selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

paperclipvsRSSerpent

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

paperclipRSSerpent
Score88/10041/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#63 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars108 352204
Stars, last 30 days+25 528+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITMIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 41/100 for RSSerpent, so it is the safer default.

paperclip ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for RSSerpent.

If you want the quickest setup, RSSerpent is easier to run; paperclip needs more configuration.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+25 528 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project

Keep paperclip, compare it with
Keep RSSerpent, compare it with