# Your Own Family~Personal Intranet Open Source

> I got tired of re-building auth every time I vibe-coded something to solve a small idea

URL: https://chat.dailyai.studio/posts/your-own-familypersonal-intranet/
Date: 2026-04-12

Add what you want it is your personal intranet

Every time you vibe-code a little tool, you hit the same wall.

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Mobile friendly!

Auth. Database. DNS. SSL. You spend more time on infrastructure than on the actual idea. And then you want your partner to use it too — so now you’re managing user accounts and worrying about security for a *shopping list*.

You do it once for a recipe app. Again for a movie tracker. Again for a bookmarks tool. Three apps, three deploys, three sets of the same boring problems. The thing you actually wanted to build? That was the easy part.

**What if you only had to solve that once?**

That’s the idea. One platform. One login. One deploy. Then you just build little apps inside it — or pull in plugins other people have made.

Your family gets one link, one account, and access to everything you’ve built. Recipes, a watchlist, a shopping list — all in one place, all behind the same auth.

**The AI part is what makes it fun**

The other thing that changes the experience: you don’t type data in. You point AI at it.

Snap a photo of a wine bottle — it reads the label and fills in everything:

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Take a picture of a recipe or paste messy text — AI structures it into a proper recipe with ingredients, steps, and tags:

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For me I wanted Recipes

Type “Severance” — AI fetches the summary, tells you it’s on Apple TV+, tags it as a thriller, and grabs the poster:

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And Shows!

No forms. No data entry. Just point it at something and go.

**Or just build whatever you want**

The repo has docs that teach your AI assistant how the plugin system works. So you can literally say:
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“I want an app to track bookmarks. Use AI to grab the TLDR of each URL and auto-tag it.”

And Claude Code (or Codex, or Cursor) will build it for you — client, server, database, everything — because the platform handles the rest.

If someone else already built what you want, pull it in from a GitHub repo. One click in the admin panel.

**Try it**

It’s open source. Deploy it on Railway (or anywhere that runs Docker) and you’re up in minutes. One server, one SQLite database, all your apps.

→ [https://github.com/alnutile/intranet-platform](https://github.com/alnutile/intranet-platform)