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Watering Hole

Self-hosted community forum

Watering Hole dashboard mockup
Dashboard preview — watering hole running on your own machine
What it does

Discussion threads, voting, categories, user profiles. Discourse without the $100/mo hosting. A focused community space on your own infrastructure.

Replaces Discourse hosting $100/mo
Stockyard Watering Hole $7.99/mo · self-hosted · your data
What you get

Unlimited users and categories, SSO, custom domain, moderation tools. Self-hosted on your hardware, no usage caps, no phone-home, your data stays on disk forever.

Install
Terminal · macOS / Linux / Windows
curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/install/wateringhole.sh | sh

One ~13MB binary. No Docker, no dependencies, no background daemons.

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