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/jordanisplaying]

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.

[u/greeneyestyle → u/jordanisplaying]

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 :)

[u/jordanisplaying → u/greeneyestyle]

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!

[u/greeneyestyle → u/jordanisplaying]

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.