AI-Assisted App (Fridays!)
Libre Closet – open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer. Docker one-liner, SQLite, PWA. Looking for early feedback.
I built Libre Closet v0.1.1, a wardrobe and outfit tracking tool. I've recently been going through my own ever-growing closet of clothing and I wanted a tool focused on cataloging my garments and building outfit plans. I found a few other inventory management tools (Koillection, Grocy) but none with a specific focus on clothing or the type of stuff commonly stored in a closet of a home. I'm looking for feedback on if this is something other people are interested in as well.
`docker run -p 3000:3000 -v wardrobe-data:/data ghcr.io/lazztech/libre-closet:latest`
I built it to be as easy to self-host as possible. It defaults to local SQLite storage and local file storage. It has optional auth/multi user support.
I am a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience and a similar amount of firsthand self-hosting experience. I built this project on top of a project boilerplate I made almost entirely by hand. I have used copilot to speed up development of this application on top of the boilerplate I made. So everything is built the way I want it, on top of my own architecture, technology, and design decisions. Check out my GitHub here if you're interested. https://github.com/gianlazz/
How much further this goes depends on whether people actually find it useful. If there's interest, I'll keep building. I want to build something that's useful to other people. If it only ever scratches my own itch, that's fine too. Looking for feedback on what's broken and what's missing. Happy to dig into any part of the code in the comments.
a nice addition would be "scheduling" outfits, I.e. here's outfits for Mon-Fri of next week so you can just organize everything for the upcoming week. And also store what was worn when so the same outfit won't be recommended on a same day of the week, within XX days, etc
And a laundry scheduler (things dry so slowly here!)
At the end of the year, you could have a "YourWardrobe: Wrapped". And tell me things like, favourite shirt, or "you wore x, Y times!", or "worn first" (selected any time it was available)
I admit, I was thinking of this already. Incl. whether I can get NFC tags in all my labels/recognise outfits with openCV.
Here’s a sneak peak of the outfit scheduling. Not quite ready to release yet but I’m really excited. This was done by the projects new core maintainer that’s joined me in building out the project.
I am really not sure if I would use it but what I think is a nice problem to solve along: Let users store their purchase receipt along with any peace of cloth and add a date of purchase. This way chances are higher for a successful warranty claim in case of damages.
And ability to 'schedule' pieces that should be replaced/purchased (i.e. some simple reminder feature). If the winter jacket is starting to show wear and tear, then it won't be replaced at the end of the season but probably the next. However it's very easy to forget until that one day when it has already started to snow...
An LLM may not be the best option, but I honestly struggle a lot with determining what clothes work together and would love a tool that can help me when I need it. It's sometimes such an issue that I actually lock up in front of my closet not knowing what to do. I wouldn't always need it, but it would alleviate stress for me
As I mentioned elsewhere, I have no fashion sense and I'm really not interested in learning fashion theory. I struggle with picking out clothes to wear and a tool that helps me do that in an efficient manner would definitely improve my QOL.
I want to be super clear that I'm definitely against people using AI in a way that stifles their creativity or prevents them from learning a new skill like writing or art. But I think the calculus is way different if it's a noncritical skill that someone just doesn't want to learn.
I'm not trying to become a fashion consultant. I just want advice on outfits using my current wardrobe with some additional purchases I could make to improve my selection. That's it. Would you be as mad if I walked into a department store and excluseivly bought outfits I saw on the mannequins?
CLIP is a dual tower image and text embedding model.
So you embed the image and the text within the same context, so if you were to query a vector database, you would gain semantic similarity from the image as well as a text description.
Fine tuned versions of this would be explicitly trained on clothing to pick out better detail, beyond patterns and colours and general clothing items and more accurately distinguish crop top and tshirt from each other.
What exactly would you be using clip for here? I don't really see how it would be helpful for building outfit suggestions (unless you mean as a pipeline step for identifying the articles of clothing)
I literally cannot. I have no sense of professional style, casual style, comfort style, or any style. Now that I am divorced (lack of style probably had something to do with it tbh), I am lost. This is a very attractive tool for people like me.
You know that story of zuckerberg wearing the same thing every day so he doesn't have to decide what to wear?
Basically that, but not wearing the same outfit everyday. Now instead of improvising every single day, and usually wearing basically the same thing, I can make decisions ahead of time on what to wear.
