is growing faster right now (+1 002 stars in 30 days).

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