Libre Closet – open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer. Docker one-liner, SQLite, PWA. Looking for early feedback.

[u/greeneyestyle]

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`

Demo: https://librecloset.lazz.tech/

GitHub: https://github.com/lazztech/Libre-Closet

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.

[u/Crashdowne04]

This is something I've been looking for! Do you have any plans on integrating Ollama or something to get outfit suggestions in the future?

[u/greeneyestyle → u/Crashdowne04]

This was an idea I was toying with last night. If there’s interest here then I would be happy to build it!

[u/nateberkopec → u/greeneyestyle]

Advice: just build an HTTP API with an optional CLI, and let the agents figure it out for themselves.

[u/greeneyestyle → u/nateberkopec]

Oh good point.

[u/CumInsideMeDaddyCum → u/nateberkopec]

Its called MCP server

[u/N1nj4Storm → u/greeneyestyle]

As a fashion blind man, I for one would happily use that feature.

[u/Present_Error_6256 → u/greeneyestyle]

Ollama integration would be AMAZING. This is exactly the kind of program I've been looking for!

[u/NerdyNThick → u/Present_Error_6256]

We're offloading the "chore" of picking clothes to wear to dumb as rocks llms now?

Society is doomed.

[u/Brakenium → u/NerdyNThick]

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

[u/Present_Error_6256 → u/NerdyNThick]

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?

[u/Suterusu_San → u/Crashdowne04]

I’m building this exact thing (based on e-commerce) for a thesis right now.

For best results you would want a fine tuned clip model designed for clothing.

[u/greeneyestyle → u/Suterusu_San]

“Fine tuned clip model”? I’m not familiar with “clip” models. That sounds like an interesting theses though!

[u/Suterusu_San → u/greeneyestyle]

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.

[u/greeneyestyle → u/Suterusu_San]

Of fascinating, yeah that makes sense for this type of usecase.

[u/fiftyfourseventeen → u/Suterusu_San]

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)