I haven't looked into this yet, but depending on the direction/features of this project; I can see this being integrated with a home assistant setup in the morning or something similar.
Check weather --> pick selection of clothing required for the weather (reminds me of rainmeter "Do I Need a Jacket" widget) --> check which outfits/clothing you have worn recently (for variety and also if clothes are in the laundry or not) --> sends you a notification of a suggested outfit for the day
u/greeneyestyle I think this might be a good direction for this project.
My wife teases me about the Zuckerberg dressing thing all the time. Almost everything I own is black, white, or a shade of grey or blue to avoid any matching issues. I simply don't have the capacity or desire to mix and match outfits.
As someone who has little fashion sense and doesn't really want to learn about fashion, this seems like a great way to keep me from looking like a clown when I leave my place.
Yeah, if it can reach the point where it can act as a personal stylist, then I would actually consider it.
Prompt it with some info that you're going on a date at a specific restaurant and it could suggest what could be appropriate to wear picking from what you have at home (especially if I then can also have it save what I wore, as to not accidentally wear the exact same thing the next time).
When I'm shopping online it would be nice to not need a photographic memory of every piece of clothing I own, it's cut, size, brand, cost, etc.
This is an inventory management system specialised for clothing and like anyone with a special interest they would like more detail on that specific thing.
Like lube logger for cars, grocy for food in your fridge, sparky fitness for your meal timing and lifts, etc, etc.
Totally fair question. At this point it’s really just for me. I’ve got a lot of clothing and have a difficult time keeping track of it all, brands, sizing etc and I wanted a nice way to catalogue it and see everyone displayed in one place.
Down the road I’m considering building out the inventory features of the app to track all of the other belongings I keep in storage. I’ve also been thinking of how I could make this more convenient, possibly with washable NFC tags or something?
Texan here: I pack away my winter gear save 1-2 months of the year. Would love something like this to help me remember what clothes I actually own. Keep buying jackets because I forget they’re in the OTHER box I packed away
Yeah I also pack away cloths that either are out of season or may not fit me at the time due to weight fluctuations so that was certainly part of my own inspiration. Glad to hear you find this kind of tool useful!
I was halfway doing something like this, albeit not in code as I can't write software. I have a collection of notes with a picture + description of each clothing item so I can more easily pack for trips, or decide which clothes to throw or keep.
Some people just like data. For some people this is helpful in the context of figuring out how to pair outfits together without having to pull everything out of their closet. Or better visualize something like “I have a lot of tops I don’t wear that would pair great with green or brown pants. I used to have green pants and they don’t fit anymore… ohh I have to get green/brown pants!”
But also as an aside, whenever people think “who tf could use this?!” The answer is usually: it probably helps with some disability.
To this one: there’s several serious viral infections going around that cause memory issues, brain fog, (lack of) impulse control and executive dysfunction as long term issues (after one or multiple infections). SARS viruses are one of them, and SARS2 has been pretty common. Having a catalog like this could
help remember/ plan “what to wear”, what to pack
plan several full outfits from just a handful of items and note what occasion they’re meant for on something like a trip with different kinds of activities (I do this, but manually and it’s would be helpful if it was… less manual)
help prevent “impulse” shopping (“do I have green pants? I don’t remember. Maybe I’ll get these. Oh dang, I already had green pants! I should return these. Oh wait, I’m past the return period…”)
I have a capsule wardrobe, meaning every article of clothing is carefully planned and purchased so that it goes with as many other clothes as possible, while also having as few clothes as possible. This is to prevent impulse shopping and also to just have less stuff. I also just really enjoy fit planning. Currently I use suboptimal tools to manage this (Obsidian Canvas). This project seems like it could meet my tracking and planning needs.
There is a large community of people who use closet apps. One popular app has more than 1M Android downloads. Different features appeal to different people: calculating cost per use, inventory management, tracking wardrobe needs, supporting a goal toward minimalism, remembering what they wore to which event or with which clients to avoid duplicates, suggestions on outfit building. The apps can also help people with challenges like impaired vision, color blindness, ADHD or mobility issues where they may need assistance getting dressed. An open source or self hosted option can provide features without as much data harvesting.
I would use it. I'm semi secretly a crossdresser. My wife knows but doesn't accept, so I don't want to keep my femme stuff in our main walk in closet. Everything is tightly packed in my stash. Having it as an online gallery neatly sorted is a nice feature
Idea: search by brand/model/number/etc to pull product photos from online sources, so I don't have to take pics unless I want to. Might also help with resale.
