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cStatevsYouCast

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

cStateYouCast
Score62/10046/100
Rank in category#7 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#8 of 18 in Podcasts
GitHub stars2 901265
Stars, last 30 days+6+0
Stable releases, 12 months20
Latest releasev7-r1 · 17 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITGPL-2.0
Main languageHTMLC

Which one should you pick?

cState scores 62/100 against 46/100 for YouCast, so it is the safer default.

cState ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for YouCast.

cState is growing faster right now (+6 stars in 30 days).

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