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Backstagevssearchmysite.net

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

Backstagesearchmysite.net
Score78/10044/100
Rank in category#8 of 166 in Developer Tools#33 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars34 736140
Stars, last 30 days+54—
Stable releases, 12 months1410
Latest releasev1.57.0-next.0 · 27 Oct 2026v1.4.34 · 18 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Backstage scores 78/100 against 44/100 for searchmysite.net, so it is the safer default.

Backstage ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for searchmysite.net.

Backstage is growing faster right now (+54 stars in 30 days).

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