Focused Tool · Apache 2.0 · Single Binary · Creator & Marketing

Self-hosted community forum

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

Install Watering Hole Free Complete — all 164+ tools — 14-day free trial

Replaces

Replaces Discourse hosting ($100/mo).

Discussion threads, voting, categories, user profiles. Discourse without the $100/mo hosting. A focused community space on your own infrastructure. Your data lives in a SQLite file on your disk that you can back up by copying a folder, move to another machine, or query directly with any SQLite tool. The binary keeps running if Stockyard disappears tomorrow, because it is Apache 2.0 and you have a copy.

Quickstart

Running in under a minute.

Stockyard runs on desktops and laptops. To install, open this page on your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer.

Download for Mac macOS 11+ · Universal

Download for Windows Windows 10/11 · 64-bit

Download for Linux .tar.gz · Any distro

After install, open http://localhost:9050 in your browser.

Advanced: install via terminal instead

curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --tool wateringhole

Single binary. Embedded SQLite. No Docker. No database. No dependencies.

Pricing

14 days free. Pro when you need it.

Free

forever

50 users, 5 categories
Single binary, embedded SQLite
Apache 2.0 — modify freely

Pro

$7.99

per month

Unlimited users and categories, SSO, custom domain, moderation tools
License key, no cloud dependency
Email support

After you upgrade

License key by email. One env var.

Your license key arrives by email within 5 minutes of checkout. Set it as an environment variable and restart the binary.

export STOCKYARD_LICENSE_KEY=SY-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
./wateringhole

No cloud connectivity required. The binary validates the key offline with Ed25519 signatures.