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Command Center: Managing 33 Side Projects with ADHD
I have ADHD and 33 side projects. At some point I lost track of which ones are finished, which are half-baked, and which I forgot exist entirely. So I did what any reasonable ADHD person would do - I built another side project to manage them all.
February 2026 · DevOps · Self-Hosting
>_The chaos
33 projects. Some deployed, some half-baked, some I genuinely forgot existed. Scattered across Vercel, Coolify, bare Docker containers, and a handful of "I'll deploy it later" repos. Add in a dozen self-hosted services - Nextcloud, Home Assistant, n8n, Uptime Kuma, changedetection.io, DocuSeal, Postiz, Strapi - and things get out of hand fast.
The breaking point was when I couldn't remember which port a service was running on. Not which server - which port. When your mental model of your infrastructure is "I'll just remember the port number", you've already lost.
>_The solution
The Command Center brings everything under one local URL. It runs 100% locally since it holds sensitive data - API keys, credentials, deployment configs. Never exposed to the internet.
Lifecycle Tracker
State of every project: deployed, in progress, abandoned, forgotten. Visual overview of the entire portfolio at a glance.
Secrets Manager
Encrypted storage for API keys, MCP tokens, and credentials. No more searching through .env files across 33 repos.
Service Directory
Direct links to every self-hosted service. Uptime Kuma, n8n, Home Assistant, Nextcloud - one click away instead of remembering ports.
Task Tracking
Unified inbox pulling from built-in tasks, Linear, and GitHub Issues. Mobile API for on-the-go access.
>_The numbers
33
Side projects
25
Deployed
12+
Self-hosted services
After Vercel bills went from $0 to $40 in a week due to fast iterations, I moved most of my setup to self-hosted Coolify. I already pay for infrastructure to host Minecraft servers - so why not put it to work?
If you're self-hosting anything, I fully recommend building something like this. It's a game changer when your setup grows beyond "I'll just remember the port number." The other 8 projects that aren't deployed yet? We don't talk about those.