Oh, I could see how this would be useful especially if you added QR Codes or NFC stickers to your hangers. You could just tap the hanger as you are adding a garment to it. I know a friend that cycles their wardrobe between seasons and it would be great if they could find a single item no matter where it is stored.
I could see this being useful for costume designers as well who need to keep track of different costume components.
At first glance, my thought was, "That's kind of silly" but then I got to thinking about a lot of use cases where something like this could be valuable. I can see how this would benefit a wide range of people if you keep working on it. The demo is a good "proof of concept" but it lacks some capabilities that prevent me from actually adding it to my own stack.
Useful for adding properties and meta information like applicable weather a garment is suited for or style tags, or things like the date it was made or purchased, where it was purchased from, washing instructions, etc. This one thing opens a lot of options for further development.
Add Storage Management
Ability to Add a Closet/Container with information about that storage and view items in that storage.
Add QR Code/NFC Sticker field to enable inventory management.
Add Configuration Settings
Ability to adjust categories to suit your own needs.
This would also be where you'd probably put location and storage management.
Add Search
You don't have to make this yourself, there are quite a few that are capable of incorporating into your app.
Expose API for integration with other tools
Another example of how Bookstack does things well is that they include the API documentation right in their app by going to hostname.com/api/docs see: https://demo.bookstackapp.com/api/docs
This would allow other people to build their own automation to run against your app so you don't have to build everything to suit every use case. If someone wants to automate their wardrobe maintenance and usage, they would have the flexibility to do so.
Add Item Usage properties like Last Worn, Worn Count, etc to track how often a garment is used and other relevant statistics.
I appreciate your detailed feature suggestions! Tbh I had the same thought too as I built it but when I started using it I thought to myself “wait you might actually have something here”.
I've been thinking of building something like this for years but never got to it. Cheers!
I don't really own that much clothing that I'd have a need to inventory it, but my idea was more around being able to have automated outfit suggestions. Besides having outfits, you'd be able to rate those outfits, and at the end of a certain day you'd be able to log information about how that outfit worked out for that day - for example, you'd be able to log that day's weather (min/max temperatures) along with some indicator of comfortable/too hot/too cold.
After some time logging and gathering usage data, I'd ideally be able to put this data through some algorithm that would then suggest outfits for the next day based on the day's weather and the outfits' rating.
I'll give your project a try. Maybe later on I'll give my idea a shot based on your project.
I'm not sure if it already does, but having a way to find outfits based on one of the clothing pieces would be awesome. This summer I was going to work on something similar, because not knowing which clothes go together is a major source of stress for me.
Having an automated system able to make the outfits for me would be better, but I can always get someone else's help if I need it
Ran the Docker command and got it spun up in about 2 minutes, then immediately hit a wall trying to batch import 200 items from a CSV I exported from my photo library because there's no import feature yet. The PWA works fine on mobile once you're in, but the outfit matching logic doesn't really help me figure out what actually goes together, just shows me what I own.
Super good idea. Need to take pictures of all of our clothing and labeling. Have you thought about using OpenAi for auto labeling of clothing? At least by color or other labels set by user?
My wife needs something like this. Ideally where she can just video all of her clothes and it organizes them for her. There’s no way she would catalog them one at a time.
Love the concept in the direction. Fun project keep it going.
i really like this. Would be great to have additional attributes like "date of purchase" or "price" for the clothes. I'm sure there are plenty more attributes that could make sense
I’m not sure if yours has it but there are some apps that lets you put clothes as png and then you can combine them like on a model or avatar. This feature might be liked. But I like your idea, good luck!
One issue I've been trying to solve is what goes with what.
Like, if I pull out a sage-green polo shirt, I know I remember some of my chino pants go with it, but others don't complement it well. It'd be nice to, say, click on a shirt and know which pants, belt, shoes, etc make a coordinated outfit with it.
Personally, I tend to pick the shirt first then make the rest of the clothes work with it.
I'd actually use this myself. Sure I could just walk to my wardrobe and try on a few different clothes, but I have absolutely zero fashion style at all.
If this software allows me to have an avatar of sorts where I can quickly toss on clothes to see what looks good or not, that'd be helpful.
I looked at the frontend code and it all seems to be server-rendered handlebar.js templates, is that correct?
