One operating system, one quiet interfacTurn a spare PC into a private AI homeserver. 495+ one-click Docker apps, plus Liv, an AI agent with MCP that installs apps and runs your containers for you. Bring your own Claude or Gemini key. Open source and TypeScript.
Hey Product Hunt. We are Bruce and Alton, co-founders of Livinity.
We kept hitting the same wall with self-hosting: getting apps running is easy now, but the box still needs a sysadmin. So we built the homeserver OS we wanted, with an AI assistant baked in.
Livinity gives you a clean dashboard and a one-click library of 495+ Docker apps (Nextcloud, Plex, Home Assistant, n8n, and more), plus Liv, an AI assistant. Liv uses MCP, so you can just ask it to install an app, manage a container, find a file, or set up an automation, and it does the work on your system. It even remembers context across sessions. You bring your own model (Claude or Gemini), so the intelligence is frontier-grade but your data never leaves your hardware.
It's fully open source , TypeScript end to end. Self-host it from one curl | bash, or use the managed cloud at livinity.io with zero setup.
Would love your feedback, especially on the Liv experience and which apps you'd want next. Happy to answer anything. 🙏
The part I'm stuck on is the single-box risk. All my self-hosted setups eventually have a drive or PSU die on the spare PC, and that's usually fine because I just rebuild from a compose file. With Livinity, is there an export for the whole setup, app configs, data volumes, and whatever context Liv has built up, so a hardware failure doesn't mean starting over from zero? Or is backup something I'm expected to bolt on myself outside the OS.
Finally tried Livinity on an old mini PC this week and the one-click app library is genuinely impressive, but the real win is Liv setting up containers through chat without me touching a terminal.
Since 2020,
this idea would not leave me alone.
The dream was simple. One computer I could reach from anywhere. It stays home, but I carry all of its power with me wherever I go. My apps run in Docker. No more monthly subscriptions for things I should already own.
Moving to San Francisco brought it all back. I kept asking why everyone spends so much on powerful laptops. A mini PC costs less and does more. Put Livinity on it, and any laptop turns into a doorway to that power, used better and more efficiently than before.
Two years of nights and early mornings went into this.
Here it is. Livinity.
Co-Founder of Livinity
Finally a way to use that old PC collecting dust. Liv set up Plex in like a minute and the MCP agent actually understood what I wanted instead of guessing. Wish more home server stuff felt this calm.
Curious how it handles resource limits on lower-end spare PCs, especially when running a local LLM alongside 10+ Docker containers at the same time?
Curious how this holds up long-term on a modest spare PC like an old NUC, does it get sluggish once you stack a bunch of those Docker apps and keep Liv running at the same time?
Does Liv handle updates and security patches for the docker apps automatically, or is that on me to keep everything current?
Spun up Livinity on an old mini PC this weekend and was honestly surprised how painless the install was. Having Liv handle the docker setup through MCP feels like a real upgrade over my usual tinkering routine.
Spun up Livinity on an old mini PC over the weekend and was surprised how calm the interface feels, especially with 495+ apps just a click away. Liv handled installing a few containers for me without me babysitting the terminal, which is the part that usually kills my momentum.
Spun up Livinity on an old NUC and was surprised how calm the whole thing feels, especially with Liv handling the container stuff instead of me poking around in terminal at midnight.
The bring-your-own-key model (Claude or Gemini) so data never leaves the hardware is exactly the tradeoff I want from a self-hosted setup. Curious about the Liv side: when it installs an app or edits a container via MCP, is there a confirmation/dry-run step before it changes state, or does it just execute? Would love to trust it with automations but want a guardrail on destructive actions.
About Livinity on Product Hunt
“Open-source homeserver OS with a built-in AI agent”
Livinity launched on Product Hunt on July 1st, 2026 and earned 93 upvotes and 20 comments, placing #27 on the daily leaderboard. One operating system, one quiet interfacTurn a spare PC into a private AI homeserver. 495+ one-click Docker apps, plus Liv, an AI agent with MCP that installs apps and runs your containers for you. Bring your own Claude or Gemini key. Open source and TypeScript.
Livinity was featured in Open Source (68.6k followers), Developer Tools (515.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 217.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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