Hi selfhosters 👋
After the feedback I received from self-hosters here and elsewhere, I focused this update on things that matter specifically when you run everything on your own infrastructure.
This update adds:
- 🔗 Generate public shareable links for your projects
- 🗂 Organize everything using folders
- 🖼 Export a full project as a single image
But more importantly for this community:
- 🔌 Connect to GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and Forgejo
- 🏠 Use it with self-hosted Git servers
- 🔐 Provide a personal access token to work with private repositories
Several people mentioned the need to work with private repos and internal Git instances without relying on external services. You can now point Ideon to your own server and use your own token. No third-party dependency required.
Installation is still designed to stay simple. One curl command:
- Downloads the docker-compose.yml
- Downloads the env.example
- Generates all required secrets securely
- Prompts you for SMTP, app URL, port, etc.
- Starts the containers
No repo cloning. No manual secret generation. No external SaaS. Everything runs in two containers: app and database.
GitHub: https://github.com/3xpyth0n/ideon
Docs: https://www.theideon.com/docs
As always, I’m open to feedback. If you self-host it and hit friction anywhere, I want to know.
You’re not missing anything 🙂
Ideon isn’t fully tablet-compatible yet, and mobile portrait is even more limited at the moment.
Touch support is something I’ve been actively working on for a while. Some interactions, like right-click equivalents, need proper tactile handling, and that requires rethinking parts of the UX rather than just patching it.
A dedicated mobile mode for smaller screens is also planned. The challenge is making keyboard/mouse and touch experiences coexist cleanly without breaking workflows on either side, so it’s taking time to do it properly.
Sorry for the frustration on your side. I completely understand it. It’s definitely on my roadmap, even if it will require a bit more work before it feels right...
Thats cool, I don’t care much for portrait mode tbh, and was just curious if i was missing something.
Would it not be easier just to have an ‘add element’ button that has options for adding a component? Moving stuff around works fine. I’m not even fussed about linking stuff. Just looking for something to visualise the various docker services because i forget whats running on what PI, lol.
Yeah, that shouldn’t be hard to add.
If you don’t mind, open an issue just so I can track it properly. I’m already working on touch support anyway.
The plan is basically a long press on the background to open the menu and create blocks. That should feel natural on tablet without adding extra buttons everywhere.
Sounds good and put a whatsit in for an enhancement.
I don’t pay much attention to shithub so if you want someone to test anything out it’ll probably be easier to shout on here.
Yo, 0.3.3 is out.
You can now add elements on tablet by long-pressing on an empty space, it opens the context menu. Demo’s already updated if you want to test it there.
I’m guessing unless you’re on an iPad?
I’ll try later on the dell 7210 but sadly Apple has screwed up so many things with touch so i’m not surprised when stuff no longer “just works” on Apple!😞🤦♂️
Thanks for the quick changes though. I did seem to get a ‘dot’ to show up by tapping and holding but haven’t managed to reproduce how I actually did it and it wouldn’t move when dragging things around so 🤷♂️ lol