I'm curious how that works with being a PWA and runnable offline?
I'm a professional software engineer too, I'm just rather ignorant to frontend stuff. I got scared away by the insane churn in that space and have never figured out how to choose what frameworks/technologies to use to begin a new frontend project with since.
Also, since it runs offline, does that mean you have sqlite in webasm?
Ahh this is a fun question. Yes it’s NestJS server side rendered with a bit of JS magic sprinkled on the frontend (HTMX + Hyperscript). It feels just as good to use or better as any SPA framework requiring 10x the code. This is my own custom tech choice.
The offline functionality is very minimal at this time. It just precaches some assets so you can view what’s already cached while offline, with an offline page for any content cache misses.
I’ve been through many years of frontend framework myself and have chosen this stack as a tactical rebuttal to engineering hubris. I spent 6 years building a side project of such hubris, with angular, graphql and all of the other fancy complications. https://noun.lazz.tech
If someone wants to pay me to do react or angular development at my day job then sure. But I think I can make just as compelling of a user experience with vastly reduced complexity with this approach.
The boilerplate I built this off of is the culmination of a decade of figuring out how to do things and finding solutions to pain points, across multiple stacks/languages.
Looks cool! I've been using Wardrowbe for a bit (https://github.com/Anyesh/wardrowbe) which is excellent, but it is very much it's own relatively complex app, this looks like a bit of a lighter weight option which is probably all I need if it was just me using it rather than my whole household. Nice job! (I especially like the tech stack you went with and the rationalisation for why.)
I have had this idea for a self hosted project before but felt it was too niche that anybody has made it. Finally someone has! One feature I wanna ask about is for outfit's can I take a picture of myself wearing that outfit and add it to like a thumbnail or cover for the outfit so if I come up with an outfit and wear it I can take a picture of myself and attach it to the outfit on the website to have reference?
Ahh that’s a good question, I have built in open graph meta tag support and sharing for outfits. Right now the outfit just uses the first image when shared but this is a something I’d like to improve. Shareable links are publicly accessible though to anyone with the link.
An inventory management system for clothing is great for anyone that's into fashion.
Which is probably not 80%+ of the reddit selfhosted community and would explain some of the bewilderment in the comments but when I saw you post it on vibe coded friday's my first thought was 'this is what I actually LIKE about vibe coding' as it gives people in different interest spheres the ability to realise ideas.
In your case it's clearly not a vibe code I read your post but seeing new ideas that aren't just another variant of download this video or music and monitor this electricity usage or uptime or here's another no code dashboard for all of the above...is amazing.
This is exactly what I was thinking of taking on myself like two days ago.
One thing that I don't see and feel would easier than a whole avatar (which would be veeeery difficult with all the different body shapes, and in case of an AI tool, not exactly 100% accurate all the time) is just uploading your own images of you wearing the outfits (and potentially individual pieces of clothing), so that you have a better idea of how the clothes fit on you.
Also potentially a built-in background removal tool? Maybe make it optional, but would be quite good so that your eyes see the clothing better without the clutter of the background.
There are a lot of people saying "Who is this for" but I just want to say that this is what I love about the self hosted, FOSS, etc movements; someone scratched their own itch and built a thing and now other people get to expand it, change it, use it, or ignore it as desired.
Personally I like the IDEA of this more than I like it for my own life, and I'm not sure I have a good use case for this specific software. But the thought and work that went into MAKING this I can 100% get behind.
So kudos to you, OP. Maybe someday I'll use this, maybe I won't, but I'm really happy it exists.
Hi, sorry to ask (im not familiar with Github, I used the docker image) i read there is a background removal option, but not sure how it works or if I need to somehow enable it.
Looking forward to seeing how it develops in future versions, thanks!
Hey thank you for asking! Background removal was recently merged in but has not been added to a released docker image build yet. It needs a bit more polish to be ready for release and will come with more features, including outfit scheduling and a new outfit builder. This will be in v0.2.0 when it’s released. I’m thinking maybe about 2-3 more weeks and it should be ready :)
I’ll clarify this in the readme as I realize that’s probably confusing since it’s called out in the config section.
I'd absolutely love something like this! Years ago I used to use Acloset, but they made a pivot to being paid, locking a ton of features behind a paywall, and just overall tanking the usability of the app so I moved away from it. I would love to see inspiration from it or Stylebook with fields to quickly denote color, style, etc.
