Homebox is an inventory management system in the same vein as Snipe-IT, but purpose built to be simpler and cause less friction so that you’re more inclined to enter things and keep them up to date. You can use it for things like storing user guides, warranty contracts and expirations, and even expense tracking related to the maintenance and repair of any home items, like appliances and electronics. I use it to store warranty expirations for things like game consoles and TVs, as well as remind me to order new air filters for the home.

So, I used Homebox for a few days now. I like the simplicity of it and I like the direction they're going. However, there are quite a few bugs and data loss issues, it's not ready for production yet. The thing is, these issues should be so easy to fix (it's a simple CRUD app) that it makes me doubt the dev skills and possibility of other issues I haven't discovered yet.

• The purchase date just increments or decrements by one day after editing an item
• When editing an item the notes/description fields show the data from the previously edited item, causing you to overwrite data

These two issues alone made me go back to my spreadsheet for now (good thing I kept a backup). I simply don't trust the app to keep my data intact.

Unfortunate name collision with another project related to self-hosting: https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox

The website could use one or two screenshots of important features without having to login to the demo.

Painting the window is noticeably slow (Firefox ESR 102), have you tested it with Firefox?

Other than that, well done! It looks good and well maintained. I wanted to evaluate Snipe-IT someday, maybe I will also give this a try

This looks amazing. I've been looking for a replacement for Delicious Library for a long time and this looks like exactly what I've been looking for.

Yeah this is right up my alley. Can't wait to install this and document everything.

I am very paranoid about security, so is there a reason you deter people from using this application in a Docker container per your website?

This is super cool! The giant OCD nerd inside is going to go nuts while cataloging my entire home.

Dude, this is sick AF. I deployed snipe IT and found it was just too much. I can’t wait to try this out!

it's so pretty, i'm going to install this RN

This sounds so cool

Not sure if it is inside the scope of the project, but does it also have an API?

Put this on my list of projects to dig into when I have time. I briefly tried Grocy a while back thinking I may be able to use it for inventory mgmt, but it didn't stick. I want to say I found some other self hosted home inventory project at one point but didn't stick with that one either. It's one of those things that I think you have to really invest in to get ROI back, but that's hard to do, especially when it's more than just yourself (wife-factor) planning to utilize it that also has to buy-in and commit.

Thx for sharing!

Seems neat. I wish there were a way to add custom fields; I would totally use this to keep track of my liquor cabinet contents. (I use a spreadsheet for this now.)

I know it's not the general use case this though, but that didn't keep me from getting my hopes up haha.

Ok