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paperclipvsWakeMyPotato

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

paperclipWakeMyPotato
Score88/10042/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#12 of 22 in Home Server
GitHub stars108 377148
Stars, last 30 days+25 553+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptShell

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 42/100 for WakeMyPotato, so it is the safer default.

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

paperclip is growing faster right now (+25 553 stars in 30 days).

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