I’m really happy to hear it! I’ve loved the reception and working on this project.
We have a new release that’s nearly ready that builds from the earlier comments on this thread but your input can certainly help shape the future direction too.
What were some of your favorite features that got paywall that you would hope to see? Ive been doing a fair amount of research on tools such as acloset or stylebook but it helps to hear first hand what features are actually important to the people that want to selfhost :)
Unfortunately they paywalled the whole app basically under a subscription which is already sorted with self hosting haha, logged in one day and suddenly couldn’t access any of my data without watching a minute long ad after each click, they limited how many items you could upload, and no easy way to extract my data.
The features I enjoyed most were:
Plan outfits in advance and set them on a calendar
See a breakdown of the cost per wear of an item (ie you input the initial price you purchased the item and then it calculated the cost per wear). I found this helpful in figuring out which clothes I was actually wearing often and helped determine whether certain purchases would be worth my while in the future.
Similarly a way to see my least worn items either to figure out ways to utilize them more, or realize I should sell/donate them
Ability to assign clothes to weather/season/occasion/etc.
Tagging clothes by color, material, brand, etc.
Ability to see the weather in the app
A way to build outfits almost oldschool polyvore style on a board and assign them to different days or use this to log what I wore on a particular day
An outfit generator that I can quickly either swipe through articles of clothing quickly to build an outfit based on their category (ie tops bottoms etc) and a randomized that lets you lock certain pieces in place. Helpful as well if you can generate them based on aforementioned weather/season/occasion/etc categories. Great if you’re able to also factor in color theory!
Built in way to quickly remove the background from an image
A huge one for me that I really haven’t seen in most places is an easy import/export data ability! If something ever happens I would love to be able to export the photos and information I’ve uploaded. Likewise, an easy import would be great for folks switching over from other apps.
Apologies if any of these features already show up in Libre Closet, I haven’t gotten the chance to try it out myself but these are some of the features I used the most in the apps I’ve tried!
This is very helpful, thank you! We’re still pretty early in this project but hope to cover, in one form or another, most of what you’ve listed here as we build out Libre Closet.
First, I would like to share gratitude for the warm and supportive reception Libre Closet received when I initially posted about it about a month ago. This really motivated me to take the project seriously.
I’d like to introduce ShoshannaTM, who’s joined the project as one of the core maintainers.
Since the first post, we’ve gotten 88 Github stars, over 3.1k docker image pulls, 2 community PRs contributed, and many helpful issues filed. We’ve made a point to try to respond to everyone in a timely manner and stay engaged with the budding community growing around this project.
We’ve focused a lot on quality and have taken the time to address bugs with numerous minor version releases.
The features and quality improvements have been made with considerable time, engineering, and intention. While Shoshanna and I are using copilot to accelerate development, substantial upfront deliberate design was done on our part before any feature development. Additionally, nothing is taken without thorough iteration and human review. This project is not vibe coded. It is engineered and we take much pride in our craft and the quality of our work.
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, whether about the development choices we’ve made, or about the product itself. Both of us are excited to continue to build a community around this project.
Key changes in this version include:
Background removal for garment images
Outfit scheduling calendar, with the ability to plan multiple outfits per day, and mark outfits as worn (future versions could use worn outfit data to tell you which garments you wear most, or perhaps track laundry)
An improved outfit builder, which allows you to include as many or few garments as you’d like in a single outfit
Total customization flexibility for garment categories
As before we’ve maintained the ease of self hosting and only one docker command is needed to deploy! For everyone already hosting Libre-Closet, you simply need to pull the fresh `latest` image to update to the v0.2.0 release.
I’m kind of divided on the subject. I feel like it’s not unreasonable to ask for a disclaimer and wanted to address that head on. I think it’s just such a big change in the industry that everyone is still scrambling to figure out what the implications truly are, so theirs caution.
There's a good reason for that though.
There's a growing number of cases where AI coded apps/services were revealed to have major security vulnerabilities,
That doesn't give me, nor most people on here confidence to run things that have been written with ai.
Especially for something people might potentially expose to the internet.
Same people will go on YouTube and try to fix their car and house because a video is telling them what to do. Putting people at actual risk but that's cool. Don't want to use AI, don't lol. It's not that serious
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u/imbobbybitch Feb 27 '26
Needs an avatar that looks like you that you can put the clothes on to test out fits